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  • 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

    Closing The Powder Keg

    A journey with scars, but new friendships, immense learning, more victory over self, all of which is driving greater success in alternative ventures. When you pick up one end of the stick (own choices), you also pick up the other end (not free to choose the consequences). Being proactive means you face reality, acknowledge mistakes,… 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

  • Become proficient in psychology 

    Become proficient in psychology 

    Personality disorders are increasing, their impacts in relationships, business and politics are profound.  I wish to have been more proficient in psychology earlier on.  To have had an ability to recognize personality disorders before being boxed in.  Mathematics was a compulsory school subject. I would support the same emphasis in psychology given the escalating percentages… Read more