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Leadership Intelligence Bulletin
11 October 2011
Cloud computing
Cloud computingPrivate cloud - addressing users' concerns

Delivering IT services from the cloud is not a new concept, but has become a hot topic in recent years - particularly in South Africa - as improved bandwidth capacity and pricing has enabled businesses to leverage the many benefits of cloud computing. Delivering services from the cloud is touted as being far more affordable, because of the flexibility of the pay-per-user model, which enables such services to be instantly and easily scalable, writes Paul Fick.

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Changing face of war
Changing face of warThe drone-war blowback

A greater focus on pilotless armed drones as an instrument of war by the United States and its allies raises questions of political cost as well as law and morality, writes Paul Rogers as part of a series for openDemocracy.

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Electricity woes
Electricity woesPrice and capacity restraints cost SA dearly

Severe increases in South African electricity tariffs and the failure to generate sufficient electricity to meet demand are literally putting the country out of business. It is also posing a serious threat to the aims of the government’s New Growth Path (NGP) economic growth strategy -- as illustrated by plans to shift the construction of a ferrochrome smelter from Rustenburg in North-West province to China because Eskom could not provide sufficient power until 2018.

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Financial crisis
Financial crisisGetting South Africa's defences in place

With the world’s economy, on the back of a looming financial crisis threatening from Europe, in what IMF-boss Christine Lagarde calls a dangerous new phase, anticipation is building for South African minister of finance Pravin Gordhan’s annual Medium-term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in parliament later this month.

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Football watch
Football watchIgnorance of Caf rules trips up BafanaBafana

Pitso Mosimane got one thing right on Saturday night. He said he felt like he had failed the nation as Bafana Bafana missed out on qualifying for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Yes, Pitso, you did exactly that. You failed the nation, simply through a lack of professional planning.

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Labour Watch
Labour WatchThe good, the bad and the uncertain...

 The labour scene remains of paramount importance in South Africa, affecting just about everything from politics to economics, social issues or even national security. Right now it is a mixture of the good, the bad and the not so sure, with the “good” being a widely hailed revolutionary wage deal in the clothing and textile sector.

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Out of Africa
Out of AfricaBeware, a youngster is coming for your job...

It is the time of the youth. Across Africa and the world the youth are marching. In business and in politics young people are demanding their place in the sun. Take for instance Lindiwe Mazibuko, the young national spokesperson of South Africa’s major opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA). She announced last week she would be challenging for a senior leadership position in her party, citing the youth factor as her motivation.

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Piracy
PiracySouthern Africa under growing threat

The United Nations celebrated World Maritime Day on 29 September by highlighting the growing scourge and rising cost of piracy and asked for a concerted international effort to confront the threat. In the meantime piracy seems to be on the increase with Africa the most attractive area for operations.

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Political economy
Political economyA changed world is emerging

Globally the political economic structure as the world has known it over the last four decades or so seems not only set for fundamental restructuring, but the process has already started. What in immediate recent history came to be known as the Arab Spring is starting the shape-up to a winter of discontent for the developed world and with even echoes in planned actions of South Africa’s ANC Youth League.

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Rugby WC watch
Rugby WC watchDawn of a new era for the Boks?

The journey is over for Peter de Villiers and the Springbok team of 2011, whose magnificent obsession with a second successive Webb Ellis Trophy ended in despair after Australia recorded a nail-biting 11-9 victory in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup. Maybe for the class of 2011 it was a question of a bridge too far.

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The rule of law
The rule of lawSouth Africa not the only battleground

The fierce debate that has been raging in South Africa about the supremacy of the country’s Constitution, the role of an independent judiciary and its relationship to the executive is not unique to this country. In the United Sates a senior politician is even suggesting that president Barack Obama might be open to impeachment for violation of that country’s Constitution and the rule of law.

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Final word
Final wordTickey - a currency that endures

Reading a news report about the England rugby team, and particularly their captain Mike Tindall, getting themselves involved in controversy at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand when they visited a pub where there was a dwarf-throwing contest on, was for me a throw-back to the days of my childhood in more ways than one.

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Leadership development - Issue 92
Leadership development - Issue 92Learning from the worlds best

With the co-operation of the The LR Management Group, we can now bring you the leadership training tool 50 Lessons, which is a powerful force in the world of corporate learning. 50 Lessons is the worlds premier multimedia business resource, offering more than 1 000 personal and authentic video lessons from internationally respected business leaders. It can assist you to increase the utilisation and return on investment of your learning programmes immediately!

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Climate watch
Climate watchEuropean climate awareness is rising

Europeans believe that the dangers of climate change represent a more serious problem than the current financial turmoil, according to a new poll, reported in The Guardian. The Eurobarometer poll suggests that the majority of the public in the European Union consider global warming to be one of the world's most serious problems, with one-fifth saying it is the single most serious problem.

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