From the monthly archives:

March 2009

6 Tips for finding start-up office space

by Sarah Isaacs on March 16, 2009

Please note this blog has been moved to blog.platform45.com

I have spent the last week looking at a dozen potential office spaces. The process has been painful, to say the least. Commercial estate agents are no different to the domestic kind, eager to talk about everything from their pets to their new car to their health record. Its a struggle to remain polite in the face of such trivial chatter with the deadline to find new space drawing closer. Here are some tips for the rookie seeker. [click to continue...]

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Can personality be measured?

by Sarah Isaacs on March 2, 2009

“Sarah is new to our team and the world of IT. Out of the office she is attaining an honours degree in Organisational Psychology at UCT. In the absence of technical skills, she offers a people-orientated approach and a glimpse into the mind of the technical layman. This is her first blog. Follow her on twitter” – Neil Henegan

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What is personality? Mainstream psychology textbooks define personality as an individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits, a durable disposition to behave in a particular way across a variety of situations. To simplify the concept even further, a leading personality model asserts that most of these traits are derived from five higher-order traits: extroversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. [click to continue...]

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