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Adam Craker

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Thinker, leader & entrepreneur. Consultant, CEO & board member. Director of @Jozi_My_Jozi and former CEO of @iqbusiness.

Johannesburg Katılım Nisan 2009
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Michael Jordaan@MichaelJordaan·
Being stone cold last on this list, one would think SA has massive oil sources, but no sun or coal to use for electricity
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2025 EV Share of New Car Sales, Top 10 Countries 1Norway 97% 2Nepal 73% 3Denmark69% 4Sweden 61% 5Iceland57% 6Finland56% 7Netherlands 56% 8China 53% 9 Singapore 47% 10 Belgium 43% EVs are now mainstream across much of the world visualcapitalist.com/ev-share-new-c… (SG data added)

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Adam Craker@crakeras·
Looking forward to seeing what you don’t do next @abelmike and what I can learn as I follow .
Mike Abel@abelmike

I’ve Discovered, A Month Into My Eight Week Sabbatical, That The Best New Year’s Resolution Is Maybe, Simply Not To Have One Not because we should lack intention, ambition, or care, but more because life isn’t a series of neat chapters with clean beginnings and endings. It’s a continuum. Uneven, unpredictable, occasionally chaotic. And honestly, who wants a smooth line anyway? A smooth line on a heartbeat monitor is a flat line… Life, if it’s working properly, has spikes and dips. Passions. Pauses. Pleasant surprises the Universe’s pitcher throws when you’re not looking. A month into stepping back after over three and a half decades of near-constant motion, what has surprised me most is not some great insight or revelation. It’s how content I’ve been to slow down. To do very little. To be present without needing to justify it as productive. I expected boredom. I found calm. Not the calm of indifference, but the calm of proportion and perhaps, moderation. The kind that comes when you put a little space between what’s happening in the world and what’s happening inside you. For someone wired to run at fires rather than away from them, that distinction has mattered. What I’ve also come to appreciate is that space and time don’t automatically create reflection. Often, they’re consumed by sheer recovery alone. Downtime becomes collapse rather than reconsideration. Paradoxically, we sometimes need space and time in order to create space and time - long enough for the nervous system to settle, and for thinking to move beyond a series of reactions into a wiser perspective. There’s a familiar metaphor about a large white page with a small black dot in the middle. When people are asked what they see, many say “the black dot,” not the big open page. Social media trains us relentlessly to fixate on the dot. The danger isn’t that it doesn’t exist. It’s letting it dominate our landscape. This past month has reminded me that it’s possible to see clearly without having to stand too close. To remain engaged without being engulfed. To care deeply without living in a permanent state of emotional readiness and mobilisation. As the year rolls into next, the only promise I feel confident making to myself is a modest one: to try to worry less about what I cannot change, without pretending it doesn’t matter. To continue observing and thinking, but to put more space between the world’s crises and my emotional response to them. Whether this moment deepens or passes, I don’t yet know. I’m not in a hurry to define it, or find out. For once, urgency feels, thankfully, unnecessary. And that is in no way shaped by the state and the world, but more, for now, a personal choice and decision. (Image: my holiday sea view, but as if painted by the artist, William Turner 1775 -1851)

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iqbusiness@iqbusiness·
If you think AI tools alone will improve efficiencies and grow your bottom line, you’re wrong. Real growth happens when you understand how teams, leaders and ops use it best. More from @Biased77 (head of AI advisory and talent) on @TechCentral: techcentral.co.za/ai-is-not-a-te…
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iqbusiness@iqbusiness·
This year we… ✅ Achieved Level 1 B-BBEE certification ✅ Won a YES Award for youth empowerment ✅ Recognised as a Top Consulting Firm ✅ Awarded Top Employer for a second year ✅ Certified B-Corporation #YourGoTo #Leadership #DigitalIntegration #iqbusiness
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Adam Craker@crakeras·
After 15 years as CEO of @iqbusiness, the time has come to hand over the leadership baton. On 1 November 2025 I reached an important personal milestone. It marked 15 years since I was appointed CEO of iqbusiness, having joined The IQ Business Group in 2009. Over the past few months, as we have been shaping our strategy to 2030 and reflecting on what we have built with our teams, clients and partners, I have concluded that this is the right moment to enable a new CEO to lead iqbusiness into its next chapter. Over the last three years we have reshaped the foundations of the business. We became part of the Reunert Limited Group, with Drona Holdings alongside us as shareholders. We merged with +OneX and rebranded to iqbusiness with our gigantiq, iqx and midnight sub-brands, creating South Africa’s largest Digital Integrator. We have also restructured to ensure sustainability and to free up investment capacity in a sector, and a world, that are changing faster than ever. We have traded through some of the toughest local and global conditions in recent memory and I am proud that we are now emerging stronger, with the new financial year starting ahead of plan and our outlook building confidence. It matters to me that I hand over with iqbusiness on a positive trajectory. I remain a committed and significant shareholder alongside our Partners and broader shareholders. I believe the next five years have great potential for iqbusiness and for the value we can continue to create with our clients. The Board has asked Rob Godlonton to take up the role of CEO. Rob is currently our Managing Partner of the Solutions Services Group, the leader of iqx and the former CEO of +OneX. He knows our business, our clients and our people extremely well and is ideally placed to lead iqbusiness into this next phase. I will support Rob and our leadership team through a defined transition period that runs to the end of February 2026. For our people and our clients, the most important message is continuity. Your iqbusiness teams, account leads and delivery commitments remain in place. Our strategy, our role as a Digital Integrator and our commitment to growing people, growing business and growing Africa, as one, are unchanged. I am excited about my next chapter and the opportunity to further my role @Jozi_My_Jozi, the inner-city revitalisation movement in Johannesburg. As a founder and director of JMJ, I will continue to work closely with iqbusiness in this ecosystem, alongside partners such as Nando’s, Anglo American, Standard Bank, Wits University and We Are Bizarre. JMJ has become an important expression of our belief that business can and should play a constructive role in society. Thank you to every iqer, client, partner and friend who has been part of this journey over the past 15 years. It has been a privilege to serve as CEO. Once an iqer, always an iqer. #GESHIDO
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