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272: Zohran Mamdani. Tanitoluwa Adewumi. JM Coetzee.
Good morning dear friends If you liked last week’s quotation from Joanne Joseph’s Children of Sugarcane you might enjoy this one from Wole Soyinka. Today’s letter draws lessons from Zohran Mamdani’s victory,…

271: Will Guidara. James Clear. Octavia Butler
Good morning dear friends This community loves learning, loves reading, loves books. You understand that different perspectives create richer possibilities. You’ll love this list – acclaimed Zimbabwean novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s favourite…

270: Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality (Part Two)
Good morning friend This week’s letter continues our exploration of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect. If this is your first time…

269: Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality (Part One)
Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect is the inspiration for this week’s letter. Roger Martin, co-author of Playing to Win, one of…

268: The Inner Life of Rebellion (Krista Tippet, Parker Palmer and Courtney Martin)
Last week’s letter about Jeff Wicks’ The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran Had to Die is, thus far, 2025’s most read letter. It displaced Stephen King and Strategy, and Culture…

267: Babita Deokaran. Jeff Wicks. Friendship and Courage.
Good morning friends Thank you for your feedback on my evolving LinkedIn strategy. I appreciate your time and support. Please feel free to give me input at any stage; it…

266: Making sense. Olga Tokarczuk. Arundhati Roy.
Good morning friends This time last year, I decided to up my social media game. An Instagram page was created for the newsletter. Two things happened. One, it felt performative.…

265: Culture. Tenderness. Heritage.
Good morning friends The joy of writing this letter is consistently receiving feedback that enriches my world. Last week’s provocation about innovation refracted through Thomas Edison, resulted in me learning…

264: Helen Lewis. Adam Grant. The Genius of Relentless Execution.
Good morning friends /strategy Helen Lewis is the author of The Genius Myth. She argues that we should speak not of geniuses, but of moments of genius. This formulation, she…

263: Jennifer Pahlka. Amy Edmondson. Albert Einstein
Good morning dear friends Four years ago, Jerome September, the University of the Witwatersrand’s Dean of Student Affairs, started a postgraduate reading club. This year they’ve been reading No Last…

262: Uncommon Service. Radical Imagination.
Dear Friends Before we get started, thank you to everyone who commented on my new website copy and, in particular, on the curated leadership learning journeys I’ve been piloting. There’s…

261: Creating Conditions for Uncommon Service
Dear friends My coaching practice has, as it should and all things do, evolved since I started it in September 2019. I recently rewrote my website’s copy to reflect those…
