Category: Motivation
IS YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM MADE UP OF LIONS, LAMBS, LOBSTERS OR WOLVES?
Is your leadership team made up of lions, lambs, lobsters or wolves? Every leadership team is made up of leaders and followers. While it may be assumed that the leader is the head of the team, the only difference between leaders and followers is that leaders practice extrinsic leadership while followers exercise intrinsic leadership. Both […]
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RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE; IT IS MORE COMMON SENSE THAN COMPLEX BUSINESS JARGON!
On the 30th June 2013 the Sunday Nation Newspaper published a pull out titled, “Transformative CEOs with Golden hands”. The pullout featured 37 CEOs and the businesses they lead. The report covered 30 men and 7 women. Eight of these CEOs held doctorate (PhD) degrees while the organizations ranged from billion-dollar corporations to SMEs […]
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ALWAYS PLAN AND PREPARE
I gave a young man a task to plant a tree to which he did agree. I said dig the hole two feet deep!, two feet wide and two feet across. The man said he would. But since the tree, at the time, could fit in no more than a two inch box, he saw […]
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TWO PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY FINANCE
Inflows and outcomes The structure that regulates family expenditure is a budget. A budget is a useful tool of resource allocation but it is not the ultimate in terms of determining wealth and success. Indeed, a budget will do no more than you tell it to do. Like the “garbage in, garbage out” principle of […]
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COVID-19: SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THE CHILDREN
There are many public media discussions about global health concerns, protective measures, mortality statistics and the economic impact of the corona virus on our lives around the globe. In this context, it is assumed that children will be told what to do and they will follow instructions without question. As you may well have found […]
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY
The year 2020 will remain very special to people living in this generation. It will be remembered as the year the world economy shut down and business came to a screeching halt. Some of those businesses stood at a cross road. Others stood at a “T-Junction” while some came to a dead end. While COVID-19 […]
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ASPIRE
Aspiration is about an urging for something higher, setting yourself a noble goal and looking towards the future with a measure of courage, anticipation and striving to achieve. It is about accepting the call to serve humanity in a higher role. But why is aspiration an important employee asset? Aspiration gets you up in the […]
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ATTITUDE
In his audio book Keith Harrell talks about an attitude of gratitude. He suggests that a person who has a grateful attitude reaps more out of life than the morose complainer about life. He says being thankful is one of the greatest “uppers” and self-motivating techniques all of us can switch “on” or “off” as […]
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ATTITUDE & MOTIVATION
Scribbled on the back of the cheque I was paid on my last assignment were the words “attitude & motivation talk”. It was probably written by the accountant or paying officer. I suppose this is what accountants do to remind themselves of what all the cheques they write are for, but during that one hour […]
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