on life and leadership
A gesture just to say, “thank you” to me. The last few weeks I’ve been saying, “thank you” to many people for giving of their gifts and time to me and things I’m involved in. So when people say to me, “You’re such a Blessing!”… It’s kinda tired but this time it wasn’t just the …
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I might be so bad with blind spots that my blind spots have their own blind spots. Whether we admit it, we all have blind spots. Some are character flaws. Others are a product of our circumstance and focus. Focus intentionally and unintentionally creates blind spots. As we chase dreams and the mission, we have …
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I’ve said it before, the truth is a beautiful thing. Nothing taints truth like delivering it with malice and egotistical motives. In both life and leadership we tend to place a high value on it, if it is on our side. I don’t know anyone who loves being ‘wrong’.
Going through some notes I made after a few team meetings a few years ago. I now understand something that puzzled me. On that team I had people with the skills needed. They were sold out to the mission. There were just two people whose potential I somehow failed to extract, in the context of …
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I was at a co-working space, Daddy.O in Woodstock, Cape Town. (They’re not paying me to say this but it’s a great space to work in). To the Matty Cohen saga. So, I got a great spot / desk. Because I had challenges with my wi-fi code, I left my backpack on the desk and I …
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