Monthly Archives: June 2025

10 Game-Changing Leadership Books That Redefine Success in Business and Life (Forbes)

Leading a company today often feels like being dropped into rapids without a paddle. It can be challenging, but also exhilarating if you know how to navigate the obstacles. These ten leadership books deliver exactly that. Penned by executives who’ve weathered storms and entrepreneurs who’ve scaled impossible cliffs, they offer candid lessons you can immediately […]
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Men’s Health In The Workplace Is A Business Risk Hiding In Plain Sight(Forbes)

In Corporate America, you’ll rarely hear male leaders admit they “need a break” or openly ask for help. Yet behind the scenes, many high-performing men are silently burning out, neglecting their well-being, and pushing onward until something breaks. Men’s health is lagging behind that of women. As of 2023, U.S. men live, on average, 5.3 […]
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Employee support shouldn’t start at the breaking point(FC)

Too many companies offer support only after burnout hits. But building team resilience should be a strategic imperative, not an afterthought. Burnout has become an escalating crisis in the modern workplace. As many as 57% of workers experience the negative impacts of work-related stress and burnout, driven by overwhelming amounts of work, not enough resources, and economic […]
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20 Game-Changing AI Tools Every Small Business Leader Needs Now (Forbes)

Small businesses aren’t really so small; in fact, they make up around 90 percent of industry and generate close to 50 percent of global GDP. This means that while superscale giants like Amazon and Google may make headlines developing and selling AI tools, it’s often the global network of innovators, entrepreneurs and dreamers running small businesses that […]
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New GIBS White-paper title: Navigating coaching theory and practice: A guide to using leadership coaching in organisations. By Riette Ackermann & Alison Reid

Coaching is a recently developed discipline originating largelyfrom practice. However, the profession has grown immenselyover the last three decades and research in this field and itsrelated fields has become rich and widespread. Research showsthat coaching has grown from multiple bodies of knowledgeand theoretical practice and that there are a multitude ofmethodologies, frameworks, techniques, and tools […]
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If You Get This Message From Apple Or Google, It’s An Attack(Forbes)

There’s nothing a cyber criminal likes more than highly publicized events, sudden fear and a sense of urgency. And so last week’s headlines that 16 billion passwords leaked in the “largest ever data breach” hit the jackpot. That it “opened access” to Apple and Google accounts, the most prized of all, just made it all the sweeter. […]
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More women in the boardroom can lead to safer companies(FC)

Including women in corporate boardrooms does more than diversify leadership—recent research shows it can also lead to safer job sites, potentially saving companies from costly safety incidents. Companies with more women on their boards tend to have fewer workplace safety incidents—especially when these women hold positions of power within the board, according to an analysis of workplace safety […]
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South Africa leads as 17 African companies make Forbes list of world’s largest firms (BI)

For the 23rd consecutive year, Forbes has released its Global 2000 ranking, highlighting the world’s largest and most influential publicly traded companies, with South Africa accounting for the majority of Africa’s entries.Forbes released its 23rd Global 2000 ranking of the world’s largest publicly traded companies in 2025. A total of 17 African companies are on […]
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SA’s shrinking mining sector and the policies that brought us here(MoneyWeb)

After two quarters of declining production, mining is now officially in recession. The once mining-heavy JSE now hosts just 35 mining companies, seven of which have no operations in South Africa at all. In 1987, there were more than 600 listings on the JSE, with mining accounting for more than half of them. This was the […]
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As consumers embrace digital banking they’re turning their eye toward AI-powered features(FC)

The latest Digital Banking Attitudes survey by Chase, the fifth the company has conducted since 2020, shows the rise in usage. Polling 2,000 U.S. consumers between the ages of 18 and 65 in February, the survey found that 67% had used P2P payments in the past year—a significant increase from the 40% surveyed in 2020. […]
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