Menu
The doings of power provide the raw material for many a conversation. But what is power really? And how is power constructed? Our world identifies certain individuals as having power and then proceeds to make them more powerful by talking about them in the media. Politicians, high profile business leaders, characters from the entertainment industry […]
by Karen Alsfine 23 January 2007 From RalBusiness Network http://www.realbusiness.co.za/Article.aspx?articleID=3884&typeID=2 ONCE upon a time. Happily ever after. Comedy or drama. Telling tales is far more than an activity just for respite, so it seems. Storytelling is the meaning of life, connecting the prosaic to the divine and constituting the most engaging way of communicating, says […]
Once there was and once there was not, a successful IT company based in Johannesburg. It was expanding quickly and had a very hands-on managing director who had grown the company from his bedroom at home to an operation that employed 80 specialist developers and programmers in plush offices in Rosebank. The MD led by […]
Leadership, who should be able to take an objective view of everything that is happening in an organisation, usually become increasingly removed from the inner story circles. And often when they hear the stories, they will have been sanitised and edited because thats what everyone wants leadership to know. By their absence from the day-to-day […]
The Isivivane is a knowledge creation and sharing model designed for organisations of all kinds and sizes. Isivivane can be used for a variety of applications including KM, Change Management, Conflict Management, Teambuilding, Innovation, Project Management, sustainable system design, branding & identity work. A key benefit of the game is that it creates shared understanding […]
I know exactly how I fell in love. There are some of us who are not very smart around technology. Our thinking tends to be more in the realm of ideas and random connections than remembering what F9 does. We get nervous and confused rather quickly and feel inadequate, especially when we’re around techno-wizards. After […]
Art of Deception looks at persuasion/propaganda techniques used in documentaries – covers stories like #kony The Disney Lemmings jumping over a cliff story, the climate change stories among others. Views: 1