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  • A spade is a spade. A heart is a heart.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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

  • Dual edged sword.

    Dual edged sword.

    Sharpen your sword.  The best investment that we can ever make is the investment in ourselves. You don’t need 100 self-help books, what you need is knowledge, action, and self-discipline.    One of the dimensions of our lives that we should continually enhance is the physical dimension comprised of exercise, nutrition, and healthy sleep.  Let’s… Read more

  • Stop whining and get on with it.

    Stop whining and get on with it.

    I keep hearing how difficult it is for first time home buyers to enter the housing market.  The reason, high prices and high interest rates (4-5%).  Many had the opportunity to enter the market in 2021 / 2022 when interest rates were practically zero (first world economies).  A once in a lifetime gift horse for… Read more