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Leadership Intelligence Bulletin
2 November 2010
BEE's scorecard
BEE's scorecardSome fine tuning needed

Some aspects of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), one of the anchor policies of government since 1994 is in need of some fine-tuning if it is to achieve its goal of broadening the base of meaningful economic empowerment for the majority of te population. This is the main message of a just-released KPMG/ IQuad-survey.

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Cricket watch
Cricket watchRazzaq did SA a favour

It was an innings that could possibly resurrect a demoralised and beleaguered Pakistan, an innings that forced the South African selectors to cast their net wider in a desperate attempt to find two shrewd operators worthy of the accolade ‘excellent death bowler’, an innings that will rate alongside the best played in recent memory on neutral territory.

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Climate change
Climate changeRisky Climate Techno-Fixes Blocked

In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) closed its 10th biennial meeting in Nagoya, Japan with a de facto moratorium on geo-engineering projects and experiments aimed at manipulating the earth’s climate. At the same time an expert has again warned that man-made climate change has put the very foundations of human civilisation at stake.

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Democracy under threat
Democracy under threatA future from the past?

Driven by the financial and economic crisis since 2007/08, the war on terror since the terrorist attacks on American targets on 11 September 2001 and elsewhere in the world, and since the explosion on the net of what is generically called social networks, the way human societies organise themselves is undergoing fundamental changes. The very content of concepts of democracy, market economy. the rule of law and civil liberties such  the right to privacy seems to be under threat.

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Final word
Final wordAbout power

Few quotations have found more currency in modern politics than the expression power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ironically it did not originate in the context of politics in the normal sense of the word, but in the context of organised religion. In that context the mostly forgotten second leg of the expression packs an even more powerful punch.

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Springbok watch
Springbok watchNow for the grand slam

The dominance of their forwards  in the scrums, lineouts and in the collisions as well as a five-star performance by the new Springbok Patrick Lambie contributed richly to the Sharks’ victory over Western Province in the Currie Cup final  at Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday.. But now the attention shifts elsewhere.

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Terror alerts
Terror alertsAmerica's credibility deficit

As airports in the United Kingdom, some parts of Europe and in the US went on high alert after a tip-off about two suspected explosive parcels dispatched to the US from Yemen via the UK, the reaction of some commentators indicates that the US is developing a serious credibility deficit because of the way it plays the propaganda game.

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WikiLeaks
WikiLeaksWar's harvest: human cost, political gain

Initiatives around the world, for example in Bosnia and Guatemala, seek to record the details of every victim of violent conflict. The new revelations of civilian deaths in Iraq could advance a project whose wider ambition is to change warfare itself, writes Paul Rogers, a professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University in the UK.

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Worth a read
Worth a readWhat you are not told about capitalism

 “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  “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism”, written by Ha-Joon Chang and published in October 2010.

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Cabinet reshuffle
Cabinet reshuffleMore consolidation than renewal

President Jacob Zuma has reshuffled his Cabinet in what has been presented as an exercise in getting rid of dead wood and shaping up to improve delivery. But closer analysis shows that his decisions were also strongly shaped by a political agenda aimed at further strengthening and consolidating his own position and dealing with internal political problems in the ruling party.

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Leadership development - Issue 47
Leadership development - Issue 47Learning 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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