Make Your End of Year Conference Count. Here’s How?
It’s conference season in South Africa. End of year gatherings to close off 2018, and talk about how you’re going to make 2019 your best year ever? Whether it’s the entire business or a small team, these meetings are critical. If you’re going...
The Future Is There, Looking Back At Us
When I think about people’s response to future thinking, I often divide the world into 3 kinds of people: Wing It People – These are people who wake up every morning and take it as it comes. They make do with what they’re presented, and do what they...
If Future Thinking is so important why aren’t we teaching it?
It was Ricardo Semler who once said something like, “Every company should hire someone who’s job it is to look out the window.” I’ve always thought that would be nice work if you can get it 🙂 Business needs people who are bringing the outside...
Grit. Today’s Current New Next Big Thing in People Performance
You may have picked up a touch of cynicism in my title? Not because I think the concept of Grit deserves it, only because I often smile when the people performance consulting world finds a new current next big thing. We’ve had excellence, diversity, innovation,...
Rushing Around on a Planet in a Universe that isn’t Going Anywhere
My colleague Catri sent this to me (the video embedded below) the other night. My head became overwhelmed while watching it. In the most wonderful way. It felt a lot like a legion of thoughts that wander around my head without a home, all jumped up at the same time...
