Entrepreneurial Squiggles: What are they and how do you effectively lead your team through them? — Amina Islam The havoc wreaked worldwide by the coronavirus has demonstrated our economic system’s vulnerability to destructive, even invisible, forces of nature. …

Where’s your plough? — Nozuko Nkumanda This past Friday we had a moment of truth as an organisational team whilst separated by a 9 hour time difference across a few continents. This moment of truth was a call to pause. As a strategist at heart, this excited me. One of my first conversations as…

Why your most important KPI for the year might be hours slept or days offline. — Ryan Findley By now, most people have finished their 2020 ‘strat plans’ and signed off on their KPIs for the year. …

Practices to strengthen community within your organization and drive engagement — Lyndon Rego Is your organization a community? Should it be one? I spent more than a decade working within organizations on leadership and culture. I am now working on building community in an entire city. …

3 Tips to Help You Ask The Right Questions for Your Data Projects — Muturi Njeri In December 2019 LinkedIn released their annual report of the most in-demand professional skills. To little surprise, data science-related skills dominated the list: artificial intelligence, analytical reasoning, robotics engineering, business analysis. Seven years earlier, the Harvard Business Review had declared data science the “sexiest job of the 21-st…

Empower your team to be intrapreneurs, give them room to experiment, and celebrate failures — Amina Islam In the race for relevance to future customers whose needs and desires still remain obscure, a company’s capacity to innovate is far more important than its capacity to execute. …

Gratitude is a practice that can change your life for the better — Lyndon Rego It is now 2020, a brand new year. As the year turned you probably spent some time reflecting on the year that had passed and setting intentions for the year ahead. If you are like most of us, you focused a lot more on the future and on…

How to bring lifelong learning into your leadership practice — Katleho Mohono It is without doubt that leadership in this day and age happens in the context of great complexity, rapid-change and precariousness. …

Tracing the link between organizational performance and personal development — Lyndon Rego Leadership is often celebrated as bold vision and courageous action. Yet it is also about the quiet everyday work of growing oneself and building caring relationships with colleagues. It is these subtle personal commitments of a leader that are at the root of greater success. In this article…