What is your ONE thing?

 

That one thing.

When all is said, what is the one thing that you did that only you could have done?... Perhaps, the one thing I did is write my story.

Did you not know that leadership is not for the strong!

 

Did you not know that leadership is not for the strong, the clever, the wise  nor the elite!

Rather, leadership and enterprise favor the brazen and those who persist.

The government is not anyone you can talk to

 

The Government is not anyone you can talk to.

The Next Generation Corporate Leaders are among us!

 

CHRM EXECUTIVE DIPLOMA IN CORPORATE LEADERSHIP

The next generation corporate leader is an independent worker with a corporate responsibility, able to convert any place into a workspace to deliver consistent, self-driven, high performance outcomes using available digital tools to influence people, facilitate productivity and ensure service delivery. This 21^st century leader is a global thinker equipped with the generative skills of a consultant and entrepreneur, yet maintains contact with networked teams to deliver client promises. The leader knows that what they do today affects tomorrows reality and thus plans for growth, deliberately programs activity and solves problems on the path to desired goals. The CHRM Executive Diploma in Corporate Leadership prepares you for promotion  as a leader and is an investment in your career success.

This powerful program is suited for independent business executives, supervisors and middle managers seeking to advance a corporate career in a challenging post-COVID world! Graduates are equipped to be effective leaders as well as more productive as entrepreneurs, people and business managers. The program is ideal to develop your On-line or in-house corporate team. Click here to sign up for the next Online Cohort or talk to us at CHRM College for a program to equip your leadership team for the realities of a New Normal global business environment.

A Great Man just stepped off the Planet! Help me say goodbye to Bishop Michael Sande

 

Goodbye Mike, Goodbye Bishop – Till we meet again!

The other day a light went out on Earth and a flame erupted in Heaven- signaling the return of an angel. I never knew a man who could say so much in so few words. Soft, refined and well defined phrase. My last engagement with Mike was at a coffee shop. Mike was on the way to a board meeting when I bumped into him. I enjoyed a secret privilege to pay his bill as I left him seated eating a fruit salad – an insignificant amount compared to what he had done for me over many years. In case you think I am talking about a hobo, make no mistake, Mike was a Bishop, but unless someone explained to you his credentials you would never know. Such was the gentleman, patterned after his master Jesus the Christ. To all of us teenagers he was just Mike. Sometimes Mike on the mike. The title did not make Mike, Mike made the title. I was privileged to have him as one of my seven fathers when I and a hundred other young people in IMANI needed a father, mentor, patron and brother. Together with Mrs. Sande, whom we respectfully called Mama Jessica or Mama Olando; they gave us an open home, a taste of heaven and paid for our musical dreams. With an astute mind he taught us, guided and chastised us. And even had some of us married. Never did he mention a forgiven wrong. He never raised his voice, never demanded, but he did ask – ever so politely. In life he lived a testimony, in death he has brought us face to face with our own mortality. Would he want us mourn, perhaps… a little maybe, but for him it would be more important that we each make our own peace with God. You may think I am talking about an angel, but believe me I have not described half the man. Of the Bishop I will let others speak. Mike has gone ahead to the promise he held us to keep – Up from the grave he arose with a mighty triumph ... Yes, a light has gone out on Earth, but a flame is burning in Heaven. No words can describe the pain, but the gain is that we shall see him again, if we hold to His Spirit. We love you Mike; we will miss you, rest well - till we meet again.

How Transformative Thinking works

 

 

This paper explores how business leaders can use transformative thinking to successfully facilitate corporate transformation in the 21st Century. The author explores the principles of transformative leadership put forward by published authors alongside the challenges of ensuring a business remains sustainable in a dynamic environment. The paper lays the groundwork for empirical research on transformative thinking and corporate transformation as a base for the development of sustainable business policy and organization development strategy. The author argues that business leaders have the responsibility to ensure their organizations stay attuned to the operating environment without losing focus in serving the needs of an evolving customer base. The article challenges business leaders to engage transformative thinking as a way of generating superior, non-traditional outcomes and creating a paradigm shift in organization performance. Click here to download full article.

 

Take your Business through a Hyper-Jump in 2021

 

Take your business through a hyper-jump in 2021

I am writing my final business article for 2020 and I am thinking what might be different for business in 2021. Why should it be different and how has it been different in 2020? We are now familiar with how COVID-19 disrupted business through social-distancing, travel bans and broken supply chains.  We had to quickly and immediately find out how to do things differently. What we may not be fully aware of is the significance of those “hyper-jumps” we were forced to make to adjust to the new conditions such as moving from offline to online and working from home instead of an office building. It has almost become second nature to call for home deliveries instead of going to the store. Less than a year ago, these hyper-jumps may have seemed surreal.

So what has all this got to do with 2021. Well, while these “little” shifts in behavior may have been considered as emergent and temporary, they are now beginning to assume a sense of permanence. In other words, we are getting used to doing things differently.  Some of those hyper-jumps have been so beneficial that many businesses are looking for ways to establish them in their normal operations. Indeed, industries are looking for ways to make further inspired hyper-jumps like moving from petrol to solar power and from labor to automation permanently! The gentle nudge by COVID-19 has set off a believable train of thought that things can actually be done differently. Is it possible that 2021 will trigger even bigger levels of innovation and creativity? Could professionals, companies and industries be looking for ways to regenerate themselves through beneficial hyper-jumps. Production may never be the same with the opportunities opening up for rebranding of careers, generation of new ideas and the need for new product designs. So why not take your business through a hyper-jump in 2021! God Speed!