Gary Player believes, “the way you judge great men in the world are people that have suffered and have love, like Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa.” As I mentioned in last week’s article, having love in one’s heart with no energy to share it can be counterproductive and quite possibly depressing. Player works […]
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, […]
The Bible gives us an excellent definition of agape love; a beautiful definition for leadership, too. In trying to understand leadership and develop my own framework I’ve come to realize that leadership is a choice. As leaders we choose how we want to behave. We choose to let our ego’s rule our arrogance or we […]
During my interview with Victor Matfield he took a piece of paper from his pocket. The information on the page was entitled ‘self knowledge’ with headings: strengths, weaknesses, changes and principles and values. Under each of these headings were written 4-5 points. He wrote this page in 2004 after his first and not so successful […]
He was raised on a small island called the Isle of Man, between England and Ireland, 21 miles long and 12 miles wide with a population of about 50 000 people. It was a simple life where everybody knew one other. Kneale was however keen to ‘get out’ into the big world, which is what he […]
Let me kick off with the last piece of advice from Covey on the show: “I just really think there is such tremendous, almost unbelievable potential here. If I were to give a person advice I would say realize you have four parts to your nature – for your body, assume you have had a […]
I met the camera team an hour or two before the interview with Dr Covey at a Sandton hotel. He was still presenting to a thousand business executives. We went up to his room and then the challenge started of trying to fit all the necessary equipment into his room. It really wasn’t a large […]
