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Welcome all of you
to "In Tune", our monthly newsletter to clients,
business partners, associates and friends!
"In Tune" provides us the opportunity to share
recent insights and learnings with you; we also
look forward to hearing from you, either
directly, or via our website and blog.
Having taken on more than 10 new coaching
clients over the past few months, we celebrate
the “positive restlessness” in our coachees and
their intentions to play better music in their
lives that is more in tune with their true
meanings.
From our recent mentoring and consulting work,
we are finding there is a large gap between
mature business people who have knowledge and
experience and the young who lack experience and
business smarts, but have the desire to get
ahead quickly. These two groups are out of sync
and rhythm and need to play together to achieve
sustainable growth.
We look forward to "tuning you" and sharing our
music lessons in the future.
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In the Financial
Mail of 1 October 2010, there was an article
titled "Success, given the chance". It tells the
story of Ayanda Bam, one of the founders of
Kuyasa Mining, possibly the oldest black-owned
colliery in South Africa. Initially they had
plans to be a 12 Mt/year coal producer.
They had
no funds to start off with and no bank would
lend them money.
Eventually they found a
contractor with a work force who needed work. It
was agreed that the contractor would mine on Kuyasa's behalf in return for income from coal
sales. For the first 18 months the owners of
Kuyasa earned no money.
They now produce 3
Mt/year and have survived the downturn and have
plans to build a 600 MW coal-fired power
station.
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We were fortunate
to attend a session by Clem Sunter this month.
As usual, he gave an excellent presentation on
the latest global economic scenarios and the
possibilities for South Africa. He also talked
about how pockets of excellence need to be
talked about, encouraged and praised.
He presented three scenarios for the global
economy and gave us flags to judge which
scenario becomes increasingly likely:
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If you received
R86 400 at the start of every day and you had to
spend it all that day on yourself and other
people, could you? You are not able to
accumulate any; the balance goes back to zero at
the end of the day. You cannot loan it, it must
be spent. Will you waste the money or use it
wisely? Will you feel good, spending it all each
and every day? Will other people benefit? Will
you benefit?
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