Author Archives: Administrator
Switch off without disconnecting your career
ARE you one of those individuals who were huddled over the cellphone, furtively yet frequently tending to business during your last holiday? Did you assume the SMS-crouch in the corner of the restaurant or pace beyond the reach of the … Continue reading
Business cards – out dated or underestimated?
WHILE at a wine show in Cape Town some time ago, I spent an hour or so observing interactions between producers, marketers and potential buyers. Something I found particularly interesting was the exchange – and often lack of exchange – … Continue reading
Trust holidays – a different way of looking at leave
IMAGINE a job with limitless holidays, where you can take as much leave as you like, when you like. American and British companies – mostly accountancy, law and advertising organisations – are offering just that with a new concept called … Continue reading
Teleworking: how to tell that it will work for you
DO you find, as I do, that when you attempt to contact people at their companies you’re increasingly told they are, “Working from home today”? Indeed, more and more people work from home for their companies these days. There is … Continue reading
From curio to collectible, from craft to art?
CURIO, collectible, craft and art. Is there a difference? For many, the distinction is as blurred and biased as a room buzzing with artistic interpretation. Even widely respected experts, with exceptional understanding of art and its value, have contrary views … Continue reading
Cooking with Margot Janse – and being married to a froopie
FROOPIES are all around us, and their numbers, I believe, are growing. Froopies…you know…food groupies. Get it? They are those fervent food fans, who – star-struck by celebrity culinistas à la mode – worship domestic goddesses like Nigella Lawson, hang … Continue reading
The plight of women in the workplace…what plight?
Although research regularly claims to support the plight of women in the workplace, the fairer sex is, as I found out while working on this article for Agenda magazine, moving on regardless. WRITING about workplace issues, as I do, means … Continue reading
Hooked on trout
IT is hard to believe that 25 years ago, when the Stubbs brothers – Andrew, David and Greg – scooped their first tussling netfuls of market-ready rainbow trout from the few tanks they had installed alongside the crystal clear stream … Continue reading
Spotting a fake artwork
THE hullaballoo that erupted in 2009 regarding the authenticity of Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Lost Orchid, which was sold for a record R3.2-million at the Brett Kebble auction in May that year, reminded people once again about the worrying phenomenon of forged … Continue reading
Sex up your soup
THE problem with soup, said my über-hyper marketing-guru friend, Emile, as he paused momentarily between spoonfuls of vichyssoise at a recent dinner party, is that it has a boring image. It needs, he went on, to undergo an extreme brand … Continue reading
Penny Haw 