Everyone is on a journey of growth, from birth to death. The authors used their research data, to tap into the vital stages of this journey of growth from a psychological growth perspective. They linked the stages of psychological growth to self-leadership development. Additionally, they linked different stages of self-leadership development to different types and styles of leadership. For example, they found that authoritative leadership is linked to earlier stages of psychological growth, while inclusive leadership is linked to latter stages of psychological growth.

The Poetic Journey of Self-Leadership: Leadership Development along Stages of Psychological Growth is relevant to those interested in self-reflection (as it assists to assign oneself to a stage of psychological development), personal growth (as it anticipates processes to follow during one’s current stage of development), self-leadership development, as well as useful for leadership assessment by practitioners (by assigning leadership to stages of development). Additionally, from an academic perspective, the book is relevant to psychology, sociology and leadership students.

Contents include:

• Surviving: Abandonment versus overwhelment; Survival-stage leader
• Conforming: Internality versus externality; Conforming leader
• Differentiating: Social predestination; Differentiated leader
• Individuating: Guilt versus fear; Journey to individuation; Conquering complexes; Authenticity; Individuated leader
• Self-actualizing: Kintsugi; Traumas; Magical other; Self-actualised leader
• Integrating: Values; Heroes; Purpose; Integrated leader
• Serving: Servant leader

Books about leadership and poetry are mostly written from the perspective of leaders, but The Poetic Journey of Self-Leadership: Leadership Development along Stages of Psychological Growth, focuses on self-leadership development, and not the usual listing of heroic leader capabilities that must be strived for. The authors used self-reported poetry from diverse participants, and in their own voices as their main data collection source. The book presents a diversity of writing styles and topics, and makes it much wider in scope and richer than other books.

Whether you want to buy a television or a car, provide a service, file a consumer complaint or return an item to a seller, you need to know your rights under the new Consumer Protection Act …

The Consumer Protection Act has given every South African rights and obligations that up until now have not been an issue, and ignorance of the law is not a defence. This easily accessible guide explains how, among other things, the CP Act aims to:

• Promote and protect the economic interests of consumers;
• Improve access to, and the quality of, information that is necessary so that consumers are able to make informed choices;
• Protect consumers from hazards to their well-being and safety;
• Develop effective means of redress for consumers;
• and Promote and provide for consumer education.

Everyone's Guide To The Consumer Protection Act is therefore essential reading for all South Africans – every home should have one.

Written by thirty-five noted management and turnaround practitioners, consultants, and academics in South Africa, this book is based on the highly successful Wits Business School (WBS) program How to Manage a Turnaround and Corporate Renewal (MATCR). WBS was one of the first business schools in the world to introduce an executive education program in turnaround management. Many of the concepts and principles from the program can be applied to various non-business turnaround aspects of life. Therefore, the book is not only aimed at management practitioners, consultants, academics, and students, but also at staff experts, engineers, accountants, and lawyers in the private sector, municipality and trade union leaders, government, organizations linked to state structures, non-profit organizations, sporting clubs, and educational institutions.

It provides meaningful insights into the various processes of turnaround management and corporate renewal, including stages of a turnaround, rapid appraisal and detailed analysis, recovery plan development and implementation. Industry leaders evaluate aspects such as strategy, legal, the new business rescue legislation, finance, human resources, marketing, operations, stakeholder management as well as external and political factors. Tools and techniques that can be used to deal with many different turnaround challenges are explained in considerable detail, complemented by case studies written by people who have led successful turnarounds in South Africa.

This non-fiction book is about the illegal activities in the vehicle and vehicle finance industries. It is factual with hard evidence for all the statements made in the book.

The car industry has been ripping off the public regarding illegal costs that they charge. These include the so called “On-the-road-fees”, “Agents fees”, “Admin fees”, etc. There are also explanations of what goes on behind the scenes at the dealerships – date of 1st registration, which affects your insurance premium, warranty, maintenance /service plan and your eventual trade in. (A 2017 model sold as a 2018).

According to the National Credit Act and the National Consumer Act these fees are illegal. The only fees that may be charged are for registration, licensing, number plates and fuel. In addition to this, they may not make profit on 3rd party “add-ons”, like “Smash & Grab”, “VPS”, etc. which is however done. The banks are not allowed to finance these illegal fees, but do so. This exposé should be read by the whole public as these activities need to stop and the money should be returned to the customers. The book also explains how it is in the process of a Class-action suit against these industries, and they may join in to become part of this.

At this stage the authors have accumulated sufficient material for a sequel, which will be forthcoming in 2019.

Africa remains a mystery-enigma-attraction to investors, entrepreneurs and is growing on all fronts; without enough authoritative guides to the dynamics shaping the continent. Out of the top ten fastest growing economies of the world, no less than four are African – and yet the continent remains misunderstood.

There are many megatrends globally that warrant a special adaptation for the African continent, Africa Bounces Back uses case studies to show how these megatrends apply to the last economic growth frontier. The recent disruptions, including COVID-19, the changes in the US political landscape, human migration (including the surge of Africans moving to Europe), the rise of nationalism in developed countries, etc. all warrant attention in the context of what they mean for Africa as a destination of choice for investors, entrepreneurs and multinationals.

Victor Kgomoeswana has experience in two professional services firms (EY and Deloitte) – and at one of these he was instrumental in creating a knowledge resource centre for multinational clients who either had a presence in Africa and wanted to expand or those with no presence but interested in gaining insights before venturing.

He also has worked in the media since 1996 (all media, namely, print, radio, television and online) as anchor, specialist contributor, reporter, columnist, commentator – to date he still does an average of 3 interviews per week about the African continent, especially business and economic matters.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries – from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa – make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters – the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development – make up its framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised by national, global and popular forces in the development of these African cities.

Rather than locating the case studies in an exclusively African historical context, the focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-colonial history that has granted it a special place in African consciousness). These trajectories enable comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa – today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly urbanised globe – is in the thick of processes of large-scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by the case studies that make up the foundation of this publication.

South Africa is under-capitalising on its rich ways of doing business. One such way, the focus of this book, is collaboration. The collaboration approach should be promoted to the same extent that the Japanese have entrenched and exported their 'small incremental improvement' Kaizen approach.

There are many such underexplored indigenous ways of doing business in Africa. Where improvement is required in relation to development and organisational performance, the need is not so much building new capacities as discovering and implementing more strategic and effective utilisation of existing indigenous ones. And there is no need to cringe when African culture is used to inform science.

This book uses history, interviews and documentary evidence from South Africa to weave together a story, arguments and lessons about collaboration.

96% of small businesses fail within ten years -- so what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? How can you beat the statistics and create and grow a successful business? Allon Raiz challenges readers to find their entrepreneurial passion and to have the courage to stay focused and determined to find the path to business success. Raiz has made a business out of growing entrepreneurs and he knows that success is not about the business plan, it is about the drive of the entrepreneur. In Lose the Business Plan, Raiz shares the lessons he has learnt and seen others learn on the road to business success. Readers learn to recognise whether they have what it takes to follow this path and find the skills most needed for entrepreneurial success.

12 Crucial lessons on entrepreneurship; offering a fresh perspective, savvy advice and practical measures to put into place.

The journey of an entrepreneur means being a risk-taker, a visionary, a leader, a pit bull and essentially a superhero all rolled into one. Nevi Letcher found herself doing this. She worked her way up in corporate, invested in her personal development and climbed the ladder fast, racing down the same track every day, plugging holes, negotiating deals, coaching and directing her team, developing and tweaking successful strategies to bring big brands to life. She only really learned about business when she started her own agency and she reveals aspects that business school didn't teach her.

In Mind Your Own Business, Nevi shares what she learned and how she managed to implement strategies that saw her business grow and grow.

Find something you want to do – and then just do it. That's how real entrepreneurs always start. This is your time. Make your mark on the world.

This practical book contains 10 interventions any facilitator can use to help a team to change their paradigms. These interventions can be used in both online and physical meetings.

The interventions will help a team to:

• Recognise their existing paradigms and develop new paradigms.
• Change from a product to a customer paradigm.
• Reduce costs using a different paradigm.
• Change from a silo mentality to a customer paradigm.
• View a problem from a different perspective.
• Help a team to adapt to a new normal.
• Identify trends that may shape the future.
• Identify new opportunities from trends.
• Develop a scenario of the future environment within which their organization is likely to operate.
• Identify new paradigms for being successful within a future world.

Whenever you need to help a team or a company to develop, improve, innovate or change, you will more often than not, be blocked by outdated paradigms. However, if you begin your session with an intervention around paradigms, the team will become more creative and more open to change.

In this book, we give you 10 tried and tested 'recipes' for helping a team to change their paradigms. Like any good recipe we provide all the information you may need to successfully facilitate each intervention.

Starting your own business is often celebrated and highlighted as a success [which it is] but as a society we never address the pitfalls and ‘the dark side’ of entrepreneurship. The small business world is characterised by ruthless ringleaders, hostile trading environments and uncomfortable business dealings. So, what happens when we begin addressing the elephants in the room in the world of entrepreneurship?

Self – Ish: Mastering Self in a Selfish business world addresses pertinent business and life lessons that entrepreneurs never speak about. The book offers a series of social commentary that ranges from the impact of black tax amongst black entrepreneurs, dealing with depression as an entrepreneur, personal branding for your brand as well as dealing with ringleaders in the business world. From chapters ranging from ‘build it, brand it & boast about it’, ‘How to secure the bag [a personal branding perspective], ‘It’s not that deep’ as well as addressing sexual manipulation in the face of business.

The book also contains a business canvas section that contains templates for entrepreneurs that they can use for business purposes.

The world of work is constantly changing creating new careers while some are becoming redundant. In most careers, career development is no longer business as usual. How safe is your career?

This book shares global trends on the future of work, the tools to create a career development path and, most importantly, how to execute it. Nowadays, a lasting career requires adaptation and mental toughness.

With the intention to support you stand out from the crowd, this book will help you:

• Define a career that is aligned with your personal mission and values, gives meaning, and creates happiness.
• Design a career path that is adaptable and in demand.
• Manage teams of diverse culture and background and improve their performance.
• Negotiate your way to a seat at the table.
• Lead and influence when you get the opportunity to sit at the table

Finding your seat at the table needs you to take charge of your career development and do the things that play to your strengths. Whether you are looking to improve your performance and get ahead, lead your team or department, or plan to run a company one day – this book is for you.

In this book, Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron examines real-world experience and the contemporary literature on group and team coaching. She analyses how team coaching can guide coaches to help leaders and teams flourish in complex, culturally diverse organisations. As well as presenting a variety of team coaching models she also presents her own model, High-Performance Relationship Coaching, the result of many years of working with global corporate teams.

Dr Stout-Rostron illuminates how team coaches can help teams to learn from and interpret their own experiences, and to understand the complexity of the environment in which they work. Her team coaching model is explored over eight chapters, beginning with the role of the business team coach and leadership coaching processes. She evaluates how to work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and how to shift culture through transformative leadership coaching, explains the depth of relationship systems coaching, and explores how to apply a variety of methods including Ubuntu coaching.

The book encourages team coaches to develop deep self-awareness, team awareness, cultural diversity awareness and wider systemic and relationship awareness. Filled with practical stories and examples, it describes how to work successfully with these models in the real world.

Transformational Coaching To Lead Culturally Diverse Teams is a key guide for coaches in practice and in training, HR and L&D professionals and executives in a coaching role. This is essential reading for all team coaches.

Creativity and imagination are key catalysts to unlocking potential in the 21st century. While those in business and civil society are generally aware of its challenges, few seem able to understand or apply the creativity necessary to meet them. Creativity Explained argues that the most direct route to imaginative insight lies in understanding how genuinely creative people develop their big ideas.

Focusing on the lives of contemporary writers, musicians and artists, Priilaid examines the elements of the creative process to provide readers with a better appreciation of creativity in practice. Through looking at the work of figures such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Bill Evans, Jackson Pollock, J.K. Rowling and the iconic Steve Jobs, he shows how artists are typically outsiders, marked by the extent of their suffering, resilience and love for the work they do.

In Creativity Explained, Priilaid presents an insightful overview of the imaginative mindset and disciplines crucial to the formulation of great ideas.

Written by two experts in the publishing industry, Publish Like a Pro is the most comprehensive guide to navigating the world of self-publishing in South Africa today. Authors Vanessa Wilson and Georgina Hatch explain in detail exactly what one should consider when choosing to go this route, empowering authors to create better-quality products and helping them avoid costly mistakes along the way.

Every aspect of the publishing process is explored – from making the decision to publish and what will be required of you as an author, to all the processes required to get your book from a raw manuscript to a finished, sellable product – with professional advice and best practices provided along the way.

Equipped with the ‘insider knowledge’ that Publish Like a Pro offers, self-publishers will have a greater chance of making the right decisions and reaping the rewards and profits that self-publishing can offer.

Building a reputation is all about consistency. Whether you are being unfailingly consistent or consistently unpredictable, you are in the process of building a reputation for yourself. A consistently positive stakeholder experience builds reliability, which builds trust, and ultimately establishes a strong and positive reputation. It is important to have the right building blocks in place to build a solid reputation. This book will guide you on how to build your organisation’s reputation so that you can be the business that people want to do business with.

From an academic and experiential point of view, Regine le Roux is best placed to help you identify and formulate solutions that work. This book is her step-by-step guide to building, managing, growing and maintaining a corporate reputation that reflects a company’s true values and ethics. It focuses on ten dimensions that have considerable impact on reputation, such as strategic intent, operational governance, human and operational capital, strategic alliances, social responsibility, value offering, business results and the glue that ties it all together, corporate dialogue.

It’s not all theory – Reputation Matters is distinctly South African. It speaks directly to businesses operating in our challenging South African context, giving real-life examples and solutions that resonate with every South African business person’s experience.

Wat is die geheim van selfgemaakte miljoenêrs, dié uitgelese groep wat welvaart skep, hetsy as entrepreneurs, professionele lui of as salaristrekkers, selfs te midde van uitdagings en ná terugslae? Die skrywer, ’n onafhanklike finansiële adviseur, het oor jare heen ontdek dat sekere strategieë suksesvolle welvaartskepping aan die hand werk. Hierdie boek bevat 68 welvaartstrategieë asook suksesstories van ’n diverse groep gewone Suid-Afrikaners wat soms van voor af oor moes begin maar steeds ’n uitdagende omgewing suksesvol kon navigeer.

Dié boek bied praktiese advies asook toerusting om oor elke strategie na te dink, jou eie finansiële posisie te verbeter en selfs, uiteindelik, inkomste vir ander te skep. Dit sal jou help om ’n kopskuif te maak en moontlikhede in ’n bitter moeilike ekonomiese klimaat te identifiseer. Die stories sal jou inspireer en ook help om hierdie strategieë in jou daaglikse handel en wandel toe te pas.

South Africans have been poorly served by the economic choices their governments have made.

The consequences of these choices are everywhere to be seen but most importantly in unemployment and poverty. In this book Brian Kantor advances spirited economic arguments for freer markets and less government intervention and regulation of the South African economy; the book will add significantly to a layman’s understanding of how our economy works. It offers a succinct review of all the key drivers that determine a modern economy’s performance as well as the key institutions of a modern economy.

The book presents an insightful review of the challenges facing the South African economy and its policy makers.

Business strategy is appealing because it contains insights that promise to outsmart and outperform competitors, leading to a future that is better, brighter and more rewarding than the present. But where does good strategy start?

In their new strategy book, Crystallising The Strategic Business Landscape, Marius Ungerer and co-authors Gerard Ungerer and Johan Herholdt provide readers with a solid point of departure for conducting impactful, relevant and future orientated strategy analyses and syntheses. Their approach is practice-led applications of strategic management tools that are based on sound theoretical foundations. The strategic business landscape is crystallised by viewing it from different vantage points to inform the development of strategic foresight, insight and cross-sight.

The book is aimed at scholars, leaders and practitioners who wish to learn how to analyse external and internal contexts as a starting point for understanding the current realities of organisations, and to serve as a basis for strategic decision-making. The book is thorough, yet accessible – the perfect companion for conducting strategic analysis and synthesis.

This book utilises multiple contemporary strategy perspectives and practices to give leaders and strategy practitioner’s deep insights about the dynamics and options available in developing good and robust strategies. The core of the book is about stimulating new strategic thinking and action to enhance the competitiveness of a firm.

Navigating strategic possibilities involves the invention and re-invention of an organisation. Strategic leadership, as a part of this navigation journey, is an integral guiding force of the strategic choices an organisation makes to fulfil its future aspirations. In this book, the key strategic choices related to the competitive advantage and positioning of an organisation are presented in an integrated strategic architecture perspective, and the following seven strategic architecture building blocks are discussed:

• Strategic leadership as a key capacity that gives life, meaning and on-going momentum to the strategy of an organisation.
• The development of views on the external and internal strategic landscape and context of an organisation.
• Strategy formulation and development which include a menu of strategic options and choices to consider.
• The development of multiple futures perspectives for an organisation.
• Strategy execution practices to make it a lived reality for stakeholders.
• Strategy renewal and innovation practices to refresh the strategy on a continuous basis.
• Entrepreneurial leadership and strategy practices to foster both entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.

The future holds an abundance of possibilities for those conscious enough to spot them. The strategy navigation tools contained in this book provides the identification and execution tools needed to flourish. This book complements the book Crystallising the Strategic Business Landscape by the same authors.

Prof Marius Ungerer is a core faculty member of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) where he research and teach strategic management, leadership and change management for post graduate degree programs like MBA, MPhil in Management Coaching and PGD in Leadership. He is also an annual visiting academic to University of Johannesburg and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan.

Dr Gerard Ungerer is an industrial engineer and a competitive strategy gamer with a passion for complex systems, strategy, business models, technology and innovation, e-business and management. Aptly, his postgraduate studies focused on competitive business strategy in the digital economy.

Johan Herholdt is a management thinker and an experienced author of more than 10 books (five as editor) and various book chapters. He is an expert facilitator concentrating on individual and team coaching, discourse processes and dialogics, as well as systemic problem solving

Moet ’n mens gewild wees om geld te maak uit sosiale media? Nee!

Daar ís egter ’n hele rits duur lesse wat verified influencers, of erkende meningsvormers (dáái met die blou regmerkies), almal op die harde manier geleer het.

Tradisionele media speel toenemend tweede viool vir digitale en sosiale media – ’n rewolusie wat aan inhoudskeppers ongekende (en lonende!) nuwe geleenthede bied. Elma Smit het in 2019 as aanbieder die hoogste sport bereik: sy is deur twee globale organisasies gekies om die verteenwoordiger van hul digitale inhoud by twee verskillende wêreldbekertoernooie in minder as ses maande te wees. Tóg het sy in dieselfde tydperk meer munt daaruit geslaan om ’n influencer te wees as uit enigiets anders.

In Word ’n Influencer laat een van SA se topinhoudskeppers en -influencers vir die eerste keer die aap uit die mou oor hoe ’n mens ’n lojale gehoor opbou, hoeveel jy vir geborgde veldtogte kan vra en hoe om die vele slaggate te vermy. Nadia Jaftha, Katinka die Kat, Bouwer Bosch en Rachel Kolisi tel onder die uitgelese geselskap van influencers wat ook hul geheime deel, terwyl plaaslike en oorsese bemarkingsghoeroes verduidelik waarna hulle op soek is wanneer daar op influencers vir veldtogte besluit word.

In What’s Your Move? Nicolette Mashile, founder of Financial Bunnies and a champion of personal-finance education across the African content, shares stories from her own life and journey with money in order to redefine personal-finance management.

An intimate and deeply personal book, in What’s Your Move? Nicolette talks openly about her experiences with money and the way she was brought up. She shares her beliefs about how our everyday behaviour influences how we manage our finances, and how, in spite of knowing better, we sometimes make the wrong financial decisions.

What’s Your Move? is a challenge: a challenge to you to make a move that will be financially rewarding. A promise to yourself that you are more than capable of managing your money.

Like many other African countries, South Africa has performed well in women’s representation in parliament and government, but this has not necessarily translated to other sectors. What are the obstacles to women’s advancement, and what needs to be done about it?

Equal But Different is based on life story interviews from fourteen women from diverse backgrounds, all of whom have risen to top leadership positions. These include Phuti Mahanyele (exec chairman Sigma Capital), Coco Cachalia (CEO Grounded Media), Cora Fernandez (Head of Sanlam Investment Management), and Siza Mzimela (first black woman to lead a commercial airline company). It does an excellent job of illuminating the similarities as well as the differences in the women’s experiences in their struggle to the top.

While this book is mainly aimed at women, it also calls upon men to play an active role in encouraging aspiring female leaders.

“It is my strong belief that people are born equal but different. It is a belief that equity across gender, race, social class and sexual orientation will be attained in my lifetime.” - Dr. Judy Dlamini

There is a change in momentum, worldwide, by progressive organisations to revise the current “outdated” approach to talent management. Business leaders are challenging the HR assumptions on which contemporary talent management are based. They are demanding a greater need for talent to add value to the bottom line. It is time to evolve once again – this time starting with the business imperatives and how key talent drive business value. Talent Value Management (TVM) is the new journey.

With over 19 years in Talent Management, Andre Pandy shows HR professionals how they can drive real value in the organisation by ensuring there is greater alignment of the talent agenda with key business outcomes – revenue, margins, cost reduction and market share. Talent Value Management presents a unique approach on how to better align your current talent strategy with organisation objectives.

This gem of a book is a must-read for everyone who is considering working with a coach.

It is an excellent starting point in a journey that will be rich and rewarding in ways you can only imagine. Penny and Kathy clarify what to expect from coaching and the different types of coaching you can explore.

They provide you with:

• Guidelines on finding and choosing a coach.
• Help in self-assessing your own readiness for coaching.
• Guidance on how to clarify your goals for coaching.
• Tips and tools which put you in the driver's seat in terms of the coaching journey you will be taking.