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Cherish your Consumer’s Critique – A Case Study With Chappies South Africa

Customer feedback is the one true piece of intimate information that allows you to review the success of a product or service through the eyes of your consumers. It is therefore invaluable.
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Motivate and be Motivated: Part 1

A commitment to something, anything, will start and it will perish if you are not constantly motivated to continue.
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How People Read - When They Actually Read

We all know that we are living in an ‘instant gratification, no-time-to-waste’ age. This impacts most aspects of our daily lives – including how we read. We spend ages scanning the web to find articles and information relevant to us, but do we actually read these articles once we find them? As content marketing is growing rapidly and online content is increasing, someone has to be reading, right?
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Born Creatives: Can We Think Differently?

What do you think? Is it possible to think differently and creatively or is this impossible if you were not born with a creative mind? Creative thinking is present in most aspects of our lives. Whether it’s finding solutions to problems, managing a business, having everyday conversations or writing an article, creative thinking is central. Being able to think differently leads to innovation and this is why it is so important when it comes to business.
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Explaining Value

Value is one of the most important elements that people look for in products, services, companies and, most commonly, other people. The thing with value is that it might not be as obvious as one would think. People often do not recognise value for what it is worth – it is more of a given than a gift. If you do not communicate your value to all who favours from it, you simply won’t be rewarded for it.
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Using Willpower to Create New Positive Habits

According to the book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, by research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister and science writer John Tierney, successful people use their willpower to modify negative habits and to develop new positive habits. This is interesting because habits are stored in a different part of the brain, called the “dorsal striatum”, which uses less energy. You benefit from these new positive habits, month after month, year after year, without depleting you precious daily willpower quota.
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The Secret to Success: Give More Than You Take

As humans, we are a social species. We need each other in order to survive because we trade, arrow heads for food, for example. A person’s value is determined by the society in which he or she operates. Success is then again determined by these value judgments and structures. The social perspective of value is most prominent in situations of trade.
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The Vocabulary of Leaders

We think in language. How we define our thoughts, feelings, pursuits and the way in which we communicate these to the outside world, is all dependent on the vocabulary at our disposal. In order to properly and healthily reason with oneself, one must have a sufficient vocabulary to do so.
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