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Weekend Reflection: Are you learning from the best?

Nov 28, 2018

Picasso said: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”

This simply means that you may not have been first with an idea or concept, but that you can improve or adapt an existing idea that is already working. In other words, you are not merely imitating; you are making the idea your own.

I am always stunned that countries don’t look at each other’s technology or ideas (best practices) proactively. And more importantly, that businesses don’t look at each other’s technology or ideas proactively.

There are many non-competitive businesses that use world-class processes or concepts from whom you can learn to improve your own situation. Do you study the best of the best? There is no reason to redesign the wheel.

Have a nice weekend and remember: Persistence wins the day!

REMEMBER!

Click here to listen to my latest interview with Christine Geldart. She is the owner of Marven Equipment, a dynamic family business known as the “Kings of Customization”.

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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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