by Jonathan Cook | May 22, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 11 February 2025) Over five decades at work I have had plenty of management inflicted on me, while I inflicted it on others. But I have also had the opportunity as teacher, researcher, consultant, coach and business owner to observe...
by Jonathan Cook | May 7, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 28 January 2025) Rudeness has been shown to have a damaging effect on both individual and team performance. So why has it become so popular? What is the impact on impressionable minds of the success of Donald Trump at the polls and...
by Jonathan Cook | Apr 3, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 14 January 2025) In a time of great fluidity in culture, politics, and economics, I think it would be great if managers held the line on values. Managers have a substantial impact on the thinking and behaviour of their people, so...
by Jonathan Cook | Mar 6, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 10 December 2024) What threat to humanity can ordinary businesses help prevent or mitigate? I don’t think most of us could avert nuclear war, mitigate the next pandemic, prevent intelligent robots from taking over, or shield us from...
by Jonathan Cook | Feb 20, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 26 November 2024) As a boy I was captivated by C.S. Forester’s Hornblower series. In one of the books a ship carrying a cargo of rice survives a stormy battering. Each day the inexperienced captain carefully checks for leaks, but...
