Search results for category: Energy Inhibitors
“Carpe Diem” – seize the day
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-04-12 12:09 PM.
“Carpe Diem” – seize the day – was the inspirational challenge of that wonderful film “Dead Poet’s Society”, an all-time favourite of mine.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-04-07 02:27 PM.
“When work becomes criminal” was the headline Mark Borchers and Megan Euston-Brown chose to highlight the human cost of work.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-02-11 10:33 AM.
An article in the Wits Business Journal caught my attention. It was entitled “How employee health works for you”.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-01-28 02:51 PM.
Like many South Africans I find myself preoccupied by concern about our dismal and deteriorating Matriculation results!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-12 10:48 AM.
We conduct an Energy Survey in organisations and every now and then one comment comes out top of the list of positive characteristics within an organisation. “In our organisation mistakes are seen as learning”. With a comment like that, it’s almost certain that organisation is thriving. Peter Bruce of Business Day wrote forcefully about the mistakes politicians and statesmen have made, but how seldom they are admitted as mistakes and genuinely used as learning.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-12 10:35 AM.
I was the guest speaker at an offsite strategy session of a large company. The venue was 1½ hours drive from Johannesburg, the last half hour of which was on a dusty rural road. Since we were all due at the same starting time, we convoyed one behind the other for a dusty and dirty trip. 47 delegates arrived in 42 cars! We were told that the event was costing between R400,000 and R500,000 so where were the cost savings?!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-03 09:40 AM.
Peter Bruce wrote the following editorial:
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-07-10 11:03 AM.
Today I have been watching dragonflies hovering over a pool. Two days ago I watched thirty teachers walking back into a conference room. What an energy contrast!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-07-01 12:53 PM.
Boundaries, walls, fences, the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the wall Israel is building and now also the fencing off of Bangladesh from India. What dangerous and expensive futility!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-01-27 01:34 PM.
Robin Sharma, the author of ‘The monk who sold his Ferrari’, convinced me that the digital revolution was doing harm to human relationships and I quoted his wisdom regularly:
“As fast as we are connecting digitally, so fast are we drifting apart emotionally”.
