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Powering performance through sleep
Quality sleep is as important to us as food and water. We often, however, neglect it as a part of the recovery process. In order to operate at your peak, your body and mind need to take a break. Let’s look at why sleep is so important for performance and recovery.
Engineering business success in 2023: Business Acumen
To deal with current and future challenges, it is crucial that your business makes the right decisions at each level of the organisation. Strengthening the business acumen of your workforce can help reduce the risk of false assumptions and uninformed decisions, in so doing, future-proofing your business. But what is business acumen, and what skills should you focus on developing to set yourself and your organisation up for success?
Eliciting the deep relaxation response
The stress response has historically helped the vulnerable human species survive in a volatile world filled with danger. However, in our interconnected and high-paced phase of modernity, people increasingly find it difficult to put the brakes on stress. Chronic stress leads to life-threatening physical and mental health problems. In this article we briefly unpack the stress response and then look at how the relaxation response offers a helpful solution.
Navigating uncertainty with a Stoic mindset
Dealing with uncertainty is a central part of running a business. But an inability to effectively navigate life's unknowns can lead to worry and distress. How can you go about acting decisively when you feel your destiny is out of your control? Stoicism is a...
Recognising the Signs of Corporate Burnout
Has a stressful year left you feeling helpless, disillusioned, and completely exhausted? You may just be in need of a well-deserved holiday. On the other hand, you may be on the road to burnout. Burnout doesn’t discriminate, and anyone in the modern workforce can fall...
Digital Marketing: A professional perspective on a changing landscape
Digital marketing is an exciting and challenging component of the modern marketing mix. There is no simple map to navigate this rapidly changing terrain. We spoke to Marelise Gilbert, VP of Digital Marketing at Entersekt, about...
Questions of Land and Investment in Stellenbosch with Tim Harris
The land debate is a contentious issue in South Africa right now, with many fearing that the threat of expropriation without compensation might send the economy into a tailspin. For a brief moment in late August the matter made headlines across the world, when it...
Clever Crooks Ring Alarm Bells in Technopark
It’s half past three on a Sunday afternoon. The last embers of the lunchtime braai are slowly dying out. Your sister and brother-in-law have maneuvered their children into the Toyota, thanked you for the meal, and driven home. Taking a last sip of wine, you flop down...
What’s Happening with the Dams in Technopark?
As many Technoparkers have noted – some with no small degree of trepidation – the dams bordering Neutron Road are being filled with excavation material from the new Capitec building site. A number of people have taken to social media to express their alarm over what...
Risk & Investment Potential in the Western Cape – A Business Forum Talk by Tim Harris
Please join the Technopark Business Forum as we discuss: Risks and investment potential in the Western Cape, with a focus on Stellenbosch and the land debate with Tim Harris. Tim Harris is CEO of Wesgro and erstwhile Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of...
Capitec Starts Construction of New Building
Capitec has received Municipal approval to proceed with the construction of their new office building in Technopark. The project will break ground in the week of 20-25 August 2018 and it is foreseen that construction will conclude early 2020. In order to manage any...
Technopark Future Developments: Progress, Prospects & Potentials
If you work in Technopark or are an owner in the park, please click here to complete our project survey. The survey will take 5-10 minutes and will ensure that better information is gathered for important decisions that are being made about Technopark’s future Since...
Who You Gonna Call, Technopark?
If there’s one thing we know in South Africa, it’s that kicking up an enormous fuss about something is often the only way to get the attention of the authorities. And when the ground swell of dissatisfaction about an issue or problem affecting a group of people is...
Raising the Bar: A Conversation with Weightlifting Champ Johanni Taljaard
“In weightlifting, you get the snatch, and you get the clean and jerk. Those are the two movements. Snatching can be a bit more unstable, it’s easier to fail. Clean and jerk is more a strength-based move,” explains Johanni Taljaard, a Techno Park biokineticist and...
Environmental Authorisation For Improvements on the R44 Between Somerset West & Stellenbosch
Since 2013, plans to make improvements to the R44 between Somerset West and Stellenbosch have been developing at a slow pace. In a 2013 article on this website, Techno Park's Annermarie Cloete informed the Techno Park audience of this initial plan and what...
New Footpath Celebrates Local Culture in Techno Park Stellenbosch
Driving in to work lately, you may have noticed a few piles of bricks standing next to the road in Techno Avenue. Or perhaps you’ve seen groups of people in workmen’s clothes laying these bricks into what appears to be, on the face of it, a simple footpath. What would...
This School Will Help You See the Future Strategically
Creating Strategy in a VUCA world The ideas that have historically guided us — hierarchical structures of society and organisations, top-down governance, segmented industries, intellectual property, personal ownership — are becoming increasingly irrelevant. We have...
What To Do About Traffic in Techno Park?
We’re not even past February yet, but already it feels as if a number of things may be getting better in 2018. For starters, Day Zero, which until recently had been creeping steadily closer (at one stage people were estimating March 3 as the most likely date for the...
