Business Unusual

The best disruptors are focused on customers, not products, they use technology rather than fear it, they create new opportunities often where regulations don't exist and they are backed by those with…

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Business Unusual: Gym memberships, wellness programmes and other workplace perks cannot compensate for excessive workloads and unhealthy working environments
Stephen Grootes speaks to Professor Renata Schoeman, Head of the MBA Healthcare Leadership Programme at Stellenbosch Business School, about the growing impact of toxic workplaces on employees' mental and physical health. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio present…
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Business Unusual: How lab-grown diamonds and meat are changing the meaning of 'real'
Stephen Grootes speaks to Graeme Codrington, Lead Researcher at the TomorrowToday Futures Institute, about what lab-grown diamonds and steaks have in common. Lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical to mined diamonds, while scientists are developing real meat grown from animal cells without rais…
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Business Unusual: The business cost of neglecting employee mental health
Stephen Grootes speaks to Thionay Morgan, Human Capital Executive at Old Mutual Mass and Foundation Cluster, about why employee mental health and wellbeing should be a year-round business priority rather than an annual campaign. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio…
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Business Unusual: How fatherhood may change the way male managers hire
Stephen Grootes speaks to Advaita Naidoo, Africa Managing Director at Jack Hammer Global, about research examining how becoming a father to a daughter can influence the way male managers make hiring and promotion decisions. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio pres…
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Business Unusual: When workplace venting starts hurting productivity
Stephen Grootes speaks toSiphiwe Moyo, Organisational Behaviour Specialist, about when workplace venting crosses the line into emotional dumping. While sharing frustrations with colleagues can be part of a healthy workplace, repeated venting can create a cycle of negativity, drain colleagues’ emoti…
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Business Unusual: Executive pay: Fair or excessive?
Stephen Grootes speaks to Graeme Codrington, lead researcher at the TomorrowToday Futures Institute,about whether capping executive salaries is an effective way to reduce income inequality and improve corporate accountability, drawing on international examples such as Israel and China. The Money S…
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Business Unusual: Have we become too efficient to hear each other?
Stephen Grootes speaks to organisational behaviour specialist Siphiwe Moyo, about why hearing someone’s voice can make them seem more intelligent, thoughtful and human, and what that means for job interviews, difficult workplace conversations and leaders delivering tough messages. The Money Show i…
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Business Unusual: The cost of toxic workplaces
Stephen Grootes speaks to Advaita Naidoo, Africa Managing Director at Jack Hammer Global, about how employees can distinguish between a truly toxic workplace, organisational dysfunction and simply being in the wrong job fit, and what steps they should take in each situation. The Money Show is a po…
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Business Unusual: Pay transparency is here — but do workers understand it?
Motheo Khoaripe speaks to Lindiwe Sebesho, MD of Remchannel, about South Africa’s shift towards greater pay transparency and why simply publishing salary and pay-gap figures is not enough to create greater fairness in the workplace. With new Companies Act requirements bringing prescribed pay-gap di…
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Business Unusual: China’s demographic time bomb
Stephen Grootes speaks to Graeme Codrington, lead researcher at the TomorrowToday Futures Institute, about why China’s rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate could have far-reaching consequences for the global economy, workforce, and future demographic trends. The Money Show is a podca…
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