#236: “Respect words and use them artfully”
Good morning good people Thank you for your comments after last week’s letter, Fragments For Freedom. It was good to know, it resonated with many of you. Several readers shared Ezra Klein’s Don’t…
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#231: Daniel Pink’s To Sell is Human, Pt 2
Good morning dear friends This is 2024’s final letter. This year’s favourite letters were How To Listen Better, Love &, Stay in Your Comfort Zone and How To Be Effective,…
#229: Be a Problem (Finder)
Good morning friends If you’re coming to the Cape this December, here are a few options to consider. For wine bars – Leo’s for edgy wines and a creative crowd,…
#219: Music Lessons for Leaders (thank you Sean Jones & NYO Jazz)
Dear Friends Today’s letter is a little different. Over the past few months, I’ve seen some spectacular musicians perform. I thought we’d reflect on the leadership lessons they teach us. Before…
#212: Managers can change the world
Dear friends Ten days ago, whilst working in the pre-dawn – that sounds hard-working, but in truth, winter sunrise is only at 08h00 – I heard a familiar yet always…
#210: The Inner Work of Leadership: Caring for Yourself and Others
Good morning friends Today is more essay than letter. It’s a bit long. I apologise, but is about your self-care, about self-care for leaders. It needed the words. I’d love to…
#207: Leadership Lessons from Caster Semenya
Dear friends Today’s letter meditates on leadership lessons from Caster Semenya’s The Race to Be Myself. It breaks format and is longer than usual. I think it’s worth it. In…
#200: Know Yourself. Share Your Gifts. Manage Kindly (with inspiration from Ruth Carter)
Good morning good people Unless you’ve been heavily sedated for the past two weeks, you know that Ms. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has released a new album, Cowboy Carter. What you may not…
#199: You can’t fake leadership (lessons from Hitendra Wadhwa’s Small Actions Make Great Leaders)
Dear Friends I hope you’re enjoying your long weekend. Thursday night took me to Swedish alto-saxophonist Fredrik Kronkvist gig at The Olympia Bakery. If you’ll allow me some stereotyping, I…
#197: Leadership Lessons (from Colonel John Boyd)
Dear Friends On 6 March, one of my teachers, Prof Edward Webster passed on. This weekend was his funeral and memorial service. It is said that when an elder dies it…
#194: Preach to your choir (thank you Robert Reich)
Happy Sunday friends If you love owls (who doesn’t?) Hirokazu Kozakai’s ‘O Wise One’ will make you smile. Last week, I told you that Cape Town gallery Southern Guild was…
#191: Being Effective (Part Two)
Dear All My holiday break, of course, included wine, I live in Cape Town after all. There was a lazy Winemaker’s lunch beneath Rust en Vrede’s oaks. Despite summer’s heat,…