Grey (matter) is the new black should you be looking to define your mark in a world wallowing in the happy shallows.
 
The revelation of our time, that our cerebral stuff isn’t sculpted and set early, but bendy and plastic throughout our lives, has opened a new realm of ways to stretch our brain cells out of the grasp of entropy.
 
There are a host of chemical hacks, from psychiatric drugs like Ritalin or Xanax, to street drugs that can force the brain to comply, buttressing …

Charged with creating a strong support system for one of the most progressive programmes that UCT’s Graduate School of Business offers, I’ve gathered some of the brightest, biggest-hearted people I know, to offer back their battlescars and brilliance to a small band of artists going on a powerful learning journey.
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26 Mentors have stepped up to contribute to this special programme, and I’ll introduce them as the as the journey progresses, because they deserve to be recognised. Each chosen for their particular approach to bridging business and creativity.
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For the reason that …

An extraordinary learning opportunity comes around but once a year. A very special business school programme that I am so moved by, that I support it wholeheartedly and recommend it wildly.
Back for its 3rd year: BUSINESS ACUMEN for ARTISTS
It’s a dream.manifest of Director of UCT’s GSB Executive Education, Elaine Rumboll, also a published poet and blues.singer, who realised that her fluency with business, negotiation and marketing was an exception among artists. She developed the rich curriculum for Business Acumen for Artists, lobbied to have this needed programme subsidized, and launched …