It’s easy to see how striking workers have lost the plot sometimes, when seen from a commercial standpoint.
Yet if one considers how top management in the self-same organisations measure their benefits – and salaries – in millions, I believe there is another view.
In Jim Collins’s ground-breaking book “Good to Great”, he mentions how Nucor Steel [...]
While desperately seeking alternatives to a Proteas cricket match – to maintain self-control – I recently began watching the 2003 movie Anger Management.
I was struck once again (if you’ll excuse the pun) by a particular scene, where Adam Sandler’s character is hoping to be relieved of his need for therapy, but instead finds himself really [...]
All it took was one moment, and I knew that I was transformed!
No, nothing spiritual here (welcome though that is); rather, I am referring to a case of exceptional service, from a JHB North plumber.
The background: I am notoriously inept when it comes to being a handyman. Yet I am the best equipped to facilitate [...]
In “You’ve Got Mail”, Tom Hanks says that “The Godfather” is the sum of all wisdom. I beg to differ. I believe it is “Madagascar”. Besides King Julian’s rants, there is much to be learned about human behaviour.
Note, for instance, Marti the zebra’s feeling that he was made for something different to the pampered lifestyle [...]