Cultivated Roses, no matter how beautiful, have virtually no fragrance, in my experience. They look good, but lack core elements of the...

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...

Peter Senge popularised the term “learning organisations” in 1990, yet most businesses today are nothing like what he envisaged, in spite...

I see values on the walls or glass doors of most organisations. Most are good intentions, rather than current reality. Values are what...

My second year of teaching in Johannesburg was 1998. I was soon to discover a passion for business, and have the fire of positive...

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...

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...

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...

I am constantly confronted with old mindsets about the world of work. No experience of this is more apparent, nor more intrinsically...

Identity is a complex matter, made all the more so by well-meaning psychologists. At its heart, though, identity is about a label...

Isn’t it strange how some people subconsciously choose isolation over intimacy? I say “subconsciously” because it is seldom our desire to...

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...

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...

I am more convinced than ever that leadership and culture are not transferable. Leaders, according to Marty Linsky (Harvard Kennedy...

I recently rediscovered a definition of culture, by Richard Branson: "Culture is a way of doing things that (sustains an organisation’s)...

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...

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...

While desperately seeking alternatives to a Proteas cricket match – to maintain self-control – I recently began watching the 2003 movie...

All it took was one moment, and I knew that I was transformed! No, nothing spiritual here (welcome though that is); rather, I am...

Note, for instance, Marti the zebra’s feeling that he was made for something different to the pampered lifestyle in a zoo. Out of...