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Leadership Intelligence Bulletin
31 January 2012
Leadership development - Issue 105
Leadership development - Issue 105Learning 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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Final word
Final wordThe obedient parent

Fathers and mothers who feel that they have to work like slaves to sustain and serve their families, can rest assured that they are living up to the original tradition and roots of the family. It is in fact in the ancient Roman time of slaves and servants that the concept of a family originated. Some core wisdoms, or romantic notions if you wish, about families – like family values – are actually of very recent history.

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Digital media
Digital mediaThe evolution of the connected home

Over the past decade the Internet has become part of our everyday lives and connectivity more widely available at a lower cost, revolutionising the way we work, play and communicate. From when a home with an Internet connection was a rare exception, we have evolved to the point where connectivity is now the norm. As this evolution has continued, connectivity has spread from computers to mobile phones and even televisions, enabling us to use a variety of new technological advances to network entire homes into powerful content-sharing portals - the connected home, writes Khalid Wani.

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Capitalism
CapitalismA system in the dock

As the global financial system is bracing itself for yet another crisis period and a “arduous and uneven” road to recovery, warnings are mounting from many corners of the world that the system of capitalism, as it presently functions, is in dire need of some adjustment and repair if it is to survive. Increasingly political leaders are picking up on the theme, which looks likely to dominate this year’s presidential elections in the United States.

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Out of Africa
Out of AfricaThe rise of racism and xenophobia in Europe

In May 2008 dozens of foreign Africans were killed by xenophobic mobs in townships across South Africa. A shocked world reacted with outrage and condemnation. Quite rightly so, one could have said if it was not for the blatant double standards being applied. In Europe right-wing extremism, racism and religious intolerance towards Africans and Muslims, and widespread xenophobia have been on the rise in recent years.

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Money matters
Money mattersCash increasingly rivalled by plastic

The experience last week, standing behind a young girl at a supermarket cash register who was paying for an ice lolly and a roll of toilet paper, worth about R10, with a debit card, took on a new perspective when the results of Visa’s latest Global Payment Tracking Survey 2011 (GPT 2011) landed in the inbox of my email a day later. For one, we should maybe start replacing the term cash register with pay point.

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Local politics
Local politicsZille accused of stigmatising pregnant pupils

The dust has barely settled over South African opposition leader Helen Zille's suggestion that HIV-positive men who have unprotected sex with women should be charged with culpable homicide and a controversial lucky draw-competition to promote HIV/Aids testing, and she has done it again. This time the prize goes to young girls who managed to finish matric without falling pregnant. At the same time her party’s student arm chose the emotional mix of sex and race as the theme for a membership drive.

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Cricket watch
Cricket watchA season of surprises

Dangers are lurking away from home if you are ranked among the elite in test cricket. England suffered one of their most disastrous batting collapses in test history by disintegrating against the onslaughts of the spinners Abdur Rehman and Saeed Ajmal. India suffered a similar fate in a season of surprises. Perhaps South Africa’s Proteas should heed the lessons of these defeats and learn quickly as they prepare to leave their home shore.

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Gold price
Gold priceGold's bull-run set to continue

The announcement last week by United States Federal Reserve (Fed) head Ben Bernanke that interest rates will not rise until late 2014 and signaling that the Fed will be seeking inflation in the quest for economic growth, has put paid to predictions that the 11-year bull run by gold is about to end. Some observers now predict that the gold prices will jump between $600 and $800 an ounce this year.

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Rugby watch
Rugby watchMassive challenges and oddities await Coach Meyer

Two quotes by Heyneke Meyer encapsulate the focus of the new Springbok coach.

“There are two kinds of rugby – winning rugby and losing rugby and I subscribe to the first type.”  Regarding his vision for the next four years as the man at the helm of Springbok rugby: he said: “Every single game the Springboks play is extremely important, and the mission is to win every game we play. I want to see the Springboks back at number one in the world, which is where they belong.”

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Leadership
LeadershipLeadership Magazine now available on Apple's App Store

South Africa’s top award- winning business-to-business magazine, Leadership, became available for download on the Apple Store for iPads on Wednesday 25th January. The app is a free download, along with as are the the various issues of the magazine, is free to download. When downloaded, the app will offer the convenience of having automatic push notifications sent to you when a new issue is available. New issues should also be accessible from the new Apple Newsstand App.

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Clinton in West Africa
Clinton in West AfricaAbout more than just celebrating democracy

The whirlwind visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month to West Africa – t?ree countries in two days – was somewhat bizarre. Touted as a celebration of democracy it was probably much more about the long-term protection of America’s own interests – it also signified the United States’ resolve to step up its engagement with the resource-rich region hoping in the process to counter growing Chinese influence.

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Separatism
SeparatismNew life in separatist movements around the globe

For many decades separatist or secessionist groups around the world have been fighting their battles for autonomy or independence in various forums and by various means. The referendum and consequent secession last year of South Sudan as a separate sovereign nation, independent from northern Sudan, again put the spotlight on and gave new impetus to the 97 active separatist movements around the world.

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