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...

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