Article written by dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley JACINDA Ardern’s recent landslide victory in New Zealand is a victory not just for gender activists, democrats and the caring conscientised, but also for common sense. Her leadership of the tiny country with its population of only five million spread across two islands, literally at the bottom…
Henley’s Glossary of Everyday Business Terms Henley Business School compiled a few handy business terms that form part of the #HenleyLife Ethos. Here are the terms to add to your vocabulary: Agility Economy Asynchronous Autonomy Black Swan Bloom’s Taxonomy Continuous Learning Convergence Corporate Activism Digital Literacy Dissonance Divergence Ethics Governance Intellectual Bravery Interrelationships Intrapreneur Irreverent…
When I grow up I want to be a ….. This familiar aspiration is traditionally related to children. A nurse, a fireman, a doctor. Upon reaching adulthood, we hear about mentors. A mentor is defined as an experienced and trusted adviser, and this is what a great educator is. As it’s motivating to always have something to aspire…
The title isn’t a typo, it’s adapted from a quip made by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie about estate agents: ‘you can’t live with them, and you can’t live with them’. Meetings are a resilient institution despite their large-scale inefficacy and resentment-inducing reputation for time-wasting, box-ticking, and oxygen deprivation. A meeting is defined as ‘an assembly of…
Daily Maverick – 17 October 2020 WE ARE steadily emerging into a world that is very similar to the one we bade farewell on 27 March – yet so very different. The pressure to return to what we knew is immense, especially in the commercial world which was dealt a severe, in some cases existential,…
Global Focus Magazine Standard Bank / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / Henley Business School – GOLD WINNER OF THE 2020 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – The brief was as brave as it was wide: take 328 bankers of varying seniority from 20 African countries and help them unlock their untapped potential – as…
Pauli van Wyk was named Journalist of the Year, at this year’s virtual Standard Bank Sikuvile Awards, for “Cruising Nicely on VBS Money”, which together with her “The Elements of a Bank Heist” made up the body of work that was named South African Story of the Year. Both were for Scorpio and Daily Maverick. Van…
SOUTH Africa’s borders officially open for the first time in six months on October 1 but if they hadn’t, students on Henley Business School Africa’s brand new NQF level 8 qualification for Africa would have been walking through the continent’s factories and fairs – from the comfort of their own home – on October 27.…
On Saturday, 19 September 2020, two teams of young soccer players took to the field to practice their soccer skills in Henley Business School Africa sponsored kit. Soon they hope to be playing a full match against an adult Henley Africa side on the campus itself. The teams aged between 10 and 16 are part…
1. What does the HENLEY “brand” represent? We build the people who build the businesses who build Africa, which is about making world class education accessible by believing in people and teaching them to believe in their own potential. 2. What is unique about HENLEY? We’re activists. We push people hard, to get them to…
