On Sunday last week, I found myself on a panel adjudicating business pitches presented by entrepreneurs from around South Africa. They entered the Legends in the Making Competition and won the opportunity to attend a weekend entrepreneurship boot camp in Pretoria organised by Somafco Trust, a social enterprise focused on…
Advancing women into senior leadership positions is everyone’s responsibility
The burden of increasing female representation in senior positions needs to stop being a women-only agenda – in the same manner that topics affecting minority groups are erroneously assigned to individuals from those groups instead of the majority groups that are in a position of influence. In business, the main…
Pause has power to keep you sane
Tensions are running high as the various parties resume negotiations on which coalitions will be in effect and for which municipality. One would hope that tensions would run high only in times of high pressure and then quickly subside. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We have all become accustomed…
Authenticity is heartbeat of leadership
Often when people think about what it will take to grow into the next level of leadership, they consider what they would need to change about themselves so they can appear to be ready for their next role. Instead of focusing on growing our skills, often we end up suppressing…