Multiply or Die!
This title sounds like the law of the jungle. It could also have been read as survival of the fittest. Let me explain what I mean. I had the opportunity to attend a morning...
Category: Management 101
How Entrepreneurial is Your Training?
Entrepreneurship training sucks. Most of them in any case! Way back in 1993 I started with my MBA. One of the first articles I stumbled upon was “Teaching Entrepreneurship through the Classics.” The author...
Sharing Your Knowledge No Longer a Nice-to-Do
A number of years ago, knowledge used to be viewed as a source of competitive advantage. Those who knew were in a better position than those who did not. Those who could memorize masses...
Having God Moments
I had a nice long chat a week or so ago with someone I respect a lot. He has been a mentor, coach, friend, brother, for as long as I can remember. He told...
People Cannot be Empowered!
People cannot be empowered. We can and should create an environment within which they feel themselves safe to empower themselves. Empowerment is mostly a psychological phenomenon, where the individual feels he/she can! And that cannot be done for them, but needs to be done together with them.
Leaders Changing Culture
The three elements of leadership, organisational culture, and change management intelligence combine to form a cohesive whole that is distinguishable but not really separable. Leadership is about managing change and operating within, as well...
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,...
Men Need to Tap into their Feminine Side!
This is a redo of a blog posting I wrote several years ago. It is probably more important today than it was way back then. South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, is characterised...
