<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ITINews - Insurance Times and Investments Online Press Office News - Exhibition and Event Organizers</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za</link><description>The complete South African Financial Services News and Information Portal</description><copyright>Copyright (C) 2006</copyright><managingEditor>editor@itinews.co.za</managingEditor><webMaster>webmaster@itinews.co.za</webMaster><language>en</language><generator>ITINews RSS Generator</generator><item><title>Africa tour announced for "Buyology", revolutionary advertising and neuroscience study</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=493F5A70-D755-4D32-BC1B-BDBDE73B5CC0</link><description>First Africa symposium in Johannesburg in March - The impact of subliminal advertising and the revolutionary influence of neuroscience in marketing will be the subjects of a Africa-wide tour in 2009 by bestselling author and branding expert, Martin Lindstrom.</description><author>marcel@globalleadersevents.com (Marcel Baillache)</author><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:00:00 AM GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leadership and management expert Ken Blanchard to speak at full day public event in Botswana</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=7C6864CC-42BD-439E-8569-4351D90E2377</link><description>Leading at a Higher Level - people don't leave organisations, they leave managers - Ken Blanchard, the author of the 12 million-selling One Minute Manager (co-authored with Spencer Johnson), will speak live at a full-day event in Gaborone, on November 18, 2008.</description><author>marcel@globalleadersevents.com (Marcel Baillache)</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Edward De Bono urges African business leaders to challenge ideas, boundaries and polarisation</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=941498B1-D719-46D1-A4F6-E58E3A66B5C1</link><description>We can stand apart in the way in which our employees and our organisations think - Edward de Bono, the world's foremost creative thinker, has urged South Africans to "challenge dominant ideas, challenge boundaries, and challenge polarisation" in order to improve themselves, their organisations and their communities.</description><author>marcel@globalleadersevents.com (Marcel Baillache)</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:00:00 AM GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Global human resources giants, Ulrich and Gratton, to appear exclusively together in SA</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=46E10729-FCBD-4C79-A0F1-5F8CEFA5B6DA</link><description>"The war for talent is over and talent won" - The world's two principal human resource strategists - Dave Ulrich and Lynda Gratton - will appear live and in person in Johannesburg in August as part of a world-first double-header from the pair.</description><author>marcel@globalleadersevents.com (Marcel Baillache)</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:00 AM GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creator of "Lateral Thinking" to give full-day conference in South Africa</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=D9CF87E1-71B8-4139-8E6B-6904840FE150</link><description>Edward de Bono - Live and in person in Johannesburg - The world's foremost creative and lateral thinker, Edward de Bono, will present his Creativity and Lateral Thinking programme live and in person in Johannesburg on June 4, 2008.</description><author>marcel@globalleadersevents.com (Marcel Baillache)</author><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:00:00 AM GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tom Peters showcases a new kind of excellence</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=769237F9-9D71-4C90-9A08-A0F5D423D6EC</link><description>Today's new consumer market is "insanely under-served" by almost all companies - A quarter of a century after he revolutionised corporate strategy with the publication of his groundbreaking book In Search of Excellence (with Robert  H Waterman Jr), Tom Peters is heading back to South Africa with his new vision of excellence.</description><author>editor@itinews.co.za (Marcel Baillache )</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:00:00 AM GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Global Leaders announces full-day event with business strategist Tom Peters, live and in person</title><link>http://www.itinews.co.za/companyview.aspx?cocategoryid=51&amp;companyid=22405&amp;itemid=0A07BFF8-09A4-404E-807E-64A34D564CFB</link><description>Excellence, Always! - Are you distinct or becoming extinct - Tom Peters, one of the world's leading business strategists, will appear live and in person in Johannesburg on March 12, 2008. 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