Change is inherently contrary. To change your world, the world, you must be comfortable going against the culture in which you or your cause exists. Why must you pay attention to the culture? The Answer is rather simple. Because culture is what sustains anything. Paying homage to culture is about understanding its impact and how …
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Not An Advocate For Change?
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must …
Future Vault
The future is often viewed as something distant. Involving a journey of some sort. It is perceived as ‘that place’ we will get to and get to where certain things happen. Some of the “certain things” said to be for the future are seen a lofty. We dismiss them as unattainable in the now because …
Management, the Demise of Leadership [An Excerpt]
One critical mistake that most organisations make is that their leaders usually just deteriorate into managers. This means that leaders get more concerned about maintaining the status quo and, as long as nothing much is changing in the organisation, they behave like the proverbial ostrich and prefer to believe that the situation with the market …
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Status Quo Leadership
‘Status quo leadership’ is about carefully keeping everything neat and as it is. It is about doing anything not to upset the way things are and nothing to change them. A leader who does this is practicing, for lack of a better term, ‘status quo leadership’. “Lack of a better term” because it is not leadership. The …