Avoid the numbers-focused survivalist trap

2010 heralds a new year and a new decade, with the promise of a fresh start as South Africa works its way out of the recession that dominated the financial horizon for most of 2009.

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Hundreds of young executives, selected by their organisations  as future CEOs, will meet at the Sandton International Convention Centre on 18 March to attend the Tomorrow's Leaders Convention 2010, the third of these annual events  hosted by Leadership magazine which have become a highlight on the corporate calendar.

They will be addressed by today's leaders and thinkers from the world of leadership on a range of issues likely to play a key role in their business future and will  be able to discuss and debate these issues at parallel sessions specific to the various sectors of the economy.

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Report highlight growing inequality within Black group

With their flashing high flying lifestyles, that have been so prominently in the spotlight off late, the African National Congress (ANC) alliance’s governing elite and its phalanx of bureaucraticly deployed cadres might be creating an explosive powder keg. That is one of the underlying implications of the findings of a just release international report on poverty and income inequality in South Africa indicating that while the country, a decade an a half after the advent of democracy,  remains one of the most unequal societies in the world.

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Search engine too big to control?

As the world faces a serious threat to its economic way of life in the aftermath of the 2007/08 financial crisis, the term “too big to fail” often is used in reference to the huge financial institutions who brought the globe to the brink of collapse of its financial system. Are we now facing a question of “too big to control” as the world's largest internet search engine, Google, increasingly  comes under pressure from authorities around the world over content control

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Court ruling could set new precedent

Councils across the country, property developers and owners whose properties are illegally occupied by squatters, squatter communities and organisations representing them and local tax and ratepayers, will all keep a very keen eye on the pending legal battle of the Joburg council to overturn a recent ruling in favour of landlords and illegal squatters by the High Court in Johannesburg. The ruling could change the power relationships between these groups forever.

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