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...
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...
