To manage or to lead?

The world has not had a fantastic time of it lately. No doubt, as South Africans settle down to enjoy the spectacle of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup, they will do their best to repress the litany of catastrophes that the news has thrown up in recent months, perhaps dispelling any bugbears and bogeymen which make it through the media bliss-out, with a vigorous Diski Dance or vuvuzela blast. But the nagging sense of something having gone particularly amiss will not go away.

The one we’ve been waiting for

Brave new world or business as usual? Perhaps a little bit of both? Optimists, pessimists and fence-sitters all agree on one thing: this is the year we have all been waiting for.

Don’t let reality bite you

Outside the project management office, far away from the comforting authority of the Body of Knowledge, at a remove from the GANTT charts, the models, the simulations – there is a place that many executives prefer to avoid.

It’s the end of the world as we know it

Not a few people around the world are preparing themselves for the year 2012: for that is when, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, the world will cease to exist.