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Health and Safety in the workplace
Creating a safe and healthy physical space for employees and other people who routinely access your business’ premises has many benefits. For starters, it reduces productive time lost due to sick...
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Managing office politics as a small business owner
Office politics is just as likely to rear its head in a small business setting as any other that involves groups of people working together. Jockeying for power, influence, recognition and advanc...
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Starting and Growing a Small Business takes guts
Most entrepreneurs aren’t pure business people. They’re ideas people, driven by a powerful insight, powered by ambition to succeed. Think of Henry Ford, and his insight that people didn’t need fas...
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Entrepreneurship Empowerment
As an entrepreneur or aspiring entrepreneur, you need to surround yourself with positive people. You don’t have to do it alone, there are organizations that are dedicated to empowering you and you...
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Do what you love and the money will follow?
... will it really? Small business owners are usually encouraged to follow their dreams and start a business in a field they are passionate about. Making money is assumed to be a natural or logica...
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Promoting Intrepreneurship
An intrapreneur is ‘an employee who behaves like an entrepreneur, taking risks and being innovative to turn an idea into a product or service. Being an intrapreneur can be a useful strategy for b...
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Are you managing or just nagging?
Four universal truths about management: You are responsible for the performance of those that report to you. You need to take action when an employee is not delivering what is expected from them....
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How to uncover exceptional talent
When recruiting new employees business owners generally search for candidates within narrow and time-tested backgrounds. Many organizations are now finding smart ways to broaden their net without...
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Helping employees leave could be good for you
The conventional wisdom is that business owners should do everything they can to hold onto their employees for as long as possible to strengthen the skills base of the business and create stabili...
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Retrenchment as an effective business tool
According to the University of Cape Town, 4 899 firms in South Africa retrenched employees from January 2008 to January 2009, with the majority of retrenchments occurring in companies with less th...