How do you tell if a business idea is a bad one? Google does not want to tell you which business ideas during the time of COVID-19 are bad ideas. I tried to ask. It turned up 224 000 000 results in 0.32 seconds.
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It is the year 2030…
A Whale-bus as a means to cross the Atlantic! Certainly some of the future predictions made by the French commercial artist Jean-Marc Côté and his team at the 1900s World’s Fair ‘Exposition Universelle’ were strange, indeed! The same can be said for the predictions made by many futurists throughout the ages.
Retirement: what you should know and what you can do about it
The thought of getting old leaves many of us cold. We use euphemisms like Golden Years and Senior Citizens and Mature to make it sound appealing, but there is no getting around the fact that ageing is generally painful. But here you are, brave and ready to get ready for it!
On being Shiny and New – the CV Blues of the Young Ones
Many people apply for jobs that they are not in any way, shape or form appropriate candidates for. Just don’t! It won’t help – you will be rejected and all the time and money you spent will be wasted.
The Finance Minister has spoken – extraordinary measures, monies and circumstances
The passage of time seems to be such a fractured thing right now and it isn’t going to stop being so any time soon. As a country, we are bracing ourselves for the cresting of the Corona wave.
Preparing in life for what is to come thereafter – investing in life insurance
Writing a definitive thesis on the subject of Life Cover will take us at least 50 pages. World events, such as COVID-19, continuously influence the development of new legislation and policy options. Your needs may change in multiple areas of your life. Your financial advisor will have your back.
Talking about Death and Dying – this is not the movies
There are as many movies about funerals and the aftermath thereof as there are genres of movies! There is a favourite cinematography device that can be applied, again, to most genres. The church and graveyard scenes fade. The next day the family arrives (separately) at very official-looking offices. Nobody makes eye contact. There are a lot of awkward silences. The executor of the estate walks in. The camera pans slowly over the faces of the prospective heirs. This is the moment of truth: the Reading Of The Will …
Looking at the end from the beginning – planning for when you are no longer around
Nobody wants to talk about death and dying, especially when no-one is dead or dying. It may sound flippant when it is put this way, but it is the truth. If COVID-19 has done one thing, it has made us face our human frailty, our mortality.
The ‘new normal’ that still seems so foreign and what the fourth industrial revolution has to do with it
The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings technologies that blur the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres across all sectors. It brings about boundary-busting disruptions that will change the world of work as we know it
Undoing lockdown – levels of strategic thinking
Entrepreneurs are doers. They see a gap, a need, a problem and they react. Often, things build momentum and somewhere in the future they find themselves running a business. Most business do not fail because they are built on bad ideas. They fail because basic planning was not done.