#188: A Love Letter
My dear friends This is our last letter for this year. I will return on 21 January. We started the year reflecting on The Power of the Powerless and here…
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#186: The Ministry for The Future
Dear friend It’s the last month of the year. Today’s letter is only soul. It’s longer than normal and breaks our normal format. It’s more contemplative, a lot more. I felt…
#185: Leadership Lessons (from Dr Imtiaz Sooliman)
“Don’t underestimate the value of a good deed. It comes back to you in a blessing – not necessarily material, but in ways you can never imagine”Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman Dear…
#182: Rugby, wine & Aliens
“If you don’t know who you are, anyone can name you”Michael Meade Dear Friends Last week’s Rugby World Cup win gave South Africa and Africa much joy. Today’s letter includes…
#181: Leadership Lessons (from Rassie Erasmus)
“If you want to achieve something you’ve never achieved before, you have to do something you’ve never done before” – Rassie Erasmus Dear friends This Simons Town week has been…
#180: Embrace Your Inner Weirdo
“…exclusion levies emotional, financial, social, and other costs that affect not just those who are excluded, but those who exclude and work to keep that exclusion in place. The more…
#177: Leadership lessons (from Siya Kolisi)
Dear Friends First off, please take a moment to congratulate Cape Town author, CA Davids, whose intelligent, life-complicating, and therefore enriching and expanding book, How To Be a Revolutionary, this…
#176: Leadership Lessons (from Beatrice Tollman)
Good morning friends If you’ve had the kind of week I had, then you’ll appreciate this baffled tiger and this curious baby elephant. In fact, even if you’ve had the best week of…
#175: Good Leaders Love
Good morning all Today, we’ll get straight to it… Or maybe not… I keep looking for a way to share Cape Town Heritage Foundation’s Instagram page with you. This beautiful…
#172: Build Better Teams
Dear Friends A few weeks ago, I opened The New Yorker to read about a trash-eating sea monster that had appeared in the Hudson. The monster was the WasteShark, an…
#167: Team building: A Provocation
Good morning friend My week started with Nonkululeko Britton-Masekela saying these kind words, and it ended with Nomvuyiso Batyi saying this. In the middle of the week, my birthday celebrations…
#166: Communicate like a bulldog; make it compact with a strong core
Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it Proverb via The Africa Centre Good morning my dear friends If you’d like some music for your Sunday,…