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 […]
Is there place for spirituality in leadership, especially in the business environment, the workplace? In fact, isn’t it already happening, with many or most being unaware? But first, what is spirituality? Pastor Thamo Naidoo was our guest and answered this way: “Its learning how to live our lives according to divine design; being connected to […]
Managers are on a treadmill – a daily grind towards execution excellence, towards congruence – with the rising expectations of all Stakeholders. Driven by competition, internal and external, we get up earlier and work later; desperately seek skills and competencies; design systems and structures; invest in technology; cast our nets into risky foreign markets; build hierarchies […]
One of the complaints we come across regularly is the challenge of finding sufficient energy. Pressures on most of us are building up all the time rather than diminishing. Where do we get the necessary energy from? There may be many reasons that people lack energy. This article is mainly about the mental energy that […]
Energy! Energy! Energy! This has to be the most effective way of describing Stephen Saad from Aspen! He only sleeps 4 hours a night, but one gets the impression he can do with even less of this ‘burden’. After my interview with him it once again dawned on me how important it is to enjoy […]
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 […]
