South African Business Leaders by Adele Shevel

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Behind the boardroom door: the personal stories behind South Africa’s top brands. South African Business Leaders: What Makes Them Tick by Adele Shevel — a business journalist of 15 years at the Sunday Times Business Times — sits down with the country’s most remarkable businessmen and women: founders, heads of family businesses, and captains of listed companies who shook up entire industries.

The interview list reads like a roll-call of modern South African success — Raymond Ackerman, Sol Kerzner, Christo Wiese, and many more. But Shevel digs deeper than success stories, into the personal habits that helped them reach their goals: the values, beliefs, and quirks of fate that got them where they are today.

Leaders are make-or-break people who create employment for hundreds of thousands. For aspiring entrepreneurs, business students, and anyone curious about what makes great leaders tick — an unmissable tour of South African enterprise at its best.

South African Business Leaders: What Makes Them Tick by Adele Shevel goes behind the boardroom door to reveal the personal stories behind South Africa’s top brands. A business journalist of over 15 years’ standing at the Sunday Times’ Business Times, Shevel sits down with the country’s most remarkable businessmen and women — founders, heads of family-run businesses, and captains of listed companies who shook up not just companies but entire industries.
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nThe interview list reads like a roll-call of modern South African business success: Raymond Ackerman, Whitey Basson, Carrol Boyes, Robbie Brozin, Adrian Gore, Brian Joffe, Sol Kerzner, Wendy Luhabe, Herman Mashaba, Phuthuma Nhleko, Stephen Saad, Christo Wiese, and many more. More than a compendium of success stories, Shevel digs into the personal habits that helped them reach their goals — and the values, beliefs, and quirks of fate that got them where they are today.
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nLeaders have an outsized influence over the businesses they run: they are make-or-break men and women who create employment for hundreds of thousands. For aspiring entrepreneurs, business students, and anyone curious about what makes great leaders tick, this is an unmissable tour of South African enterprise at its best.