Productivity is not Performance
With May 1 being Worker's Day locally, I was struck by Ryan Wong's recent article about productivity "theatre," where we do things to...
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Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Gone in 60 Minutes?
With the pandemic fast-tacking a shift to online shopping and the fuel price making delivery 'much-of-a-muchness' , something's "gotta...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 4 min
Are you leading in a Proactive or Reactive way?
Being proactive as a New Generation leader is vital. What surprised me is how reactive I had become...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 6 min
Four Letters for Leaders in 2021
As we embrace a new year, we have all experienced what Charles Dickens would call "the best of times" (with family/applying new...
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- 7 min
Innovative Companies and What We Can Learn from Them
Richard Sherman learns 4 lessons from some innovative companies. Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Steve Jobbs, Creel...
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- 6 min
4 Signs that Your Staff are Experiencing Digital Depression, and How to Intervene.
Within a few weeks of the spread of COVID-19, managers started noticing declining output from their staff.
Tom Macquet
- 4 min
Calm in the chaos: The power of accepting entropy in our lives
I love how "sudden realisation" can come upon us randomly whilst we go about our days. Yesterday was no exception. I had taken the kids...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
How to develop leaders like LEIA
Photo credit: Marija Zaric Responsive, engaging leaders don't use the Force to manipulate people. Instead, they develop an army of...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Stress: How mindsets and networks can help
Stress is mostly seen as negative, yet it builds muscles and the right mindset can build sustainable results in our lives, too.
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Authenticity and Change
Cultivated Roses, no matter how beautiful, have virtually no fragrance, in my experience. They look good, but lack core elements of the...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
How Fragile We Are
Sting, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, recorded an emotional, unplugged version of his song “Fragile” in 2001,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Values, Inclusion and Culture
Values are not words confined to a wall in Head Office. They are the beliefs we live out on a day-to-day basis. As Marshall Goldsmith has...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
What has happened to L&D?
Peter Senge popularised the term “learning organisations” in 1990, yet most businesses today are nothing like what he envisaged, in spite...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Eat all you Can Business
Business is a buffet (smörgåsbord), but management is a set menu. When we choose to order off the set menu at a restaurant, we are...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Are you Serious about your Values?
I see values on the walls or glass doors of most organisations. Most are good intentions, rather than current reality. Values are what...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Why Group Coaching is a Misnomer
In the current global economy, we all need to economise, to maximise the use of our resources: to do more with less, so to speak. The...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Losing Customer Loyalty: Lessons from MTN
My second year of teaching in Johannesburg was 1998. I was soon to discover a passion for business, and have the fire of positive...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Xenophobia or Conditioning?
The recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa have concerned me as much as any peace-loving citizen. Having travelled a fair bit...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Deshun Deysel on Change and Dissonance
When change is introduced it often brings about immediate Cognitive Dissonance(CD). Leon Festinger (an American Psychologist) proposed...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
How to Transform Eskom…and ourselves
From time to time I am asked how I would transform an organisation, be it Eskom at present, or the SABC. Often, in South Africa, this...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Losing the Wood for the Trees
Internet policies are a window on the corporate soul. I see this manifesting in two noticeable differentiators: connectivity and social...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Support: a Neglected Factor in Smartphone Purchases
Smartphones are technologically advanced, and therefore need excellent support, both from a help-desk perspective and repairs or...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Five Ways that Effective Teams dominate
The German Team’s success at the World Cup is not only a triumph of football, but of teamwork. Executive teams can certainly apply some...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
10 000 Hours…or the Truth?
Malcolm Gladwell introduced us to the idea that 10 000 hours is approximately what it takes to be successful – an expert – at a...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Working with Human Rights Rant
We are not so free. We are steered to cubicles, chained by policies and The Powerful’s desire to see us when they need us. We easily...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Four Lessons from Kenya
My recent business trip to Nairobi was my first time in Kenya, and my reflections on the time are contained below. 1. Gratitude: I live...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Perceptions of Work Stability
I am constantly confronted with old mindsets about the world of work. No experience of this is more apparent, nor more intrinsically...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Graeme Smith versus The Gambia
Congratulations to Graeme Smith, who takes the field today, earning his 100th Test as Protea Captain. Some of us may recall how he took...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
HR: the biggest obstacle to Organisational Learning?
Organisational Development (OD) often, bizarrely, falls under Human Resources (HR). HR, itself, oversees talent management – attraction,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Security: Conspicuous in its Absence
The recent incident, whereby Orlando Pirates fans hurled fireworks at the Supersport goalkeeper, raised some interesting questions....
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Best Practice?
Are we meant to go where others have gone before? We’ve long spoken of basic human needs, and Maslow’s hierarchy is most quoted, but the...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Is your Identity connected to your Work?
Identity is a complex matter, made all the more so by well-meaning psychologists. At its heart, though, identity is about a label...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Interpersonally Yours
I have had the privilege of working with many organisations on their relationship dynamics. There are multiple trends, best summed up by...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
A better way for UJ?
I am still gutted by the tragic death of Mama Sekwena, whose son sought a late admission to the University of Johannesburg. Mama Molete...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Authentic Jerk or Juggernaut?
Isn’t it strange how some people subconsciously choose isolation over intimacy? I say “subconsciously” because it is seldom our desire to...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
True Friends?
Who are your Two a.m. friends? I am referring to the ones you can call at two a.m. when you’re in trouble, not those who update their...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Lowest Common Denominator (LCD)
I am tired of academics. As someone about to begin his masters degree, working with a leading business school, this came as something of...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Overstretching eBucks?
I love FNB. They were there for me when I was 16, and they’re there for me now that I’m…well, now. Michael Jordaan is a visionary, with a...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
So Right, yet Unsustainable
I’m not often distressed by excess, but a recent trip to Mugg and Bean confirms that they have lost the plot. One used to be able to...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
The non-transferables
I am more convinced than ever that leadership and culture are not transferable. Leaders, according to Marty Linsky (Harvard Kennedy...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Power and Fear
Where does our Power lie? We are not always aware of the power of our words. Gossip assassinates multiple colleagues, as does favouritism...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Culture and Change
I recently rediscovered a definition of culture, by Richard Branson: "Culture is a way of doing things that (sustains an organisation’s)...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Real Virtuality
I have been reading Total Engagement, by Byron Reeves, and am struck by the trend towards inclusion and participation. Since the early...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Engagement Rant
Engagement is a term we use for pre-marital commitment, as well as a good movie. I prefer to use the metaphor of driving a car. When one...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Job Creation
South Africa has allocated more resources to job creation than ever before. There will be more funds available to create work than ever...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Being Prepared?
The tragic earthquake reported today in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a great reminder of what is truly important. In such circumstances,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
U2 can be Successful
I am taken with the feedback from last night’s U2 concert in Johannesburg. Queues for food and drinks were long – not the least because...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Losing our jobs?
The rhetoric emanating from the Polokwane conference this weekend is generally positive. It is indeed time for consensus that “Mahala...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
True Ubuntu
I hear a lot of talk about Ubuntu, without commensurate understanding. “Ubuntu” is characterised by a key phrase in African languages:...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
The Language of Change
I am taken by the impact that our words have. Full Stop. As children, we were often found reciting, “Sticks and stones can break my...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 4 min
Productivity is not Performance
With May 1 being Worker's Day locally, I was struck by Ryan Wong's recent article about productivity "theatre," where we do things to...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Gone in 60 Minutes?
With the pandemic fast-tacking a shift to online shopping and the fuel price making delivery 'much-of-a-muchness' , something's "gotta...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 4 min
Are you leading in a Proactive or Reactive way?
Being proactive as a New Generation leader is vital. What surprised me is how reactive I had become...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 6 min
Four Letters for Leaders in 2021
As we embrace a new year, we have all experienced what Charles Dickens would call "the best of times" (with family/applying new...
-
- 7 min
Innovative Companies and What We Can Learn from Them
Richard Sherman learns 4 lessons from some innovative companies. Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Steve Jobbs, Creel...
-
- 6 min
4 Signs that Your Staff are Experiencing Digital Depression, and How to Intervene.
Within a few weeks of the spread of COVID-19, managers started noticing declining output from their staff.
Tom Macquet
- 4 min
Calm in the chaos: The power of accepting entropy in our lives
I love how "sudden realisation" can come upon us randomly whilst we go about our days. Yesterday was no exception. I had taken the kids...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
How to develop leaders like LEIA
Photo credit: Marija Zaric Responsive, engaging leaders don't use the Force to manipulate people. Instead, they develop an army of...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Stress: How mindsets and networks can help
Stress is mostly seen as negative, yet it builds muscles and the right mindset can build sustainable results in our lives, too.
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Authenticity and Change
Cultivated Roses, no matter how beautiful, have virtually no fragrance, in my experience. They look good, but lack core elements of the...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
How Fragile We Are
Sting, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, recorded an emotional, unplugged version of his song “Fragile” in 2001,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Values, Inclusion and Culture
Values are not words confined to a wall in Head Office. They are the beliefs we live out on a day-to-day basis. As Marshall Goldsmith has...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
What has happened to L&D?
Peter Senge popularised the term “learning organisations” in 1990, yet most businesses today are nothing like what he envisaged, in spite...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Eat all you Can Business
Business is a buffet (smörgåsbord), but management is a set menu. When we choose to order off the set menu at a restaurant, we are...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Are you Serious about your Values?
I see values on the walls or glass doors of most organisations. Most are good intentions, rather than current reality. Values are what...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Why Group Coaching is a Misnomer
In the current global economy, we all need to economise, to maximise the use of our resources: to do more with less, so to speak. The...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Losing Customer Loyalty: Lessons from MTN
My second year of teaching in Johannesburg was 1998. I was soon to discover a passion for business, and have the fire of positive...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Xenophobia or Conditioning?
The recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa have concerned me as much as any peace-loving citizen. Having travelled a fair bit...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Deshun Deysel on Change and Dissonance
When change is introduced it often brings about immediate Cognitive Dissonance(CD). Leon Festinger (an American Psychologist) proposed...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
How to Transform Eskom…and ourselves
From time to time I am asked how I would transform an organisation, be it Eskom at present, or the SABC. Often, in South Africa, this...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Losing the Wood for the Trees
Internet policies are a window on the corporate soul. I see this manifesting in two noticeable differentiators: connectivity and social...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Support: a Neglected Factor in Smartphone Purchases
Smartphones are technologically advanced, and therefore need excellent support, both from a help-desk perspective and repairs or...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Five Ways that Effective Teams dominate
The German Team’s success at the World Cup is not only a triumph of football, but of teamwork. Executive teams can certainly apply some...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
10 000 Hours…or the Truth?
Malcolm Gladwell introduced us to the idea that 10 000 hours is approximately what it takes to be successful – an expert – at a...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Working with Human Rights Rant
We are not so free. We are steered to cubicles, chained by policies and The Powerful’s desire to see us when they need us. We easily...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Four Lessons from Kenya
My recent business trip to Nairobi was my first time in Kenya, and my reflections on the time are contained below. 1. Gratitude: I live...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Perceptions of Work Stability
I am constantly confronted with old mindsets about the world of work. No experience of this is more apparent, nor more intrinsically...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Graeme Smith versus The Gambia
Congratulations to Graeme Smith, who takes the field today, earning his 100th Test as Protea Captain. Some of us may recall how he took...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
HR: the biggest obstacle to Organisational Learning?
Organisational Development (OD) often, bizarrely, falls under Human Resources (HR). HR, itself, oversees talent management – attraction,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Security: Conspicuous in its Absence
The recent incident, whereby Orlando Pirates fans hurled fireworks at the Supersport goalkeeper, raised some interesting questions....
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Best Practice?
Are we meant to go where others have gone before? We’ve long spoken of basic human needs, and Maslow’s hierarchy is most quoted, but the...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Is your Identity connected to your Work?
Identity is a complex matter, made all the more so by well-meaning psychologists. At its heart, though, identity is about a label...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Interpersonally Yours
I have had the privilege of working with many organisations on their relationship dynamics. There are multiple trends, best summed up by...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
A better way for UJ?
I am still gutted by the tragic death of Mama Sekwena, whose son sought a late admission to the University of Johannesburg. Mama Molete...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Authentic Jerk or Juggernaut?
Isn’t it strange how some people subconsciously choose isolation over intimacy? I say “subconsciously” because it is seldom our desire to...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
True Friends?
Who are your Two a.m. friends? I am referring to the ones you can call at two a.m. when you’re in trouble, not those who update their...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Lowest Common Denominator (LCD)
I am tired of academics. As someone about to begin his masters degree, working with a leading business school, this came as something of...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Overstretching eBucks?
I love FNB. They were there for me when I was 16, and they’re there for me now that I’m…well, now. Michael Jordaan is a visionary, with a...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
So Right, yet Unsustainable
I’m not often distressed by excess, but a recent trip to Mugg and Bean confirms that they have lost the plot. One used to be able to...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
The non-transferables
I am more convinced than ever that leadership and culture are not transferable. Leaders, according to Marty Linsky (Harvard Kennedy...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Power and Fear
Where does our Power lie? We are not always aware of the power of our words. Gossip assassinates multiple colleagues, as does favouritism...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Culture and Change
I recently rediscovered a definition of culture, by Richard Branson: "Culture is a way of doing things that (sustains an organisation’s)...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Real Virtuality
I have been reading Total Engagement, by Byron Reeves, and am struck by the trend towards inclusion and participation. Since the early...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Engagement Rant
Engagement is a term we use for pre-marital commitment, as well as a good movie. I prefer to use the metaphor of driving a car. When one...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Job Creation
South Africa has allocated more resources to job creation than ever before. There will be more funds available to create work than ever...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
Being Prepared?
The tragic earthquake reported today in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a great reminder of what is truly important. In such circumstances,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 1 min
U2 can be Successful
I am taken with the feedback from last night’s U2 concert in Johannesburg. Queues for food and drinks were long – not the least because...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Losing our jobs?
The rhetoric emanating from the Polokwane conference this weekend is generally positive. It is indeed time for consensus that “Mahala...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
True Ubuntu
I hear a lot of talk about Ubuntu, without commensurate understanding. “Ubuntu” is characterised by a key phrase in African languages:...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
The Language of Change
I am taken by the impact that our words have. Full Stop. As children, we were often found reciting, “Sticks and stones can break my...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 4 min
Productivity is not Performance
With May 1 being Worker's Day locally, I was struck by Ryan Wong's recent article about productivity "theatre," where we do things to...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Gone in 60 Minutes?
With the pandemic fast-tacking a shift to online shopping and the fuel price making delivery 'much-of-a-muchness' , something's "gotta...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 4 min
Are you leading in a Proactive or Reactive way?
Being proactive as a New Generation leader is vital. What surprised me is how reactive I had become...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 6 min
Four Letters for Leaders in 2021
As we embrace a new year, we have all experienced what Charles Dickens would call "the best of times" (with family/applying new...
-
- 7 min
Innovative Companies and What We Can Learn from Them
Richard Sherman learns 4 lessons from some innovative companies. Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Steve Jobbs, Creel...
-
- 6 min
4 Signs that Your Staff are Experiencing Digital Depression, and How to Intervene.
Within a few weeks of the spread of COVID-19, managers started noticing declining output from their staff.
Tom Macquet
- 4 min
Calm in the chaos: The power of accepting entropy in our lives
I love how "sudden realisation" can come upon us randomly whilst we go about our days. Yesterday was no exception. I had taken the kids...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
How to develop leaders like LEIA
Photo credit: Marija Zaric Responsive, engaging leaders don't use the Force to manipulate people. Instead, they develop an army of...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Stress: How mindsets and networks can help
Stress is mostly seen as negative, yet it builds muscles and the right mindset can build sustainable results in our lives, too.
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
Authenticity and Change
Cultivated Roses, no matter how beautiful, have virtually no fragrance, in my experience. They look good, but lack core elements of the...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 2 min
How Fragile We Are
Sting, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, recorded an emotional, unplugged version of his song “Fragile” in 2001,...
Hylton Gudmanz
- 3 min
Values, Inclusion and Culture
Values are not words confined to a wall in Head Office. They are the beliefs we live out on a day-to-day basis. As Marshall Goldsmith has...