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    Authenticity and Change
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Apr 21, 2017
    • 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...
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    Values, Inclusion and Culture
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Sep 15, 2016
    • 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...
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    What has happened to L&D?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Aug 7, 2016
    • 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...
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    Are you Serious about your Values?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Mar 15, 2016
    • 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...
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    Losing Customer Loyalty: Lessons from MTN
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • May 12, 2015
    • 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...
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    How to Transform Eskom…and ourselves
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Feb 9, 2015
    • 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...
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    Five Ways that Effective Teams dominate
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jul 14, 2014
    • 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...
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    Four Lessons from Kenya
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Apr 7, 2013
    • 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...
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    Perceptions of Work Stability
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Feb 27, 2013
    • 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...
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    Is your Identity connected to your Work?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Apr 29, 2012
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Dec 9, 2011
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Sep 3, 2011
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Aug 14, 2011
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jul 3, 2011
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jun 25, 2011
    • 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)...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Mar 16, 2011
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jun 10, 2010
    • 1 min

    I’m with the Workers!

    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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • May 12, 2010
    • 2 min

    Brand Meek?

    While desperately seeking alternatives to a Proteas cricket match – to maintain self-control – I recently began watching the 2003 movie...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • May 5, 2010
    • 1 min

    A simple engagement

    All it took was one moment, and I knew that I was transformed! No, nothing spiritual here (welcome though that is); rather, I am...
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    Authenticity
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Feb 17, 2010
    • 2 min

    Authenticity

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