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#207: Leadership Lessons from Caster Semenya
Dear friends Today’s letter meditates on leadership lessons from Caster Semenya’s The Race to Be Myself. It breaks format and is longer than usual. I think it’s worth it. In…
#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…
#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…
#134: Keep Going
It’s the 16th of October. We’re approaching the end of an arduous three years. Last year, Nicholas Christakis’s Apollo’s Arrow helped us explore the coronavirus context. As a reminder, Christakis…
#131: Do As You Must
This week’s letter has been hard to write. I have so much to share with you. As a start, I visited an exhibition of young artists at 99 Loop Gallery. Nazeer…
In The Face Of The Unfathomable, Seek Joy
In the face of the unfathomable, the most powerful thing that one can do is to seek hope, joy, and connection. It doesn’t make the nonsensical, sensible. It doesn’t make…
Spiritual Technologies
Thank you to everyone who sent me comments on how I have shaped my coaching offerings. They’ve been valuable to receive. If you haven’t yet sent me any thoughts, please…
Leadership lessons from Siya Kolisi
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…