How empathy can help re-write the rule book for workplace wellbeing For many, getting an MBA is about career progression. For Girly Letsipa, it was about so much more. She…
The great complexity theorist Ralph Stacey once defined most conventional strategy as simply an anxiety-reducing device for managers in a world of mostly unfathomable complexity. The confidence of having a…
Far too many of us are prepared to speak of a tax revolt. When we do, we merely feed the creation of a lawless society. We need to be the…
Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address covered every aspect of our society, including the increasingly precarious state of the environment, and it provided five specific targets for the next…
Daily Maverick, 18 June 2019 Opionionista – Jon Foster-Pedley STATE Capture, as we know it, took 10 years to fully metastasize into the kleptocracy that is currently being unpicked…
Cynics will decry Cyril Ramaphosa as an incrementalist more devoted to party than country. But like the heroes’ journeys of yore, South Africa’s return to its rightful place as Africa’s…
Daily Maverick, 16 May 2019 South Africa stood at the crossroads as the country went to the polls on 8 May 2019. Now with the ink barely dry on the…
The Daily Maverick, 6 March 2019 By Jon Foster-Pedley TIMES of late have been a bit of a roller-coaster – even by what passes for normal in this country.…
we don’t need leaders practised in the art of pathos – the ability to appeal to the emotions. What we need are leaders who can engage with logos (logic) and…
The new African heroes are people who take a risk, whether it be personal, political, professional or financial, in order to build something they believe in for the good of…
This kind of theft, whether public money or the deposits of the most desperate or the SOE and municipality funds that could have been deposited in the bank to cover…
mo As we move through the process of the State Capture inquiry, it can still be difficult to understand even the effect of blatant high-level corruption on the average family…
Henley Business School Africa Dean Jon Foster-Pedley The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 35-strong group of mostly advanced economy countries, has a cool tool with which you…
Profit is not intrinsically bad, but profit for profit’s sake alone is not just bad it’s unimaginably damaging.
Henley Business School Africa is launching a series of case studies covering businesses that were initiated in Africa and will be made available to anyone wanting in-depth African business case…
Akin to the distinction between merely hearing and actively listening, the faculty of speech and the ability to give voice to one’s considered and eloquently conveyed opinions should not be…
