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Are you a critical thinker?

In a world with a constant and increasing stream of information and messages of all kinds demanding your attention, critical thinking is of the utmost importance. In between everything that gets your attention, there is an increasing chance that it is unsubstantiated...

Authentic leadership and change

Over the years, different theories of leadership were prominent at different times.  One can think of the trait, behavioural, contingency, path-goal, transactional, transformational and servant leadership approaches. In present times, as we globally face the...

Pause, rethink and unlearn

As shared in a Knowledge@Wharton article, a few years ago an internationally recognised thought leader in management and workplace dynamics proposed the following to a group of Fortune 500 CEOs: ‘We already have good evidence that as long as people are in the office...

Trend-awareness, Covid 19 and beyond

Today, much more so than in the past, no business can afford to narrowly focus only on its day-to-day operations, competitors and more immediate stakeholders. It is not only the leadership of multinational corporations who need to invest time and effort to understand...

Habits of hope

If we lose hope we lose everything. Hope, in this sense, is the fire in your heart that drives you to go forward, conscious that life is precious and worth fighting for. To keep this fire burning can at times be hard. We do well if we cultivate the habits that keep us...

Effective communication

In our fast-paced high-tech world it is easy to overestimate the quick-fix tools we use to solve problems or reach our goals. We typically underestimate the importance of awareness and practice of necessary skills and processes for effective communication. The last...