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Mountain Symbolism in African Leadership

“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 […]

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The two hungers of the bushmen

“The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two “hungers”. There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning… There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply […]

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How to take charge of the story?

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 […]