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 […]
Category: leadership
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 […]
This is an example of allegorical storytelling in business using the model of an African Dilemma Tale – In the African dilemma tale storytelling tradition, the story is left open ended and so it is up to the listeners to suggest probable outcomes are and answer ‘what happens next, where do we go to from […]
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 […]
>Regardless of who you vote for, it is interesting to look at the ANC-generated Freedom Charter, adopted in 1955. It is a beautifully crafted vision which contains a story of a desired future that one can see. (Employing words skilfully to construct a mental picture that others can ‘see’ is a key element of a […]
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 […]