The Purpose Of A Business Is To Create A Sale
If you know Peter Drucker, then the title of this post might seem slightly off? Drucker is well known for saying: The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer I wondered about these two ideas the other day, and concluded that it’s an important choice for a...
You can’t know how to be Creative, Disruptive or Innovative
Ever since I first read a book about innovation and how to bring innovation into a business, I was suspicious. And I have remained suspicious, no matter how many I read, or how smart the author. My suspicion is rooted in my own experience of creativity, disruption and...
You Leave Digital On The Outside At Your Own Folly
If you travel along the N3, from either Durban or Jozi, and take the Winterton off-ramp, you’ll find yourself about 40 minutes away from Champagne Castle Hotel. Not to be confused by a resort with a similar name, in the Champagne Valley with a golf course....
What To Do About South Africa’s 2016?
What to do, what to do? 2016 has arrived, and what a terribly difficult year it’s expected to be for South Africans. China is in a slump. Emerging markets are taking a beating. Our President made some reckless decisions with regard to our Finance Ministry. Go to...
Hacking Education and Most Other Things
A Tedx talk from 2013. You’re bound to have seen it. If you haven’t it’s worth a watch. When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal. While the...
Nature Has a Voice
Wow. Mother Nature has a voice. In fact, nature has a few voices, and by human standards they’re pretty powerful. Conservation International has a new campaign called “Nature is Speaking” and as Mother Nature (Julia Roberts is Mother Nature) says in...
Now We’re 3D Printing Food #FutureNow
During March, in a post entitled Are you ready for 3D Printed Aircraft Engines?, I ended the post with this… I’m not certain we fully appreciate just what an impact 3D printing will have in our world? It’s far more extensive than we currently imagine. The world...
Your Brain and the Checker Shadow Illusion #theCrayonProject
There’s a video embedded below. You can watch it before you read this, or you can read this before you watch it. Either way, what you see will still leave you a little dazed as to how that just happened, right in front of your eyes? Well not right in front of...
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