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Is this Ubuntu or Emotional Intelligence?

  This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC I recently wrote a journal paper on how to integrate strategy and culture for ...

Friday, April 26, 2019

What drives you prizes or passion?


In the matter of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation there are those who wait for the capacity to do to be externally aroused through visual, visceral and exterior prizes. But there are those whose arousal is obtained through identifying with values and objectives and thus reward themselves by the pursuit of those designs in which they find fulfillment.  External motivations last as long as the stimulation recurs, internal drives last as long as the passion remains. Those who rely on external stimulus are understandably impatient and are happy to sustain the routine of gratification to hunger- satisfaction is not the aim. Those that rely on internal drives are more patient and more persuasive in their arguments for the big picture – to them is granted satisfaction of a promise fulfilled.

Every organization has a SOUL


Every organization has a SOUL. Every organization is first of all a Society, then an Order of hierarchical governance and structure. For an organization to exist it must have an  Undertaking and finally an organization must have a Leadership that can be consulted for direction, control and accountability. Leadership alone, independent of an organization context can achieve no more than a winner of a marathon.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

The worst thing a nation can do to its people


The worst thing a nation can do to its people is to eliminate them from the process of education and lock its citizens out of its education system. By doing so the nation fortifies the positions of the privileged and invites poverty on those denied access to knowledge.