Are You Full of PEE?
When I started lecturing on undergraduate programmes at the Faculty of Military Science in 1991, I started off using the techniques typical of the day. Unfortunately I frequently found half of my class asleep....
Monthly Archive: May 2010
Viva Boney M, Viva!
Boney M had a hit in the early eighties with “Don’t Kill the World.” The underlying message in this song is as valid today as it was then, if not more so! I heard...
Are you a strategic architect?
I recently had the opportunity to deliver a talk at a conference for teachers on the topic of “Are you a Strategic Architect?” The conference was attended by principals, deputy principals, heads of departments,...
Can your People Act Independently?
Leaders and managers need to help their subordinates to grow and develop into people who can use their thinking abilities. As I hinted in the posting on using your brain cells to think, this...
Are Your Brain Cells Aligned and in Working Order?
Henry Ford has been quoted as saying that thinking is the most difficult work there is, which is probably why so few people engage in it. When I use this quote in my classes,...
Will the Real Owner of Backsberg Please Stand up?
I am a teetotaler – unashamedly so. However, in my MBA classes at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), the one company that provides me with so much referencing material, is Backsberg. Backsberg...
