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302: Questions Give Answers

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Dear Friends You know that from time to time, I segue into art and wine. Well, jazz too, and sometimes classic cars, and architecture, and cute critters, and, well, anything that catches my eye. These three have all appeared here…

292: How We Murder Our Dreams

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Dear Friends For several years, I have told you to buy Banele Vakele’s Tembela wines. Despite my wine vocabulary consisting of yum, meh and never again, it appears my advice is worth considering: Banele was recently named the overall winner in…

#156: Stories that stick

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Last week’s letter focused on getting people ready, willing, and able to change. It reminded us that if we don’t build organisational support and momentum around a strategy, it dies (This letter from March 2022 shares more insight from the Fit for…

#154: What We Owe the Future

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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness” – Martin Luther King Jnr. Dear friends What we owe the future, is the title of a book. It…

#152: Do What You Do Best

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This week’s letter was meant to be about war. I have sensed that the metronomic coverage of war with its detached geopolitical, strategic, and bland technological-capability-of-the-weapons aloofness was obscuring my vision of the truth. As we approach South Africa’s Human…