Tag Leadership

Netflix and The Culture of Reinvention

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Good morning. I hope you’re well and that someone is bringing you coffee in bed… Six weeks ago, I wrote to you from Inside Covid. A week later, as Covid spat me out, I wrote that I’m Still Standing. Since then, we…

How to rebuild: The Lego Story

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There are forty days until the end of the year. We all thought last year would be tough, but this year has been harder. Many of us have been ill, some of us had existential struggles for physical survival under…

Stop and Listen

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When I wrote the first issue of this letter on 19 January 2020, I had no idea what would unfold over the next two years. As it turned out this letter, our conversation, has been a guiding light through tired…

Leadership lessons from Siya Kolisi

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I hope that January has treated you well. It’s over tomorrow. That feels ridiculous to say, but it is. At some point, I will write to you about time, but that’s not today’s journey. As you may know, I live…

Psychoanalysing South Africa

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Over this week, I was reflecting on last week’s expressed intention to write about Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch. I was about to say to you that it felt like a heavy topic to be exploring in the second last month…

Love The People You Lead

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This delicate sculpture by Atang Tshikare will make your heart smile. He created it in the heart of lockdown. It speaks of life, of growth, of the possibility of renewal. I thought we all need to be reminded of that possibility.…

Lessons from Jim Collins

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Good morning everyone I wrote today’s letter from bed. Generally, my week is made up of a trilogy of foundational habits – yoga, meditation, journaling – overlain with regular dips into great fiction. In the last 10 days, I have…