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“What counts is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” - Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela put it well when he said that the difference we make in the...

“Your feedback is a priceless and valuable gift for us”, said a lady during a conference I attended some months ago. These words stuck in my mind. I pondered over it for a while, and it has led to the writing of this article. In this article, we will first talk about...

My mom has a favourite saying when it comes to conflict:” Do you want to be RIGHT, or do you want to live in Harmony?” She says that because she hates conflict and heated arguments. She says this because she’d rather NOT get her way than arguing with someone. On the...

Frances Haugen's revelations are shocking, yet unsurprising, at best in their level of detail. For a long time, the particular priorities and mechanisms of the Facebook corporation have been criticised. "Hate sells" is the sad but realistic conclusion. However, I...

It is usually said that the “labour market is tight”. The number of school graduates that churn out of tertiary institutions every year is over 100,000 (World Bank Report -2018), and therefore competition for jobs is keen.  Are governments creating new jobs...

We have a multitude of passionate daily predictions of our country’s bad relapse into chaos. Many of these contributions are not by petty commentators, but by citizens with years of training and dedicated contributions to society. Their threatening predictions cannot...

“An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.” -  Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience. What is a seed? "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's...

Last year I was facilitating an emotional intelligence training for some executives for two different companies. Here are the comments of two participants who occupy key positions in the first company (Company A). Executive A: “We wish to have a Managing Director and...

“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game. It is a game however which cannot be played successfully, without the knowledge of spiritual law.” This is how Florence Scovel Shinn starts her book with the same title as this article. We all...