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Is the 1st step bumpier?

Many quote that the first step is always the hardest, hence the saying “to start is to have completed half”. In my experience, the thing that holds us back is all in our mind, causing us to procrastinate. We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. We need to overcome the fundamental instinct to… Read more
Ripples of communism in capitalism.

Modern day capitalism is infected with greed, and in parts become dysfunctional; but that does not mean that we throw the baby out with the bath water. We need to reset, not to zero, but keep what is right in capitalism, and start from there. Democracy is not much different in the poison of extremism. … Read more
A spade is a spade. A heart is a heart.

I am asked if I would again pursue a role in corporate. The only way that I know how to answer is by calling a spade a spade, but with heart. Courageous leaders are forthright, but with consideration not to hurt. Maybe, but in a niche and with conditions. The role that I would favour… Read more
Pick up the phone.

LinkedIn is intended to be a professional and business forum. I think so anyway, yet the content and comments on LinkedIn too often mirror other social media platforms, shallow and with little substance. Numerous managers publicise their teams’ so-called successes (not substance) in LinkedIn posts or congratulate their teams in the comments section. If these… Read more
Shine with age. Like a good red wine.

Testosterone or oestrogen impacts, or maybe wisdom, our biases change as we age. We start off like a bull in a china shop, competing to gain our independence physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. As we progress down the Maturity Continuum, we learn that life is by nature, highly interdependent. We get to understand the value… Read more
Balance, life’s leveller.

No matter what lens we look through, no matter what our past conditioning, no one can deny the value of BALANCE in all dimensions of our lives. The word “too” is the enemy of BALANCE. The biggest struggles in my life are defined by the word “too, mostly too much”; getting my balance in sink… Read more