This past Saturday I attended the first ever Psychologies Magazine Readers’ Workshop at the beautiful and picturesque Groot Constantia. I had only picked up one copy of this magazine and enjoyed most of it. It’s exactly my cup of tea. One thing bothered me though was that this magazine is aimed at women. And I [...]

This book is a must read for any man living in the world today. And for any mother who wants to know what to do with her son, most especially if she is raising him as a single mother. This strikes a real cord with me because I grew up with a single mother ? [...]

Driving around Johannesburg I’ve noticed several huge billboards advertising the new show on M-NET, Ugly Betty. The reviews are all positive in the South African media like this one by Tashi Tagg. And this is to be expected because we live in a politically correct country or some would say world. Now I have not [...]

Marketingweb just posted an excellent summary of points by Freek Robinson, a long time television presenter in South Africa. He gives the following excellent tips on how to conduct yourself during and interview. And I found this particularly useful as the frequency of my radio and television interviews are consistent and as new projects come [...]

You may be interested in this is an interview I did with journalist and blogger Damaria Senne about self promotion and building your own profile. A friend of mine once suggested that I offer this as a service to clients. So if you want to obliterate your competition and position yourself as an expert in [...]

Life, relationships and all human interactions relate best to the basic principles of economics which is supply and demand. When you have an oversupply of goods e.g. desperate guys trying to get the attention of an attractive woman their value drops very fast in her eyes because they are all doing the same thing to [...]

A man and his wife are in court getting a divorce. The problem is who should get custody of the child. The wife jumps up and says: “Your Honour, I brought the child into the world with pain and labour. She should be in my custody.” The judge turns to the husband and says, “What [...]

This is part of a Q&A series from my CNBC Africa interview. So here is my list of the biggest mistakes professionals make. You know just last week I was walking toward Village Walk in Sandton and I spotted a group of guys who likely work at Rand Merchant Bank or Investec. They were all [...]

Professionals often don’t have a lot of time to socialise. In brief, simple terms, what practical examples of how they can make the most of the time they do you have when trying to secure phone numbers or a date.
You must including online dating in your arsenal simply because it gives you access to hundreds [...]

Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Manto Tsabalala Msimang were flying together in the President’s jet. Thabo Mbeki suddenly said: “You know what. I can throw a R500 right now out of this window and make someone happy.”
Jacob Zuma said: “I can throw five R 100 notes out of the window and I will [...]