{"id":8861,"date":"2012-03-13T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/how-to-think-like-an-idiot-politician\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:08:36","slug":"how-to-think-like-an-idiot-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/how-to-think-like-an-idiot-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"How to think like an idiot politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put out a tender for a major Easter Event.<\/li>\n<li>Accept the lowest tender and then demand the winning company cuts the tender price by around 25% to R2 million.<\/li>\n<li>Take months and months to pay the pittance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Just for the record \u2013 thinking like a businessman goes like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A far more effective tender would have stated; \u201c<em>The municipality has R2 million to spend on an event \u2013 send us proposals based on your best version of this event given our seed capital injection<\/em>\u201c.<\/li>\n<li>Pay a substantial amount upfront, ask for performance guarantees, set measurable outcomes, give realistic time scales, monitor and measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on the above companies could have secured sponsors to boost their offering and win the tender by offering a R5m event for just R2m.<\/p>\n<p>It is called leverage, Roland. Like buying Italian shoes for the price of Bata Toughees!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put out a tender for a major Easter Event. Accept the lowest tender and then demand the winning company cuts the tender price by around 25% to R2 million. Take months and months to pay the pittance. Just for the record \u2013 thinking like a businessman goes like this: A far more effective tender would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-8861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}