Young and Exceptional
Image Designed by rawpixel.com / Freepik Definitions: MOI – Memorandum of IncorporationCIPC – Companies and Intellectual Property CommissionTarget Company – BrooklynCompany 2 – DurbanCompany 3 – PretoriaCompany 4 – MombasaCompany 5 – LusakaRing fence – a virtual barrier that segregates a portion of an individual’s or company’s financial assets from the rest Durban owns 60% […]
You want to have a leader who is willing to create the space for other talented people to also be seen. Phuti Mahanyele-Dabengwa You can also listen to this post by clicking play: YandX – Young and Exceptional · Leadership And Building Significance In Others And Yourself With Phuti Mahanyele – Dabengwa The current proposition […]
People value someone who is proactive, constantly engaging, thinking differently and coming up with new ideas. James Formby You can also listen to this post by clicking play: Mangaliso Mithi · Leadership And Rising Through The Ranks Of Rand Merchant Bank The current proposition is that leadership is the absence of self-interest, and these two; […]
You can also listen to this post by clicking play: Let’s start from something fundamental. Stop thinking about leadership as a position but rather as a skill, a skill anyone can learn. People are not born with it, they learn it over time. Truth is, we’ve all displayed leadership more times than we can think, […]
Q: As a leader, how do you handle situations where an employee is being or becoming too familiar? Asked by Cindy A: You need to re-align the employee’s interest to why they are doing the job. In order to do this, you need to understand and probe the employee to find out what’s driving them […]
Q: If leadership is sacrifice of self-interest, why then do companies have CEOs – that one person that’s tasked to lead the team? Asked by anonymous A: You need to remember that the rest of the executive team are leaders too. Leadership is a skill and the CFO, CMO, CHRO, CTO, etc have all demonstrated […]
Q: As a leader, how do you learn not to compromise at such a level. To please shareholders and at the same time be considerate of people’s lives? Asked by Emmanuel A: The job is already half done because a shareholder is looking to earn a return, either through a dividend or capital growth so […]
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs You can also listen to this post by clicking play: When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, the Think Different campaign was launched the year after and secured Apple’s trajectory to global domination and […]
You can also listen to this post by clicking play: To understand leadership, its power and appreciate its value, we also need to understand self-interest and what it means. These two concepts are the different sides of the same coin. The yin and yang. Good cannot exist without bad. In the same vein, the beauty […]
If you’re going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. Jeff Bezos You can also listen to this post by clicking play: At one point in time, in 1995, Amazon only sold books. They then started something called ‘customer reviews’ that was unheard of at that time. Customers […]