Put Up …or Shut Up!
My brother phoned me a while ago and asked me about the progress of my PhD. When I answered him that I was exactly where I was in March 2008, he told me that...
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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.
Leadership in SA on the Brink of the Abyss?
Joseph Jaworski is the author of a fascinating book, i.e. “Synchronicity.” It deals with events which are more connected than just being random. He is an interesting person in his own right. His father...
Perdeberg, Rex Equus and the Icon
My friends in the wine industry tell me that there is more or less a hierarchy of wines. At the bottom end of the better quality wines you find popular premium, followed by super...
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 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....
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,...
