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To affirm is to encourage or to inspire.  It is also a firm or public statement that something is true or that you support something strongly according to the Oxford English dictionary. Should staff be affirmed often by their team leaders? How does this affect...

It was the late Peter Drucker who reportedly said that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Yet boards appear to be paying only lip service to Drucker's fundamental, according to a new survey by tax and accountancy firm Mazars, the INSEAD business school in Paris...

The concept of change invokes various emotions in people depending on how they look at it. For some, change can be exciting as it represents new opportunities whereas for others it is dreaded because it can spell new challenges. Having finally managed to read Dr...

Goal setting is not that difficult as compared to working toward that goal. There are a lot of unpredictables that come into play once you set off the journey. These blocks and detours and whatnot account for why most people do not achieve their goals. Keeping that...

In Simon Sinek’s best selling book, Start with why he shares the following story about Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the co-founders of Apple: “The personal computer revolution was beginning to brew when Wozniak built the Apple I. Just starting to gain attention, the...

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." --Henry Ford The story of a young man, Jean-Luc will be used to illustrate the powerful keys we can pick from failure and how we can turn our failure into success. Jean-Luc was an average...

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...