AT&T Is Buying Time Warner Because the Future is Google
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES ARE becoming media companies. That explains AT&T’s agreement to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion. But something else ...
The Key to Innovation? It May Be More Simple Than You Think
Having hard deadlines and systems in place may help your business innovate more efficiently—and, in the long run, more successfully. ...
Four tips for recovering from failure
As people respond to failure in different ways, there are also a number of different ways to recover from failure. ...
Understanding Africa’s seven types of consumers
Research firm Nielsen recently identified seven types of African consumers that companies need to be aware of as they target ...
The Teachings Of Warren Buffett: How Inflation Swindles The Equity Investor
In this second of the series of articles on teachings of Warren Buffett we look at how inflation has a ...
Why offering customers more choice is not always better
My holiday reading included Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The power of thinking without thinking (first published in 2005), which examines the ...
Seven leadership rules to stay ahead of the pack
Having launched our business 10 years ago, we have grown fast, built things, broke some, and importantly retained a start-up ...
Seven tips all entrepreneurs need before launching a start-up
I started my career in operations and then became a venture capitalist. But after a couple of years in that ...
Goldman Sachs on whether Africa’s risks are worth the rewards
Colin Coleman, managing director for Goldman Sachs sub-Saharan AfricaJust over four years ago the editor of Goldman Sachs’ Fortnightly Thoughts ...
Google Pixel Is the Best Phone on the Planet
I WRITE ABOUT gadgets, which means everyone asks me what laptop or dishwasher or whatever to buy. I struggle with ...