Highway traffic illustration Travelling a busy highway is symbolic of all of us travelling during our daily activities. From an economics point of view we can classify the hundreds of different travellers into categories of professions, social interest and functions for the day. Getting into the lives of every driver and passenger is a different […]
Are we (leader-managers) sleepwalking towards disaster? I had this epiphany-like question emerging in my mind whilst listening to Mr Trevor Manual addressing a hall filled with leaders at the recent Die Burger and Kaapstad Sakekamer Business Leader of the Year event. He prefaced this epiphany by referring to South Africa’s presidential oath and with an […]
Patience and impatience are triggers of entry into different worlds. Impatience Impatience takes on different meanings. On the one hand it may be said that impatience generates action. Yes, that may be true in the same way that a storm motivates us to seek protection and safety. On the other hand, impatience can be a […]
Now, more than ever before in the history of our global community, we are seeing our current leaders struggling under the pressures of a dynamic, ever moving environment. We see the practice of “reactive leadership”, which is really another term for “management”, but seemingly not the visionary, proactive leadership every human being on the planet […]
Many of us follow the popular The X Factor series from the United States. The theme of the show is to seek out exceptional singing talent, hence the term X Factor. Viewers are often amazed at the talents that are manifested in the show. The focus of this column is on leadership and over the […]
According to Graham Hill, Head Coach of SA Swimming and Personal Coach for Olympic Gold medalist Chad Le Clos, his achievement was absolute destiny! He explains: “Two years ago at the Dubai World Short Course, Chad races in the first race of the meet, a four hundred medley, he finishes fifth. Three days later he […]
Gary Player, for me represents energy, positivity, tenacity, endurance and understandably so, confidence. Some of the values that drive him seems to be discipline, hard work, love, a desire to improve in every respect and a strong faith in God. A senior leader in a business shared an interesting story with me. While on holiday […]
Great Teacher x Great Message x Great Example = Great Leader. In other words if someone is a great teacher of a great message and also lives by what he teaches (exemplifies the message) he will be a great leader. To make this formula more relevant, a CEO has to ‘teach’ the organization’s vision, mission, […]
