Building Change into your DNA
One of the key's to success in the 21ste century is the ability to handle change. Not just to survive it, but also to thrive on it. This often means creating change before change creates a different you. It also means managing a system (business, family, individual,...
A Case for Blogging
For leaders, the flow of information within their company ought to be a primary concern. The need for developing horizonal information flow is critical as is the avoidence of allowing islands of information to develop leading to fragmented knowledge. In virtual and...
What do CHEWING GUM and ENGINE OIL have in common?
I attended a conference this past week. I had time to observe the action around me. The conference was aimed mainly at the male audience as it was a national petroleum conference.Many of the products were being marketed in a similar manner. Given away by girls in...
Chelsea 1 Manchester United 0
Perhaps Abramovich and Glazer represent the typology of paradox that faces us in the emerging Connection Economy:
Management motivated by Passion for People and Product will create in their Companies a sense of stability, peace, excitement, ownership and hope amongst its workforce.
Management motivated purely by Passion for Profit will create in their Companies a sense of instability, anxiety, depression and hopelessness amongst its workforce.
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Ignoring a bad template
A criticism levelled at companies, often by their own people, is that value statements, visions, and the like, sound like every other company on the block. That nothing really differentiates them. It's a fair criticism on one hand, and maybe not so fair on the other....
Rebellious Revolutionary Leadership
Recently in New Zealand "The Rebel Billionaire" - the Richard Branson "Apprentice" style show - has been broadcast. I have been glued to my TV screen each week, anticipating what crazy twist will be revealed. And while I won't deny that it has all the hallmarks of...
remember ME
This is not an article about making a difference in the world. It's not about significance. It's not about leaving your legacy. It's far more important than that. It's about winning the attention of today's young set (15-35) by giving them a compelling reason to take...
Learning a New Dance
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Aprois moi, le deluge
Louis XV was king of France just before the French Revolution. He reigned from 1715 (when he was only five years old) to 1774 (the Revolution fomented throughout the 1780s, eventually erupting in unrest on the streets in 1789). Wikipedia records that Louis XV is the...
Connecting with your Bright Young customers
We live in a world where the individual has more power than ever before. The traditional super-power is not in control anymore. The power has shifted to an unmanageable network of individuals and the ones that can ride this rollercoaster-network are the powerful ones....
From Rush Hour with Love
I've just spent a week away from home on business - long days, short nights, little shut-eye and maximum productivity. All good, except phone calls to my kids have degenerated to "Hi dad, bye dad". So I plan to take an afternoon off to spend with them. I mention that...
Amazing opportunity at Tshwane University of Technology
Hi team, I had a great exploratory conversation with Hannelie Minnaar, the Assistant Registrar at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) this morning. I invited her to interact with us on this opportunity via our blogger so that these ideas can get a life of their...
Do we preach "Virtual Officing" but abstain from the practice?
There has recently been so much blogging about 'virtual officing' and about our connectedness that I just felt compelled to write this. Imagine my surprise. Driving down William Nicol on Sunday on my way back from church, I see these reappearing 'adobt-a-pole-posters'...
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Go Kulula, go!
It's funny how something that goes wrong, actually gives a company an opportunity to score massive brownie points - depending on how they handle it. I had such an experience with Kulula and afterwards went to their website and posted a comment. This is my comment to...
ACSA gets up to speed (a bit)
The Airports Company of South Africa is really working hard to upgrade facilities to make SA's airports worldclass. On the whole, they're doing a great job. OK, so the lifts in the Joburg domestic terminal are tragic, but that's a small gripe in such a great facility....
1st world vs 3rd world – which is which?
This morning I took my baby to Ampath to get blood samples for the Netherland-lab. We also had an option to take him to the Pretoria Academic Hospital tomorrow for the same sample. Obviously we rather decided to go for the Ampath-option. You know - first world,...
Blogging…who cares?
In an information-overloaded society who cares who blogs and why? Note that is a question and not a statement. But could it be that when one has 109 books on the 'waiting to be read' shelf, a pile of journals, magazines and clippings a couple of zillion meters high...
The Interactive Workplace
This was sent to me by email. I am trying to track down the URL to reference it properly, but for now, enjoy. EDS' Jeff Wacker: Interactive workplace scary -- in a good way POSTED:03 May 2005, SOURCE: Edmonton Journal Gamers could rule the world when the Next Big...
Ignore blogs at your brand’s peril
Since Le Monde (see it here), Fortune and BusinessWeek ran cover stories on Blogs and business (read BusinessWeek's here), it seems that a lot of column inches have been expended on debating whether blogging is just a fad or the "next big thing". I think its the...