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  • The Powder Keg closing. Barrel 2.

    The Powder Keg closing. Barrel 2.

    Background to give context to perspectives that connect to leadership conversations. Keeping it down the middle. If you want loyalty, get a dog. A routine visit to the South African Police Services (SAPS) to close The Powder Keg’s (TPK) trading license in firearms turned out not to be so routine. A discovery of an alleged fraud… Read more

  • Data driven. An objective assessment.

    Data driven. An objective assessment.

    Steven Covey references the four dimensions of our nature – physical, spiritual, mental and social (emotional), that are fundamental to preserving and enhancing ourselves. These must be balanced, to neglect any one area negatively impacts the rest. I avoid advice from those who do not display the character and mentality that I seek in these… Read more

  • Closing The Powder Keg (TPK)

    Closing The Powder Keg (TPK)

    (comment added 23/7/2026) A routine visit to SAPS two weeks ago to terminate the firearms trading license turned out to be not so routine. Material information came to light about the potential dealing in firearms by employees for their personal account using the firearms trading license of TPK, and a material omission of relevant data… Read more

  • Reflection in my approach.

    Reflection in my approach.

    I have written previously that my consulting in business and mentoring in leadership was founded on a forthright and honest approach. I tell people that if I told them what they wanted to hear then I was only helping myself and not them. Calling a spade a spade, with love. This is a very lonely… Read more

  • Value in Empowerment

    Value in Empowerment

    In recent months my focus was in supporting 2 multinationals in roles they empowered me in, or excluded me from. My involvement in each materially different, driven not necessarily by different needs, but by differences in leadership culture. These experiences are sources of learning, what I try to bring to aspiring new leaders. The validation… Read more

  • Unpack and forget!

    Unpack and forget!

    FORGIVING IS NOT ENOUGH.          Most of my life I accepted the principle of forgiveness.  My Christian upbringing. But I struggled to forget. I would proudly talk about forgiving but never forgetting. I had to learn that forgiveness was not because the other party deserved it, but because I deserved the peace. I struggled with the biblical… Read more