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Leadership Intelligence Bulletin
28 April 2010
Leadership development - Issue 21
Leadership development - Issue 21Learning 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 change
Climate changeHope shifting to Cape Town 2011

As hope has just about been abandoned by most for reaching a global, legally binding accord on the fight against climate change in December this year in Mexico, attention and anticipation are shifting already to the next (after Mexico) international United Nations conference on the subject, scheduled for 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. 

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Democracy at risk
Democracy at riskExperts look at the what and why of the future

John Kampfner from Index on Censorship, Eric Kaufmann from Birkbeck College, London, and Dominique Moisi, a founder of the French Institute of International Relation debated the global future of democracy in a particularly lively event in Jewish Book Week 2010. Ann Jungman was there.

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Disaster management
Disaster managementAre natural disasters on the increase?

A devastating series of earthquakes which occurred around the world since the beginning of this year, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and the eerie impact on global aviation of a dust cloud caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland have generated panic and speculation that there has been a dramatic increase in such natural disasters. The question on everyone’s mind is: what is going on?

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Freedom Day scorecard
Freedom Day scorecardSome solid progress with serious problem areas

This week, South Africans celebrated Freedom Day – 16 years after Nelson Mandela’s ANC won the first fully democratic elections under a fair and democratic constitution on a day of hope and promise, one the world hailed as a miracle. Sixteen years later, Jacob Zuma’s ANC is in charge. Despite substantial successes, the miracle has faded and the country is confronted by many problems, although it still cherishes some hope. Political analyst Stef Terblanche takes stock.

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UK election watch
UK election watchWhatever the outcome, uncertain times await Britain

Not since the 1970s, when first a Conservative minority government was followed after six months by a weak Labour government (eventually ousted by a vote of no-confidence) before Margaret Thatcher took over, has Britain experienced more political uncertainty as it does presently. And next week's general election seems set to increase rather than reduce that uncertainty.

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Super 14 watch
Super 14 watchReal battle ahead for local log leaders

The Bulls and the Stormers both will have to survive a Crusade and swim in Shark-infested waters if they are to secure a place in the Super 14 playoffs or semifinals. But even that may not be enough – particularly for the Stormers.

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World Cup watch
World Cup watchTournament living up to expectations

Instead of the formerly projected 483 000 foreign visitors expected for the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup in South Africa, there will be only 373 000. But they will stay an average of 18 days compared to the 14 days previously projected; and each will spend R30 200 on average, compared to the R22 000 as previously expected.

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Worth a read?
Worth a read?"The Last Empress" - champion of modern China

“Worth a read?” is not your ordinary book review; it is a meta-review. In other words, it provides an overview of the opinions contained in a variety of book reviews published in the media at large. This week we take a look at “The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China”, written by Hannah Pakula and published in 2009.

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National reconciliation
National reconciliationZuma announces national dialogue on Freedom Day

President Jacob Zuma used this year’s national Freedom Day celebration to promote his message of national unity and reconciliation in both word and deed. Not only did he repeatedly harp on this theme in his keynote address at the Freedom Day festivities at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, but in an unprecedented reconciliatory move also invited national leaders of all the opposition parties in parliament to share the stage with him and address the large crowd.

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