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John Vlismas Marketing Executive, Henley Business School, Africa. In my MBA group I met an excellent man. He runs a large HR department for a South African corporation currently navigating turbulence. I was struck by his high level of self-awareness, and his ability to care for people. His eloquent and impassioned defence of HR was…
18 December 2020 Daily Maverick There is a lot we don’t know yet about Covid-19 and how it will evolve. What we do know is that wearing masks and sanitising are key, while physical distancing and ventilation of enclosed spaces are vital. So, let’s not be selfish. Who’s more likely to die, a soldier deployed…
Covid-enforced rules of engagement have given us all rare glimpses into other people’s lives that otherwise would have been unlikely. This week I was fortunate to spend a pleasurable hour on Zoom in the company of characterful world-leading futurist Faith Popcorn and the highly personable Dean Jon Foster-Pedley, director of the Henley Business School Africa. The conversation focused…
John Vlismas Marketing Executive, Henley Business School, Africa. The privileged have been prolific during lockdown. With networked processing power and security, we feel wise. We preach innovation – groceries are delivered, children are virtually schooled. Surplus makes adaptation as novel as the virus. Zoom and OneCart and Netflix and BlackBoard are new life partners. Are…
BizCommunity, 27th November 2020 24th November 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has been adjudged the outright winner of the 2020 BASA first-time sponsorship of the arts award for Henley Resurgence, the collaboration with the Coloured Cube Collective, that saw Henley’s iconic columns in the forum between the Cape Dutch buildings that constitute…
THE recently released authoritative Financial Times Executive MBA 2020 ranking has some wonderful plaudits for Henley Business School – rating it the best in Britain and the fourth in the world for female faculty and placing it in the top 20 globally for women and international students. The Executive MBA is also highly regarded in…
26 November 2020 Daily Maverick KIMI Makwetu was inspired to become an auditor by his mother, Maureen, who ran a meat distribution business in Gugulethu. “I was exposed to ways of checking how and whether money was complete or not,” South Africa’s former auditor-general told Business Day’s Claudi Mailovich, remembering how his mother had always…
Practice, principles and stance: Your journey is just beginning CHRIS DALTON Today we honour and celebrate those who have completed the MBA at Henley. After all, completion was the whole point of starting. As you stand where you stand today, you may feel you have climbed up a very long, and sometimes very hard cliff…
John Vlismas Marketing Executive, Henley Business School, Africa. The benefit of working at a good school is that you’re encouraged to practice what you teach. The Henley marketing team has been in Beta mode since March. The interplaying complexities of COVID, media being in flux and evolving modes of learning all conspired to render us…
The title of this article is inspired by a conversation I had with Barry van Zyl about music and performance. It occurred to me that this is a placeholder for life, as regardless of one’s art or endeavour, this is how we navigate continuous learning and mastery. At any moment we are the sum of…
