INSIGHTS
Self-govern
How many people do you know that are mature enough to self-govern and self-manage? Police themselves, traffic police themselves, discard of their litter in a responsible way, smoke only in designated areas, do everything with a win ǀ win approach, pay taxes over...
You can lead a horse to water
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Now what do you do if you can see that the horse really, desperately, urgently and critically needs to drink. What then? Do you just give up and say "you can lead a horse to water ......." The times when we...
When will it ever stop and when did it really start?
People fight. It's one of the things we do. Family fights, legal battles, fights against fights, wars, fights for dominance and even inner conflicts. We justify our fights. They did, she did, he did, even the inner child-based conflicts are due to some adult. And...
The Voice of Reason
When everyone around you seems to going mad, will you be the voice of reason? When you are going mad will someone be your voice of reason? Before I continue please note - this blog post is not titled "The Voice of The Reasons". There are plenty of those I know. ...
Can’t wait …..
Can't wait. Living in the Western Cape we are hearing these two words followed mainly by the following words - .... for the rains to come. This makes perfect sense considering the severe drought we find ourselves in. We need the rain but according to our past...
Love me for a reason ….
"Love me for a reason ..." It's a line from a song. As it so often happens we hear songs while traveling in our cars and this was such a case. "Love me for a reason, and let the reason be love." I didn't choose the song, I chose to be driving at the time, to have...
Leaders that discredit leadership
As I fly back to the Cape my thoughts turn to leadership and to some of the goings on in the Southern tip of our continent at present. When people talk about leadership, I have noticed a tendency toward "half-fullness." The word tends to get people to lean toward the...
My activity and me
I love asking people how they are as I generally do care, and I am fascinated by the answers I receive. Some of my least favourite to hear: Hectic. Busy. It does not help to complain. I recently ran a session where we spent time exploring the difference between...
Dust storms and dust settling
As dust settles we begin to see things clearly again. Clarity can be impaired by a wide variety of factors from a lack of light to presence of dust or fog in the air. Success in life, business, relationships, in fact in all the roles we play, depends on clarity in...
Making sense of it all
There is a lot happening. Not only in my personal life with a change in what we call home, in our business with new product offerings gaining traction, in our clients where everything that does happen in business is happening, in South African business where an...
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