One page changes everything

Your strategic plan sits in a drawer. Fifty pages of thoughtful analysis, market research, and well-intentioned goals. You spent weeks on it. No one looks at it anymore. Here’s the problem: complexity kills execution. When your strategy lives across multiple...

Connection over collection

I’ve been watching this happen for years now, and I’m guilty of it too, with the blog. We count followers like we’re keeping score. We measure engagement rates. We celebrate when the number ticks up and worry when it flatters. But here’s what...

Admitting you’re lost

My dad and I used to get spectacularly lost driving around Johannesburg. No GPS. Just a folded-up map and his determined conviction that the next turn would somehow be the right one. It rarely was. But here’s what I noticed: He’d get us lost, realize it,...

When you’re ready

The teacher appears when the student is ready, they say. But maybe it’s backwards. Maybe the teacher was always there. The opportunity. The insight. The next move that would change everything. You just weren’t looking. Consider the radio wave. It’s...

The familiar trap

We call Brussels sprouts “disgusting” until we’re thirty-five. Then something shifts. The same vegetable—identical chemistry, same bitter compounds—suddenly tastes good. What changed? Not the sprout. You did. Psychologists call it the “mere...