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Weekend Thinking: What can others gather from our behaviour?

Aug 15, 2018

I sometimes sit in coffee shops watching people coming and going. The stories they portray could become best-sellers if reduced to writing. I am often struck by the lack of driven body language I see. Are we leading by setting an example?

Do we realise what others read in us when we are not looking? There is much truth in the adage that children learn by what you do and not by what you say. Recently, I spoke to Mia Kruger of Kruger International and I was impressed when she frankly said one of their major selling points was that they never invest other people’s money where they would not invest their own money. As a company, they like to lead and at the same time to set an example.

Kruger International stick to their set of investment rules. In fact, Mia continued her studies in Financial Behaviour, and we all know that the impact that money has on a person’s emotions is one of the most powerful ways to determine a person’s identity.

Do we realise that, collectively, our behaviour has an effect on our psyche of a positive society? The success of a thoroughly sound society lies in our adaptability. Is our behaviour such that we are prepared to set the example?

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Jacques Basson

After a wonderful childhood in Riebeeckstad and many years at the Kovsie campus to perfect my pool game (half-truth) and complete a business degree, my corporate sales and marketing career started with the Coca-Cola Company in 1999. Coca-Cola’s management development programme, Kusile, quickly developed by business expertise and five additional companies and senior roles in South Africa and England later – for among others Parmalat, Ecolab, Luxottica and Polaroid Eyewear – I started a commercial cleaning company, VanBroc Cleaning, in 2007, followed by a joint venture with a commercial cleaning company in Austin, Texas in 2012. After 14 years in England my family and I moved back to South Africa early in 2018 and we currently reside in Centurion. Of course, Klipkouers podcast is the new baby in the business family and I need your help raising the child!

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