http://www.ltl.co.za daily 1 2011-01-21T05:22:02Z http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/dung-beetle-dance You can pooh-pooh it all you like, but this dance even has the US Air Force interested. The dancer is a dung beetle. Its stage? A ball of poo. And the reason for the US military’s interest is this insect’s uncanny ability to find direction. No publisher mike Finding Balance 2012-02-27T14:30:01Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/hating-what-you-do Disenchantment with work is growing. What can be done about it? No publisher mike 2012-01-11T13:16:25Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/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. No publisher mike Leaders and Leadership 2011-08-24T10:14:54Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/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." No publisher mike Human and Team Dynamics 2011-08-10T09:47:03Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/matric-results-sinking-deeper-into-mediocrity Address by Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State No publisher mike Leaders and Leadership 2012-02-29T13:49:37Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/ruach-2013-in-hebrew-meaning-2018wind2019-or-2018spirit2019 Some thoughts on the leadership role of Boards of Directors. No publisher mike Leaders and Leadership 2011-02-22T09:28:21Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/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, giving birth to primitive life forms - when fungi and algae discovered symbiosis and created lichen. No publisher mike Finding Balance 2011-02-14T14:44:07Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/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 of candidates! If you make sure that only those candidates who have a chance of passing, actually write the exams, your results look that much better. No publisher mike Energy Inhibitors 2011-01-25T09:23:29Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/lifes-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 do we prosper?.... No publisher mike The Power of Human Energy 2011-01-20T10:09:00Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/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. No publisher hannes 2011-01-14T08:01:57Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/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: No publisher hannes The Power of Human Energy 2011-01-14T08:03:49Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/lessons-humanity-can-learn-from-the-ant I was reading a little about ants, and I learned a lot about nature – possibly even Human nature! No publisher hannes Finding Balance 2011-01-14T07:03:19Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/complexities-of-life Chess is apparently the most complicated game humans play. Despite the fact that there are only 32 pieces in 6 shapes, 64 squares, two colours and a board that is two dimensional, there are more possible variations in the play than there are atoms on the planet! Imagine the exponential affect of increasing the size of the board by just one more row of squares. No publisher hannes The Power of Human Energy 2011-01-14T11:54:41Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/lessons-from-nature Nature, left to its own devices by humans, is the most remarkable self-regulating system. What is amazing is how carefully and judiciously nature uses power and how exquisitely it maintains the balance of power between those that are scarce and more powerful, and those that are abundant but occupy a lower rank in the power hierarchy. Therein lies a lesson for humans and especially for those who occupy positions at the top of human hierarchies – governments, corporations, schools and even families. But the really exciting lessons that nature teaches are about maximising energy - finding synergy, exponential energy – enhancing the life experience for all who are part of the system. No publisher hannes Finding Balance 2011-01-13T12:16:29Z Page http://www.ltl.co.za/colins-leadership-blog/behaviour-change Everybody seems, in one way or another, to be wanting to change behaviour – their own or someone else’s! No publisher hannes The Power of Human Energy 2011-01-14T07:59:44Z Page