Introduction: The Baobab tree offers some important corporate lessons, in the vast, and often turbulent landscape of corporate environments. Executives find themselves grappling with challenges that parallel the mystique of the Baobab tree. Much like the Baobab’s unique adaptation to arid climates, corporate leaders must navigate through the dry spells of toxic workplace dynamics. This […]
I often read with amusement the ideas of the proponents of work-life balance (WLB). My view is quite simple – if you want to build your career, chuck out WLB. Building a career isa 101% commitment! Anything else will leave you at the back of the queue! This might sound a bit harsh, but unless […]
This might just be your story . . . . . . Read on! In my business I have the privilege of coaching quite a number of young Chartered Accountants. Part of my program is to get my clients to see their own unique strengths. I then coach them on how to take these strengths […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whether we like it or not the general consensus is that the economic outlook for the rest of 2017 is looking bleak. And it seems that 2018 is not going to look any better. You can be sure that your staff are feeling edgy – retrenchments is the big buzz word at the moment and every Board is […]
A lot is being said about Millennials, some good and some not so good. Millennials are accused of being lazy, demanding and impatient. Lying around, they expect things to happen in a very different way to previous generation-types. And dramatically so! In the not too distant future it is expected that 50% of the entire […]
As CAs(SA), we are expected to be precise and accurate. Part of our brand is about attention to detail and being fastidious about accuracy – it’s expected. Numbers tell a very important story and a lot of reliance is placed on them when making decisions. They need to be right! Part of this is reflected in the way you show up. Time […]