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. .. 26 Mentors have stepped...
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...
Thanks to the generous invitation of logistics.meister Dean Carlson who organised the event.. coveted VIP tickets to the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit are in hand! (yup, THAT one with Gladwell and Branson on the bill – if you’re in Jo’burg you’re sure to know what I’m on about). Forgive the selfish rejoicing -sharing is one...
AT LAST! The TEDxJoburgNorth programme, launching on the 15th July 2009, will be the beginning of many more such TEDx events in the city. I’m helping to gather the forces for a city.size TED Johannesburg in November with TEDsters and fellow raving fans, under the passionate leadership of publisher Alicia Woolf [want to get the...
On the weekend of the 19th of June, 2009, about 40 South African Internet personalities will gather for a weekend of informal conversation about the South African Internet. We’ll talk about what would make it better, how to stimulate innovation locally and what role there is for a more formal industry-wide body to carry on...
Ever had that guilty fantasy about going on holiday.. and just staying away, yup, simply not going back home at the appointed hour? [Well not YOU of course, because you're a responsible member of society; with a steady job, a mortgage, staff who depend on you, family, a goldfish, a garden, a country to run,...
Cerebella is a network of ferociously-smart tech-enabled women who share their experiences & expertise to bring more bright young girls into tech and the brainier pursuits. It's also about crashing the conviction that smart can't also be sexy.
And.. to have the good taste not to take ourselves too seriously en route.
What happens if you decide tomorrow won't follow the same largely predictible script?
Is it even possible if you aren't prone to multiple personality disorder, win the lottery, fall desperately in love or somesuch outrageous turn of irreversible external circumstance is foisted upon your being?
We have a Huddlemind event in 3 weeks time [27 Nov 2008 9am - 1pm] >> for all of you who have been waiting for Dave to do a session outside of the business school. He’s teaming up with the man who started Saatchi & Saatchi’s At Play1 [interactive marketing across all media channels] division...
Nomadic Marketing1 : with its first major programme revision/evolution, is underway next week. Programme director, Dave Duarte has built a brain.friendly and immersive curriculum for delegates to engage with topics and faculty, in an unprecedented learning experience around social media that no amount of lecturing or conference style presentations could offer. One of the sexy...
Alrighty, for those of you who have an opinion on the world markets. Come test your contextual knowledge on globalization (yes, economics can be sexy AND remarkably useful to understand in a wobbling world). They’re questions slung together for the 1st year class, so it’s no in-depth analysis, but good grounding basics & worth a...
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