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Without authority its difficult to fulfil responsibilities
Ever so often, we discover that people are entrusted with a responsibility but lack the authority to get things done. On the other hand,...
Sep 20, 20232 min read
Faking sincerity has become the key to success.
" Sincerity is the key to success, if you can fake that, you've got it made. " An increasing number of people have learnt the art of...
Jul 17, 20232 min read
Use annual appraisals to motivate and promote a meritocracy
What is the difference between men and boys? The cost of their toys. If one is observant and sensitive, learning can come from...
Jun 30, 20233 min read
Annual appraisals can cause lots of demotivation
The measure of good management is to constantly increase productivity and quality whilst reducing the amount of discord and unhappiness...
Jun 26, 20232 min read
What is not audited, is not done.
Long running successful organisations and even families that become great are, to put it simply 'well organised'. One of the most...
Jun 17, 20231 min read
To be Somebody and yet a Nobody
A sure sign of megalomania and approaching insanity is to believe that one's work is so important that the world will stop functioning...
Apr 29, 20232 min read
Lessons from making 'Stone Soup'
The rains were late and the land was parched. The people in the village were struggling to make ends meet. Afraid that their families...
Apr 24, 20233 min read
Naughty is good
One crucial factor that usually differentiates successful people from unsuccessful people is their energy levels. Low energy is a trait...
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Convert vandals and trouble makers into stars
Engaging with troublesome youth - The Vin Diesel example Mark Sinclair (b 1967) popularly known as Vin Diesel, is an American producer,...
Apr 3, 20231 min read
Reading enhances leadership
Leadership is forged by learning, practice and opportunity. Reading plays a great role in learning. It widens and deepens perspective...
Mar 6, 20232 min read
Days eat up our life
Our individual and collective existence can be broken into two parts, the material world and the spiritual world. The material world is...
Mar 5, 20232 min read
Friendship, not love is the magic ingredient.
Thanks to misplaced notions of romance spread by poets, authors, television and movies, many a potentially great bond between a man and a...
Dec 25, 20222 min read
We create our own 'realities'.
During the war in 1948, American ambassador to the U.N. Warren Austin called upon the Arabs and Jews to settle their differences 'like...
Oct 22, 20224 min read
Avoid Toxicity to be Peaceful and Happy
To protect our bodies we do not eat or drink toxic things, we also do not permit poisonous creatures and things to come near our body....
Sep 22, 20223 min read
We can daily meet the Divine
If we examine our modern and urban lives, we discover that we are surrounded by artificiality. Almost everything we use, consume or...
Aug 1, 20222 min read
Is the 'problem', my problem?
"I have a problem", that is how many people often approach colleagues and bosses. We humans are fascinated by the problems of others...
Jul 25, 20223 min read
Why does familiarity usually lead to contempt?
When we get together with friends and family we let down the masks we wear and drop the persona we adopt in front of the world, and...
Mar 6, 20222 min read
Fundamental questions to answer to achieve goals.
We humans are constantly chasing something or the other, endeavouring to achieve goals. It is just our nature. Yet many, fail most of the...
Feb 27, 20222 min read
The difference between Success and Happiness
It is easy to get confused between success and happiness, often mistaking them be similar. 'Success' is getting what we want. 'Happiness'...
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Death by Social Media?
Probably the most valuable thing we possess in equal measure is the time each one of us is given, 24 hours, that is 86,400 seconds a...
Dec 30, 20213 min read
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