The Running Commentary

Carte Blanche (hosted by MNet) ran a story this past Sunday entitled “The Problem with Africa” and was effectively an interview with Robert Calderisi’s who has written a booked by the same title. The questions raised are pertain to whether the aid given to Africa by the world leading foreign Aid agencies, is keeping Africa [...]

I heard a rumour the other day about how much the president of the United States of America is paid versus the kind of money that is raised on the campaign trail in terms of the presidential elections. The amount I was told he earned was around R 3 000 000.00 a year. Impossible!! Why [...]

The single biggest failing in business today is the inability for organizations to deliver on client expectations. Many organizations run customer satisfaction indices which measure how “satisfied” the client has been with the organization. Ringing throughout is the desire for good news, with very little if any questions asked about how we can improve our [...]

What does Bob know about Thabo?….I have come to the conclusion that (conspiracy theorist that I am) Bob Mugabe must have some really juicy career limiting information on Thabo. What this information (dirt?!?) is, is obviously up for debate, but whenever the two of them are together, then it is all smiles and hand holding. [...]

Consumer entitlement… In one of my previous posts regarding our culture of entitlement see (our entitlement culture) I alluded to the fact that I believe that we need to move aware from feeling entitled and take on the mantle of making things happen. I, on my flight back to Cape Town this afternoon, read a [...]