Colin's Leadership Blog http://www.ltl.co.za daily 1 2008-08-08T13:41:25Z Anything you can do I can do better! http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-08-16.6598290829 That song, sung by Doris Day and Robert Goulet in the show "Annie Get Your Gun", was one I knew in that era but we males never took it seriously! Women couldn’t challenge men at anything! Such a thought was absurd. No publisher Mike 2010-08-16T12:32:55Z Blog Entry A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink: http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-07-28.6528867747 Just as we were getting used to the information age, Daniel Pink tells us that it is ending. With it goes our focus on charts, statistics, and linear thinking. Traditional "left-brain" activities like logic, analysis, and repetitive production are being turned over to robots, computers, and offshore labor. The valued skills of 21st century will be those of the right brain: empathy, design, synthesis, and contextual thinking. Author and lecturer Daniel Pink tells you: How abundance, Asia, and automation are changing the world; Why "routine" is the scariest word in the English language; How old line companies like GM and Proctor & Gamble are responding; What six abilities matter most in the emerging age. No publisher Mike 2010-07-28T08:32:00Z Blog Entry The 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-07-27.9651004899 The 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is now a proud part of South Africa’s sporting and, much more important, a proud part of its national history. It was an extraordinary experience of the power of human energy to create magic for millions of people inside South Africa, and for hundreds of millions around the globe. No publisher Mike 2010-07-27T15:34:53Z Blog Entry BP’s safety record is a shocker http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-06-21.4213962299 BP used to stand for British Petroleum. Then it became “Beyond Petroleum”, now a US Senator has renamed it “Beyond Patience”. It seems more appropriate to stand for “Bugger Principles”. No publisher Mike 2010-06-21T13:10:48Z Blog Entry “Carpe Diem” – seize the day http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-04-12.7900296433 “Carpe Diem” – seize the day – was the inspirational challenge of that wonderful film “Dead Poet’s Society”, an all-time favourite of mine. No publisher Mike 2010-04-12T10:09:47Z Blog Entry When work becomes criminal http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-04-07.7220830081 “When work becomes criminal” was the headline Mark Borchers and Megan Euston-Brown chose to highlight the human cost of work. No publisher Mike 2010-04-07T12:27:19Z Blog Entry Principal at the coal face http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-03-03.5739941767 My conversation with Sholto Bowen, Principal of Huntingtower Co-Educational Day and Boarding School in Australia No publisher Mike 2010-03-03T11:52:06Z Blog Entry What is education? What does a Matriculant need? http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-03-02.9820691149 I had the privilege of an afternoon with the staff of one of Cape Town’s leading boys schools as they were preparing for their annual strategy day. “What does a boy need most?” I found myself wandering. “What will equip him best to make it in the world he is about to enter?” No publisher Mike 2010-07-16T09:02:09Z Blog Entry The toxicity of corporate life http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-02-25.4510051418 I had such an interesting week: No publisher Mike 2010-02-25T12:41:25Z Blog Entry “There’s a hole in my sidewalk” http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-02-18.1598053660 An autobiography in five short chapters No publisher Mike 2010-02-18T14:48:40Z Blog Entry Slowing down can help leaders find new paths http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-02-15.5394688404 An excellent article by Elaine Rumboll of the UCT Graduate School of Business caught my eye and encouraged me to slow down, read it carefully and think! The whole article appears below in case you want to slow down, read it carefully and think! No publisher Mike 2010-02-15T07:59:49Z Blog Entry Employee Wellness http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-02-11.0107338145 An article in the Wits Business Journal caught my attention. It was entitled “How employee health works for you”. No publisher Mike 2010-02-11T08:33:03Z Blog Entry In Vivo Genius – The Genius of Nature http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-02-03.6298738150 I have read and re-read, and made others listen, to what Janine Benyus writes on pages 6 and 7 of her book ‘BIOMIMICRY’ and I don’t feel like a prophet of doom when I read it. I am fascinated, excited and hopeful. See what it does to you! No publisher Mike 2010-02-03T07:26:42Z Blog Entry Learning from Nature http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-02-01.9954573623 One of the books I recently re-read is BIOMIMICRY by Janine Benyus. It affected me profoundly and since I cannot send copies out, I plan to blog extracts in the hope that you will find it as profound as I did. No publisher Mike 2010-02-01T13:54:14Z Blog Entry Learners as Customers http://www.ltl.co.za/colin-hall-blog/blogentry.2010-01-28.9052070431 Like many South Africans I find myself preoccupied by concern about our dismal and deteriorating Matriculation results! No publisher Mike 2010-01-28T12:51:34Z Blog Entry