Genghis Khan – Lessons in Leadership and Management 3
Genghis Khan surrounded himself with people that had two characteristics i.e. they were brilliant in their own right and they were loyal . . . . . . . . . Loyalty is not a strategy. If people continually do business with you you cannot give them a customer card and call it a ‘loyalty more »
Genghis Khan – Lessons in Leadership and Management 2
In business people want to be led; they appreciated and value leadership . . . . . . . . . They will buy into being led if the leader is confident and has a clear direction and strategy; it is better to be led (and make some personal and probably superficial compromises) than not more »
Genghis Khan – Lessons in Leadership and Management 1
Management Structure Genghis Khan had a unique chain of command . . . . . every man was an officer who could make a decision. Unlike his enemies who had a centralized command system of ‘do, stop, wait’, his army was broken into hierarchical groups of units who independently could exploit any opportunity that came more »
Business Lessons from Genghis Khan
As an entrepreneur I have benefited for lessons of leadership and business from Genghis Khan . . . . . . . . . . I love stories of successful leaders like Genghis Khan. He conquered ¾ of the known world in 1215. I find his strategies useful for my business LIVEOUTLOUD South Africa.
FNB – 20 cents well invested
When I was 5 years old I accompanied my Dad to FNB to do some banking . . . . . there something happened that resulted in me becoming a loyal FNB client, even 25 years later.
Technology, Leadership and Management 2013 – Part two
Leadership and Management with technology . . . . . . . . . . Technology is the fastest growing luxury sector in the market today. This is where the big money is being spent. This can mean a state of the art home entertainment system or even a diamond studded cell phone. The savvy business leader or manager more »
Business Leadership and Management 2013 – Part one
NOW 2013 is the time to lead . . . . . . . . . . Did business leaders actually ‘lead’ from 2008 to 2012? I think not! On the contrary, we were led by the numbers and by circumstances. We were reactive. We adapted or we died. This period for business leaders and managers was more »
Social networking
You don’t recognize the number . . . do you answer your phone? . . . . . . . . . many don’t because because if the number is not stored inside their phone they don’t know the caller i.e. the caller is not part of their social network i.e. what the Ben Stiller movie calls the “inner circle more »
Title exempt Accountability driven
There is an old saying, “Too many chiefs and not enough Indians” . . . . It arrived at the Live Out Loud door, coughed, spluttered and fell down stone dead. We observed a moments silence for the death of this old adage and then got on with the business of running our company. For more »
The First or The Only
LIVEOUTLOUD South Africa has a value – we are the First or we are the Only . . . . For us this is a differentiating factor. Within the South African context we do not clone. LIVEOUTLOUD is not a rip-off brand. You heard it first from us, you saw it first with us or more »
Your story is not the only story
We love to think that ours is the biggest story on the block . . . This is not so. I am humbled by the awesome businesses I come into contact with from all over Africa.
The LIVEOUTLOUD South Africa Team
LIVEOUTLOUD South Africa is a leader in the luxury brands market in South Africa The LIVEOUTLOUD Team is not lip service . . . It is politically correct for every leader to acknowledge his team; its a cliché. Yet I can honestly say that the LIVEOUTLOUD Group is were it is today because of team more »
