Webcast #5: Business unusual: Future of work and organisational mindset
Overview
This one hour webcast is perfectly positioned to help management teams better navigate South Africa’s in-built complexity, and provides useful insights for investors seeking clarity in a sea of uncertainty. Bruce will deliver an insightful, data-rich talk incorporating information that challenges audiences to seek opportunities in the chaos rather than capitulate into despair. He will share lessons from his new book The Upside of Down, helping put in perspective the crisis as it is playing out at the moment, as well as up-to-the minute essentials from his real world interactions with a host of CEO’s, unions etc. The world will be very different two/three weeks from now, as the health crisis evolves into the inevitable business fallout, but the lessons Bruce will draw from previous crises are being seen by businesses, helping them navigate through this crisis.
Who should attend?
SAICA members and associates [CA(SA)/AGA(SA)/AT] and trainees and members of the public
Programme
08h30 – 09h30 – Session to commence
09h30 – 09h45 – Q& A
About our presenters
Bruce Whitfield
Economic and Political Observer
Bruce is a multi-platform award-winning financial journalist. His work on radio, television and in print gives him unique access to South Africa’s biggest power brokers in business and money. Bruce has been named Financial Journalist of the Year three times in the past decade by independent judges in the annual Sanlam Awards and has received recognition for his work on the economy, companies and personal finance. Bruce has developed the ability to tell compelling stories about the political economy in a way that is creative and engaging. Bruce has worked in the highly competitive London radio market and has worked as a foreign correspondent for various global news organizations. He graduated top of his class with a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rhodes University and has been practicing as a journalist for over two decades. One day he hopes to turn it into a career. Bruce presents The Money Show on 702 and CapeTalk, hosts Taking Stock, a weekly TV show on eNCA, and is a columnist and writer for the Sunday Times Business Times. Bruce has spent nearly 20 years interviewing CEO’s and studying the companies they have created. South Africa might seem to be an unlikely breeding ground for globally competitive companies, but it has produced a range of extraordinary success stories. Bruce has distilled through a range of exclusive one-on-one interviews with the founders of great South African companies precisely what it is that has made them formidable international players.
Series Overview
Crises inadvertently create opportunity. Challenges and crises have the potential to ignite our greatest ideas, creative thoughts and leadership decisions as it forces us outside the norm. It is said that the best things lie just beyond our comfort zones.
It is against a backdrop of a global crisis as well as the recent downgrade by Moody’s, confirming the country’s sub-investment status and the accompanying dire economic prospects facing the country, as well as the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown, it is easy to become despondent and fearful.
We’d like to encourage you during this time of uncertainty to take care of yourself and your family. But not only that, consider the impact of your actions on those around you. Fighting this pandemic and finding our new normal in the midst of uncertainty is not only necessary, but also our national duty.
Therefore, SAICA wants to encourage you, our members, in these unsettling and unprecedented times. To help address the challenges faced by many, SAICA will be hosting a complimentary virtual leadership series that will focus on various elements affecting individuals, businesses and the profession as a whole.
