Posts under ‘Anja Merret’

Copyright issues have been at the center of many discussions at my volunteering placement at Hold the Future. This is the center for disabled young people in Hanoi, Vietnam. The center offers both vocational training and handicraft production.
At this present time the center makes handicrafts on orders placed mostly by one big client. This means [...]

Just reading about the Eurozone bail out of Greece that’s happening now. And a particularly bad move by German Chancellor Merkel is showing up some dire consequences. Wait and see just didn’t work here.
Greece was in trouble. It’s Eurozone partners huddled around for weeks. During this time the money that Greece could borrow to help [...]

The first time I ‘met’ up with Tom Peters was during my MBA. His book that he co-authored with Waterman “In Search of Excellence” was a prescribed book. Even the remote spot of Westville in South Africa where my Graduate School of Business was situated had heard of him.
This was in the late 1980s. Thirty [...]

Working as a volunteer has been quite illuminating to say the least. Besides learning how non-profits approach business, the other new field for me has been that of fundraising.
As part of my ‘education’ in the subject of fundraising I am subscribed to a fair number of blogs that share information and words of wisdom on [...]

On Friday I had a heated dispute with Microsoft Word. It almost won. Touch and go. What is the most irritating is its tendency to think it knows what I want to do next. Well I don’t want to do that next!
One remembers fondly back to the days of the first word processing software. The [...]

At the moment I am establishing teams to work on projects for the Centre I am currently working at. The Centre, Hold the Future, provides vocational training to young disabled people as well as an opportunity to earn a living making handicraft products.
There are a number of projects that are outside the normal scope of [...]

One of the things I noticed when I first moved to Vietnam was the abundance of TV sets.  Every home seems to have one and mostly it’s on all day. Even offices and work places tend to have the flickering screen supervising all life.
It was quite a surprise because I had been thinking in recent [...]

Many years ago my father invested heavily in the South African stock exchange, the JSE. He realised early on that his small pension due to him at the end of his working days would not be sufficient for my parents to retire on.
He spent hours on reading up about companies, investment opportunities and different options [...]

Checking the briefing offered by trendwatching.com is often very interesting. This month’s trend briefing was in the form of videos that addressed a few interesting questions.
There were two that were particularly interesting. One was Car vs Phone. It surveyed a fair number of people from all walks of life and in different countries as to [...]

An interesting statistic was mentioned in a post on Huffington. Unemployment for those making $150 000 a year was only 3% in the last quarter of 2009 whereas the percentage of unemployed was a staggering 31% for the bottom 10% of income (USA stats).
So much for an across the board unemployment rate. Put a figure [...]