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Forgive Us Our Trespasses…
The Lord gave us his prayer in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as [...]
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I have been driving around in my old VW Kombi for close to 8 years. It was 11 years old, and although it had relatively low kilometres, I knew it was time to start looking for a new car. This was a difficult decision, as I am of the opinion that a car is a [...]
Having made the decision to take a bit of time out after a hectic year or two, I took the time to watch a lot of sport. This included a number of cricket games, and a few reruns of rugby and soccer games as well. Watching them, I started thinking about the strong correlation between [...]
SAB was a “small” 26 million hectolitre beer brewery when it acquired Miller in the USA in 2002. Miller was more or less double the size of SAB, at 52 million hectolitres brewing capacity. Normal tenets in the field of acquisitions will tell you that the joining together of 2 disparate size companies seldom works. [...]
Successful business people share a number of similar character traits. The 4 I would like to write about today, are about being visionary, having good judgement, being courageous, and having drive (or being driven)! BEING A VISIONARY Analysing the successful business people in the world today, I have come to the conclusion that being [...]
In an article I wrote a while ago, namely “The 7 Forces driving an Organization”, I mentioned ethos being one of them. It is not only the first force one should take into account, but also the most powerful. Yet it is also the one force that is the most underestimated; actually the one force [...]
Dealing with complexity is not an easy task. First and foremost you require a worldview that will enable you to understand and deal with the complexity. I am not sure which is more difficult – understanding it or dealing with it! The worldview that I am a strong proponent of though, is the systemic worldview. [...]
When I was a young man (biologically that is!), I did consider myself to be a fast learner. In those days, we still thought someone was intelligent if they could memorize a lot of stuff. I would read my studies through a few times, and then I wold know enough to pass the exam. And then I [...]
I recently had a chat with a few friends about how life passes us by at a rate which is tremendous. And the older we get, the faster time passes us by. The factor that shows this the best, is the growth of our children. My eldest is 22. It feels like yesterday that I [...]
Much has been said about the need to be creative and innovative. The fields of application in business range from new products and services (product innovation), to new ways of doing things within the organization (operational innovation), to new ways of creating value for the customer (business model innovation). Organizations such as IBM have done [...]
I always try to convey to my MBA students that a strong focus on customers and employees are the holy grail in the search for sustainable business success. Should one research the vision statements and credo’s of businesses, they all (the most of them in any case) make the point that their people are their [...]
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I am passionate about teaching and coaching. I love to share the knowledge and experience I have been fortunate to pick up in my career over the past 30 years. My areas of interest are strategy, systems thinking, finance, business in general, leadership, culture and values. I have served on the executive of 2 companies over the last decade, and filled the position of CEO and MD of both.
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