Leadership
clarity about who the organisation is….
The leaders role is not to make sure that people know exactly what to do and when to do it. Continue reading
Who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome
Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Continue reading
How The CIA Keeps Employees Happy
The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time – Stop living your life in the gray zone
Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?
It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time. Continue reading
To the woman warrior I did not know
A person is a person through other persons
“Ubuntu […] speaks of the very essence of being human. Continue reading
Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
Sometimes, it is our task to find out how much music we can make with what we have left
Yitzhak Perlman, the great violinist, was playing in New York. Yitzhak Perlman was crippled by polio as a young child, so the bottom part of his body doesn’t work well and he wears these very prominent leg braces and comes on in crutches, in a very painful, slow way, hauling himself across the stage. Then he sits down and, very carefully, unbuckles the leg braces and lays them down, puts down his crutches, and then picks up his violin. So, this night the audience had watched him slowly, painfully, walk across the stage; and he began to play. And, suddenly, there was a loud noise in the hall that signaled that one of his four strings on his violin had just snapped.
There is a place called, “beyond hope and fear”
What if, at the end of our lives, we die having watched destruction and not been able to create any good effect?
What, really, is available to us if we can’t save the world? What do we fund our work for? Where do we gain energy if we don’t believe that we’re going to be successful? How can we do our work without hope that we will succeed? Continue reading
ONE TUSK 