What a revelation. After all these years – no – decades; I had thought: maybe I’m stupid. At school, they told me I was lazy, so I compensated by working like a demon. That didn’t help enough, so maybe I really wasn’t all that bright; maybe that’s why I battled to succeed. To confuse me […]
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AND THERE WAS NO excuse for it. I knew what was happening, but I put my business at risk, and I put my family at risk. It had nothing to do with taking entrepreneurial chances; it was just reckless thoughtlessness. It went against all the sensible advice that I give to my small enterprise clients.
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REMEMBER THE STORY about the ships that arrived in the new world, but the locals could not see them because ships were a phenomenon totally unknown to their minds? Sometimes we just can’t accept unbelievable news. People are known to have denied having been given a cancer diagnosis because their minds couldn’t accept it. Today, many
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[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The world is changed by those who think differently How do you know if you are an entrepreneur? There are several widely-accepted traits, one of which is that they adapt to change, and see opportunities in challenges. The renowned author, salesman, and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar says: “When obstacles arise, you
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[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Each morning, he arrived at work at 5:30, opened up, tidied up after last night’s class, marked the assignments that had been handed in, prepared for the day’s lessons and filled the water cooler.
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In the 2014 SME Survey, South African entrepreneurs said that the thing that kept most of them awake at night was managing finances. CNBC Africa reported that a major challenge experienced by small businesses was difficulty in accessing funding. Neither of these are the F-words that I am referring to here. They can frequently be
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