TGR Magazine
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2 April 2014 at 09 : 06 AM
Being a super boss on a shoestring: Six healthy habits
The difference between a Horrible Boss and a Super Boss could be a few habits, says Dr Peter Stebbins. Did you know that we spend 34% of our lives (approximately 228,708 hours!) trying to successfully ride the Wave of Life of work? Small businesses in Australia represent 97% of all private sector businesses and employ […]
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2 April 2014 at 09 : 17 AM
Mis-selling by financial advisers a top ethical issue
An annual global survey of CFA Institute members has found that concerns about mis-selling by financial advisers have increased significantly over the past year in Australia, despite the government’s stated intention to restore public confidence in the finance industry in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Almost half (48%) of Australian members responding to […]
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2 April 2014 at 09 : 33 AM
The loss of trust
For those of us who have grown up in environments where ‘hand shake deals’ and ‘your word is your bond’ were expected, and the punishment for breaking trust was not generally settled in a court room, the modern world of business can be perplexing at best and downright soul destroying at worst, writes Dennis McIntyre. […]
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2 April 2014 at 09 : 57 AM
Tweet this!
Twitter entered the world of ‘public companies’ in a blaze of glory – now it is time for it to deliver. Finally, even the brains behind Twitter have admitted that their design is flawed, or in other words: #fail @Twitter. Too many people have no clue. After a successful IPO, Twitter’s fourth quarter growth was […]
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1 April 2014 at 16 : 15 PM
All the world is a stage
We’ve all had the acting buzz. We’ve all thought we could be the next DeNiro or Streep. Some just want to be the next Monroe… however acting isn’t that easy. Yet the skills actors possess can go a long way to helping people in life and business. Lisa Peers knows this. She speaks with Jonathan […]
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1 April 2014 at 16 : 40 PM
Plan for the outlier
Preparing for bad times as well as good will make you a better trader, writes Louise Bedford. All traders dream of buying something at $0.10 and having it go to $50. Unfortunately most do not consider the reverse – buying something at $50 and having it go to $0.10. Yet precisely this situation arose during […]
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1 April 2014 at 16 : 46 PM
The ultimate growth adventure: South Africa
Federico Re shares his personal experiences at the Ultimate Growth Adventure program. It all began at 4.30am, on 25 November 2013, at Johannesburg airport. I had arrived at the international terminal one hour early, and nobody was there waiting for me, as planned. I was starting to feel anxious and dubious that it was a […]
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1 April 2014 at 16 : 55 PM
The future of lending
The lending environment is catching up with the rest of the world, writes Nick Raphaely. “It’s not personal; it’s business” is an old saying that just might be about to get the boot. It reflects a time when being in business meant that it was your interests against everyone else’s. However, this may soon no […]
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1 April 2014 at 12 : 06 PM
Bringing businesses together
We all love life’s little perks and privileges, but what if you could take all of them and put them into one simple program? That’s exactly what Martin Martinez has done with the launch of Entrepreneur Card. The United States has all kinds of programs, most of them pretty successful when it comes to […]
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1 April 2014 at 12 : 44 PM
How to live on Bitcoins for a week
Bitcoin is great when used as a secondary form of income, but exclusively living out of this digital currency is probably not a good idea just yet. Bitcoin is, for all intents and purposes, an independent form of payment, but with freedom comes price fluctuation and one might not know if a Bitcoin is enough […]
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