Organisations are like human beings. An organisation is created in the image of man!Organisations come to life, live, and die very much like human beings do. The average life expectancy of a multi national corporation is 40 to 50 years. The life expectancy of humans is approximately 50%...
It’s been almost 3 months now since I abandoned the comfort of a secure job and income and made this leap into becoming a full time, independent, Family Business Facilitator and Coach.The “follow your inner light” slogan came from the thought that perhaps we are best compared to a Sunflower...
The other thing I love about the Sunflower analogy is that it needs the sun, just as we need the truth.Imagine a sunflower shielded from the sun all its life. An entire field of sunflowers, germinated, sprouted, and shielded from the sun.Can you see the ugliness; the lost glory, the weed that...
We were coerced, were we not, into leaving our mothers womb. We wept. We fought. We struggled to remain. We were coerced into leaving our mothers teat. (For some of us, first day at school was a nightmare.) Puberty. Somehow, we find it so hard to believe that we are to change to become who we are...
Facts are not TruthWell, we want to think we are continuously dealing with reality.So we say things like “Hey! This is reality!! Suck it and continue. I’ve got a terrible boss, idiotic colleagues, stupid income, nincompoops as relatives—nothing can ever change!I don’t hate my life but I’m...
Change or Be ChangedHave you noticed change having this characteristic? When it occurs without our design and management it usually disables or robs us. When we architect it, more often than not, change benefits us.We will change. That fact is inescapable. The choice we have is this: will we...
Fundamentally there are only two types of people: Dull & Alert.One places trust only in the tangible, the other invests in the intangible.Dull businessmen, for example, are those whose desire is solely to make money.Alert businessmen are always striving to create a market. They strive to call...
Colluding with Circumstance.Are you finding it easier to spend money than spend emotion? Are you finding it easier to give your daughter a career, than find her a husband?Sometimes we tend to blow everything out of proportion to escape the...
So what is it that we actually don’t know already? What is it, that we’re so ignorant about, that if we could somehow get to know we would be more successful?So many people go about mouthing the blandest clichés and market these vociferously, with a rapidity that perhaps no machine-gun can...