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    Stress: How mindsets and networks can help
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Apr 13, 2020
    • 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.
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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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    Eat all you Can Business
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jun 3, 2016
    • 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...
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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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    Why Group Coaching is a Misnomer
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Nov 4, 2015
    • 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...
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    Xenophobia or Conditioning?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Apr 17, 2015
    • 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...
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    Deshun Deysel on Change and Dissonance
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Feb 17, 2015
    • 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...
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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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    Losing the Wood for the Trees
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Sep 13, 2014
    • 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...
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    10 000 Hours…or the Truth?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jul 1, 2014
    • 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...
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    Working with Human Rights Rant
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Mar 21, 2014
    • 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...
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    Graeme Smith versus The Gambia
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Feb 1, 2013
    • 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...
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    HR: the biggest obstacle to Organisational Learning?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Nov 27, 2012
    • 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,...
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    Security: Conspicuous in its Absence
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Aug 29, 2012
    • 2 min

    Security: Conspicuous in its Absence

    The recent incident, whereby Orlando Pirates fans hurled fireworks at the Supersport goalkeeper, raised some interesting questions....
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    Best Practice?
    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jun 12, 2012
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Apr 3, 2012
    • 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...
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    Hylton Gudmanz
    • Jan 14, 2012
    • 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...
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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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