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Personal Mastery
#190: How To Be Effective/Lessons from Peter Drucker
I apologise. I know that all effective conversations have four components – establishing relationship, deepening understanding, exploring possibilities, and agreeing action. Last week, I ignored this. It was a month…
#189: How to Be Successful (& eat well)
Good morning my dear friends We’re back. I trust you have had a good start to your year. I started my year compiling my 2024 reading list (These were my favourite books…
#187: Questions for powerful reflection
Dear friends Thank you for your messages after last week’s letter. Although it broke format and ran much longer than usual, it appears it resonated. I appreciated the feedback and the…
#184: Sitting and Thinking
Good morning good people This week, I intended to share insights from Shafiq Morton’s A Mercy to All, which tells the story of Gift of the Givers and its founder, Dr…
#183: A little more Sigourney Weaver
Dear friends For those of you inspired by the Springboks, but despairing that South Africa (indeed the world) seems to not have many other leaders, I have just bought Imtiaz Sooliman…
#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…
#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…
#173: Be Who You Are
Dear Friends Thank you for your messages following the Love + Work and Build Better Teams letters. I appreciated understanding how they were useful for you. If you’d like to comment…
#160: The power of words
“All around the world, we feel uncertainty and want to connect with what roots us to heritage, to the past, with something that has meaning.” – Manchán Magan Dear Friends…
#152: Do What You Do Best
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…
#148: How to be a thrilling little machine
“Essentially, the whole process is: intuition plus iteration” – George Saunders Good morning friends I have wanted to write this letter for many months, but it has felt too difficult to…
# 145: What the CEOs Are Saying
“Leaders are the emotional thermostats of those they lead, and our habits as leaders can spread like a contagion” – Chip Conley Dear Friends At the end of last year,…