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If immersing ourselves in challenging situations can boost our growth, what can we learn from running a 350-kilometre ultramarathon? When I raced the Delirious W.E.S.T. 200-miler along the Bibbulman track in Western Australia, I expected to gain new insights. What astonished me was that running for almost 69 hours primarily...

As our vast world shrinks into a progressively diverse global village we are, more often than not, called on to lead, work and teach in situations where there is more than one culture at play. Acquiring the knowledge and skills to manoeuvre effectively in multicultural environments is increasingly important. This...

CEO’s need to study weak signals, anticipate and translate into a foresight, manoeuvring the survival imbroglio. VUCA has several forms, some ‘expected-known-unknown’ to the extreme version ‘unexpected-unknown-unknown’. Which category does your business fall into? Have you dissected the asymmetricity in your organization? We were inspired from selected seminal papers, ground...

Leadership in today’s global world is a multicultural challenge laden with complexity. Whether leading across geographical borders or navigating increased diversity at home, one of the key challenges is to align people of different cultural backgrounds to work together to fulfil the same objectives. It is fair to say, it...

The only thing certain is that we are living in a time of uncertainty.   Yet many organisations are failing to realise that their leaders must become resilient and learn to navigate disruption.  This goes far beyond corporate wellness programs, which don’t work. This new paradigm needs a new strategy...