12/2/20 12/2/20

What Happens "now now"

When confronted with the pandemic of 2020 there were myriads of responses from various people and I thought I would classify them into the words of my upbringing and my adopted country.

5/18/20 5/18/20

Right Place - Right Time

And so being in the right place at the right time is now in whatever business you're in. It is about looking at that business in a lot of detail, without getting caught in the detail.

5/7/20 5/7/20

Soaking up the rain

And so just like the plants in the garden that are soaking up the physical rain, I am soaking up the metaphysical rain

11/4/19 11/4/19

What is a Mentor - Do you need one (many) ?

The idea of a long term mentor is one who provides a framework for the mentee to be able to grow.

10/17/19 10/17/19

Profiling tools : Divine or Devil ?

What are profiling and assessment tools, and what is their role in your organization ?

9/9/19 9/9/19

Employee experience or employee engagement – the future ?

Employee engagement extends to understanding the role of the employer in the life of the employee, hence the future of the employee experience.

4/3/19 4/3/19

Are values aspirational ?

Apart of the global research into culture, I interviewed the HR manager of a food manufacturing and distribution company. As part of the discussion we looked at values. We addressed the importance of values.

3/18/19 3/18/19

Just because you can

Today we use the term – paying it forward.How much do you do for others just because you can ?

3/13/19 3/13/19

Does culture have a $ value ?

Can we place a value on that culture or is culture a soft “thing” that cant be measured ?

3/8/19 3/8/19

What is a Mentor ? Do you need one ?

I have always been fiercely independent. I have never been able to follow a particular mentor to the exclusion of all others. However, over many years in business I have had countless influencers and mentors.

3/6/19 3/6/19

Crowd-sourcing self esteem

3/4/19 3/4/19

Is a Tie a useful piece of clothing?

For many years I have advocated the removal of the tie as a piece of clothing.

3/1/19 3/1/19

What is the truth?

How do these to ideas come together in 2019 and beyond. We live in an era of fake news and post-truth. And so what then constitutes perfect information ? How does the truth then relate to this ?

2/20/19 2/20/19

A tale of two cultures

Interviewing a manger of an engineering and construction business who had recently changed employer, I was fascinated by the completely different cultures of the two organizations.