Listeners to Chapter 1 of Tracey Swanepoel’s business book, The Leadership Riptide and How to Escape, are reminded that many regard employment as a form of torture. Counting the hours until home-time or the monthly pay cheque is common.
This is anathema at BizNews, where we skip to work and earning a living is a side-effect of our daily fun doing what we love. Our Chief Happiness Officer – yes, that’s a job here! – is also on standby to help on those rare occasions where the spring disappears from someone’s step.
Jeanette Hogg, our CHO, keeps an eagle-eye for signs of role fatigue and pours huge energy into keeping people engaged and creative in their positions. One of her mantras is that work must be a pleasure and a passion – a message which resonates with the ideas contained in Swanepoel’s useful management guide. The Leadership Riptide and How to Escape is free to download for BizNews community members (access it here).
PS: Night owls wanted. Freelance opportunities. If you have financial media experience in copy-editing (digital publishing) or skills in cleaning and cutting audio packages, and like the idea of skipping to work, send your CV to jackie@biznews.com.
Webinar alert
* Online high school. Join BizNews founder Alec Hogg at noon (Tuesday 17 November) for answers to all those questions about high schooling in the digital age. In studio will be our partners from the disruptive Valenture Institute, founder Robert Paddock (whose previous company Getsmarter.com was sold to the world’s online education leader, Nasdaq-listed TwoU, for R1.8bn) and Valenture faculty lead Sarah Elphick. Free. Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4850212282925182219
* The BizNews Finance Friday webinar this week features two top independent advisors. Available to answer your questions about investing offshore: award-winning journalist, author and financial services entrepreneur Magnus Heystek, founder of Brenthurst Wealth Management, and Gareth Leonard of Netto Invest. Free, but you must register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6646694434270030861.
