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The first key: Knowing what you want Successful people know what they want. They know who they want to be and where they want to go. In other words, they have a very clear picture of what success means to them. Do you know what you want? This is the first step to power and […]
“NOTE: This story comes from a Zulu elder who said, ‘These ideas about the mountain are from more than 100 years ago. African leadership today—with some shining examples—has a different approach. There’s no more climbing up mountains anymore. Now it’s about ego and the accumulation of money, cars, and property to hoard. The community is […]
Traditionally a strategic plan is a document-based creation of leadership, exco and senior management that is “brought down from the mountain” to be implemented throughout the organisation, mainly by people who haven’t been consulted or engaged in the process. This ‘trickle-down’ approach often becomes a source of conflict and frustration because the only power held […]
There’s nothing quite like a crisis to focus attention and galvanize groups, organisations and even countries. Many organisations routinely use crisis as a method of focusing attention, stimulating action, accelerating the pace of change and altering trajectory and focus. Typical organisational crises include reputational crisis, financial problems, product problems and recalls, conflict, competitor action & […]
Brand Managers and Marketing Teams are expected to tell the story of the business and its brands to create and build customer interest, awareness, sales and long-term brand recognition. Marketing departments often need to liaise with advertising agencies and providers of sales data – this requires teams and brand managers to brief agencies and creatively […]
We provide leadership and Exco fireside storytelling teambuilding in a boma/fireside environment. Traditionally, it is in the boma where, it is said, the best stories were told and the biggest decisions taken. It is a powerful and memorable way of getting everyone ‘onto the same page’ using an African dilemma tale approach. Everyone participates in […]
We work with Leadership & Exco. to improve storytelling confidence, ability & delivery. We work one-on-one or with a group up to 15 participants. Group Sessions Group sessions last one day going into the evening, preferably in a venue with a fireside around which stories can be told and shared under African skies at night. […]
We’ve never had a policy manual in this company. The way we share our values is to sit around a fire in the Boma* every Thursday evening after work and share stories. It is our way of seeing where we are all at, how the week has gone and what the next week coming up […]
BY CHRIS THEMBISILE HANI 1942 – 1993 “I was born in a small rural town in the Transkei called Cofimvaba. This town is almost 200 kilometres from East London. I am the fifth child in a family of six. Only three of us are still surviving, the other three died in their infancy. My mother […]
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 […]
If you research ‘game theory’ on the web, you’ll find the main references refer to game theory in terms of mathematical models as would be used in economics, psychology, politics etc.. The main focus of this piece is upon social games that include many of the games that we play in our daily lives. The […]
Conversations that Count: In an age where digital monologues, selfies and superficial chats are the norm, the power of conversation is waning. Disconnected in our connected world, text, email and social media exchanges are hardly interactive, let alone conversational. TV, live-streamed and public-event ‘conversations’, from political debates to discussion groups, tend to be immature, combative […]
They say that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, that absolute power corrupts absolutely but no-one talks about the idea that power is addictive.