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One of my students shared the following quote on our WhatsApp group this week: “A truly great boss is hard to find, difficult to part with and impossible to forget.” Upon which another bright spark remarked: “I agree but you can’t forget a bad boss either. LOL!” It...

When I first embarked on the leadership journey, I had wonderful visions and great hopes flooding my mind. Visions of honour, respect, admiration and high regard among men. However, soon I realised that there is a price to be paid and that the leadership journey...

Nelson Mandela is certainly a household name for many in the world now because of what he stood for. His ideals and values are exemplary even for children yet to be born. He was a great leader and respected by many. It is said that he even sought to empower his former...

VUCA is an acronym that is now well established as a description for the business world that we currently operate in. In a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world, there is no going back to the familiar and predictable world prior to the global financial...

Employee performance is the output of the employee and it is given birth by several known and unknown factors. None of these group of factors is given due attention by organizations and supervisors of employee performance. In effect employee performance management has...

The concept of Leadership is most often looked at within the context of those within our teams or sphere of influence.  Rarely though do we reflect on the most often obscure member of the team…ourselves.  If true leadership is caught and not taught, then...

If you haven’t heard of the inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, I’d like to share it with you now: Malala grew up in northwest Pakistan, where the Taliban had often banned girls from attending school. She became a vocal supporter of female education when a Taliban...

Dr. James Dobson speaks of “Teachable moments” in parenting. Those unscheduled moments where a lesson is driven home in the life of a child or they just “get it”. And life has plenty of those. No, appointments, no warning, they just happen. I remember a time when I...

This is a story of a leader we will name Robertson who was once a foreign student in a certain country to further his education at university. As a foreign student, he knew he needed to dedicate more effort to his studies because the course was to be taught in a...

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realise your vision. – Bob Proctor If you don’t know where you’re going you might just end up somewhere else. If you are busy going...

Having been very blessed with the opportunity of over the past 30 years travelling the world and working with leaders from across the globe and from various industries, political affiliations, sport, church and NGO’s I have, what I believe, identified the most...

Have you ever woken up one morning thinking, if a statement was to be released about the summary of your life, how would it read? All of us have been called to serve our generation at any stage of life we are, and the hard truth is, we don’t have eternity to do what...