Dear friends On Friday night, in solidarity with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez we drank a rather delicious 2013 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Bosconia. We ended the meal with Not Tonight Josephine, Duncan Savage’s superb small batch…
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 Place to Rest by Dr Dineo Skosana. Immense possibilities are…
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 changes. If you have the time, I’d appreciate your…
Good morning good people As always, thank you for being here. You can read past editions of the newsletter here and find our favourite quotations here. Time Out Magazine released their Best Cities of 2025 ranking two weeks ago. It was…
Good morning Last week’s letter focused on a key moment of leadership displayed by Springbok rugby captain, Siya Kolisi. Enrique López Ponce, Nordex Group’s Vice President of the International Business Development Division, and Alfie Jay, managing director of Algoa FM, pointed…
“…leading teams becomes a lot more joyful when you know and care about people. It’s freeing.” The Trillion Dollar Coach Good morning friends In the course of my coaching work, I am often asked, “How do I have more effective…
I am convinced that aeons ago the deities of the Kalahari and Antarctica came to a grudging agreement regarding Cape Town. The summer months would be time for the spirits of heat to dance through our streets. Some days it…
Last week’s email reflected on how psychologically unsafe environments destroy value by silencing people or, more insidiously, by creating conditions in which people do not feel safe to speak and so silence themselves. In the silence, value is hidden. Amy Edmondson, Professor…
The absolute joy of writing this letter to you each week is the generosity that comes back. After last week’s letter I was given copies of Oliver Sacks’ autobiography On The Move and Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees.…
Our language often captures age-old truths that science then confirms. We celebrated people who are ‘grounded’. We stress the importance of ‘knowing our roots’. When someone has ‘deep roots’ in a community, they are connected and add value. These metaphors…