Don’t you often find that you are asking yourself the question “I’m a qualified manager, but am I making it? Am I where an executive should be with my years of experience, should be?” It does not seem to matter how many years you have been qualified, there is always this nagging uncertainty that you […]
You’ve probably irritated by the media-attention that cryptocurrencies have been receiving over the last few months. This one has collapsed, that one is on the rise, and a new one is around the corner. But, with the recent collapse in the crypto markets and the number of frauds and hacks that have been reported, the […]
As I write I think maybe I’ve lost my mind. It seems so logical but the expectation is almost impossible. The story is about a HP Envy Laptop that I bought from Incredible Connection (Woodmead) in early December 2017. I have a Apple 128gb Air Laptop (bought from Incredible Connection 18 months ago) but it […]
Being an executive of many years standing and a CA(SA) at that, I submit that I am a fairly good judge of character. Sure, I’ve got it wrong but generally I trust my instincts and they mostly do not let me down. So here is a sorry tale of extreme executive manipulation. My client, Jackson […]
Being in an executive coach is a great honour. I deal a lot with emerging executives and it is a humbling profession as it allows me into the deeper parts of peoples fears and courage. Here is an amazing story of just that: Courage. But this story unfolds in a rather different way. It starts […]
We’ve all heard the stuff about stress and health. I for one find the whole thing more stressful than healing. The fact is I just don’t do all those right things that the stress gurus propose – it just takes too much energy and time. But here is something that is very useful and effective […]
The corporate space intrigues me. I spent many years observing its dynamics and being trained into its construct. It plays out in a surprisingly predictable way. One of the phenomenon that was particularly interesting was the way people were deliberately manoeuvred out of the way. This is called “The Ox-Bow Effect”. The thing is if […]
Talk to me about a world where employees will to be treated like customers and you would be talking about lala-land at it’s extreme. The current work environment is most cases is the exact opposite. Employees are considered a necessary evil that need to be kept to a minimum. Certainly the objective of most CEO’s […]
“If you want to jump off the porch and run with the big dogs, you better learn to move in the tall grass!” This is a fun expression that takes a poke at the rigours of climbing the corporate ladder. It pre-supposes that, if you want to step up ‘there’, you better know how to […]
A lot is being said about the implosion of the international Steinhoff empire. Is it not ironical that the country that gave birth to some of the most advanced thinking in governance, ethics and corporate conduct should be fingered in its own back yard as the perpetrators of one of the largest exposures of corporate […]