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David Petraeus - moving from "doing" to "thinking"
In a recent issue of Time magazine, there is an interesting article about David Petraeus, the commander of the U.S. Army.
Leadership Lessons
"When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in."
Matric results - Sinking deeper into mediocrity
Address by Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State
RUACH – in Hebrew meaning ‘wind’ or ‘spirit’
Some thoughts on the leadership role of Boards of Directors.
What is Synergy?
Synergy is what happens when two people smile at each other. Synergy is what happened on bare, ice-scarred rock-face in the wake of the ice-age glaciers, when cosmic energies manifested as matter, ...
Matric results 2010
An excellent editorial in a recent Financial Mail has yet another insight into the "rigging" of the 2010 Matric results...adjusting the marks secretly was one...the other was adjusting the numbers ...
Life's a chess game
LIFE is akin to at least a three dimensional chess game in complexity. How exciting! What a challenge! So how do we play, productively, safely and joyfully? How do we survive? How do we cope? How d...
Which kind of manager do you want to be?
Too many managers focus on fixing people’s weaknesses -- or worse, they simply ignore employees altogether. This doesn’t boost performance.
High Energy Groups vs Low Energy Groups
In our search to learn all we could about human energy and its impact upon human outcomes, especially in teams, groups and organisations, I came across these two word pictures:
