In this issue: • Building Relationships • Food Sector is Thriving • Don’t believe everything you read – recovery is imminent • Better times ahead for Civil Engineering • BOOK REVIEW: Shoe Dog By Phil Knight Hiring for Success Issue 15

Burned out from the experience of starting and running two entrepreneurial ventures, David Niu decided he need to recharge. He coined a new word to describe the journey that he, his wife and his 10-month-old would be taking: a ‘careercation.’ During the trip, he interviewed 30 entrepreneurs to gain more insight into his own experience […] more

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history – Friedrich Hegel This is perhaps one of the most alarming books on the current state of the world to have come out in recent years. To set the scene, the authors describe in chilling detail how Zimbabwe went from 20% […] more

Reid Hoffmann is the celebrity co-author of this book, The Alliance, which points to a changing employment landscape. Gone are the days of life-long employment. In its place is a more flexible and transient arrangement. Hoffmann, by the way, is the founded of LinkedIn. He previously worked with Apple and Paypal before launching LinkedIn. He […] more

Good to Great is not a new book, but it’s a timeless classic for those who want to understand alchemy of business success.  Collins defines greatness as financial performance several multiples better than the market average over a sustained period. He distils the recipe for greatness down to a single axiom: find what you’re good […] more

South Africa’s official unemployment rate is 25%. Right? Well, what if that is wrong. What if it is actually as low as 11%? Les Owen in the Independent looks at a new book entitled South Africa @ 20: For Better or for Worse? which explodes some of the myths about SA. It kicks off by looking at […] more

Apple co-founder, the late Steve Jobs, was both an artist and a business visionary. He succeeded in making “a dent in the universe” as he many times promised he would. Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is one of the most widely read of any modern business leader. Business students have scoured these pages looking for […] more

Book Review: Losing It! Behaviors and Mindsets that Ruin Careers: Lessons on Protecting Yourself from Avoidable Mistakes, by Bill Lane  Bill Lane was the speech writer for Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. This hardly qualifies him to dispense cutting edge business advice, but he does offer some fascinating insights into the moral and […] more