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Hello,

And welcome to the world of Leadership on the Leadership Platform, where we strive to share much of what we have learned from more than a decade of interviewing, training, consulting, and writing while enjoying our own personal leadership journeys as individuals and as an organisation.

Leadership Platform can be described as a movement with a vision to create a more "seamless" society by removing barriers to excellence through:

multiplying Leaders
improving attitude
researching and teaching universal principles
and implementing strategic projects that improve society

We now invite you and your organisation to join our movement as you embark on your personal and organisational leadership journeys.

Enjoy the site and when you're ready, register yourself so that you can comment, interact and subscribe to online content.

We look forward to walking with you.

Adriaan Groenewald, Co-Founder LP

Our National Vision

A proposed National Development Plan was handed over to President Jacob Zuma recently - Nov 2011. A vision statement appears on page 41.

We want your feedback on this vision...participate in our poll on the right >>

CLICK HERE to view the NDP Vision Extract (Please note: it is a 1,4MB file and will take time to load - please do not close your browser)

Click here to go and see our national values, and participate by adding your own.

Featured Articles

Our Future Depends on You, our Young Leaders

25.01.2012 23:11 Comments: 0 Categories: Star Workplace Tags: young leaders seamless leaders gareth armstrong

...What our National Planning Commission is in effect telling us here is that we need to change the way we understand leadership and adopt what we have coined: Seamless Leadership; if we are to accomplish that which has been asked of us. Why am I mentioning all this? Because a truly seamless society, lead by seamless leaders – whether in homes, businesses or civil society – depends to a large extent on how and what we are doing to develop those who will be present when 2030 arrives... To the youth: ...We are launching an initiative right here in The Star Workplace. We call it our “You(th) the Leader Series”. What we are going to give you once a month is a lesson in leadership...

A Seamless Attitude

18.01.2012 00:55 Comments: 0 Categories: Star Workplace Tags: seamless leadership seamless attitude abcs

The critical role that a seamless attitude plays in life was sharply brought home to me a week ago when we heard the distressing news that two sons of friends from the Eastern Cape had died in a plane crash. The two brothers were in fact participating in a final flight before the one brother was to qualify for his pilot’s licence. After we heard the news we phoned the mother of the two boys and it was an intensely emotional experience. Why mention this matter? Life is about attitude. It really is! Life is also about traumatic and painful experiences as indicated above. The workplace is filled with challenging situations. Nothing impacts more on personal happiness and leadership ability than a heritage of a positive and seamless attitude towards life in general and in particular towards our leadership role in the work place and in our families. What is a seamless attitude?

Imperatives of Leadership Excellence

11.01.2012 00:25 Comments: 0 Categories: Star Workplace Tags: leadership excellence imperatives letting go

Readers of the Leadership Platform column are in general avid seekers after leadership excellence, and our passion is to assist you where possible. As this is the commencement of a new year it is appropriate for us to share some imperatives of leadership excellence. The three we are discussing are all keys to opening the door to emotional and mental leadership maturity. The three are ‘obedience’, ‘letting go’ and ‘values’. 1. The first universal principle is obedience. Obedience is not an optional thing in human behaviour. No matter what we do we are being obedient to some idea, impulse or influence. Thinking, hesitating, evaluating and doing are all manifestations of obedience. We cannot move from point a to point b without being obedient to some feeling or perception.

Leadership Principles for 2012

14.12.2011 03:44 Comments: 0 Categories: Business Report LP Tags: leadership principles leading in 2012 leadership journeys

As a parting thought for 2011, following more than a decade of interviewing the today's mentioned (see articles BR articles for more) and hundreds of other leaders; sitting one on one with hundreds of top leaders; and rubbing shoulders with some of the best, here are 12 leadership principles you can strive to understand and live in 2012:

A Leadership Challenge to All South Africans

14.12.2011 03:39 Comments: 0 Categories: Business Report LP Tags: leadership adriaan groenewald leadership confidence

In August this year we launched the first ever Business Report Leadership Platform page that appears every second Thursday. Since then we placed leaders like Pres Jacob Zuma, Governor Gill Marcus, Pieter Uys, Mardia Van Der Walt-Korsten, Bheki Sibiya and Nick Badminton on the platform and under the spotlight, in reflective mode, to learn from them regarding leadership. We also shared leadership principles, promoted leadership events, introduced leadership books and commented on leadership challenges in society. We uncovered, by personal contact, once again the rich heritage of South African leaders. Many of them have evolved into exceptional leaders from exposure to the uniquely difficult environment and challenges that are par for the course in SA. It is our passion to transfer much of this leadership excellence to millions out there.

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