by Jonathan Cook | Sep 18, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day on – 3 September 2024) Once upon a time a bright young person launched into a career full of promise and maybe some foreboding. . . . Nothing captures the human imagination quite like a story. In his book The Storytelling Animal...
by Jonathan Cook | Aug 15, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day on – 6 August 2024) Corporate executives can learn about leadership from great conductors. Benjamin Zander is famous for teaching the art of possibility to youth and businesspeople. Here in Johannesburg our own impressive,...
by Jonathan Cook | Jul 31, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day on – 23 July 2024) How do leaders create a shared sense of identity, given that most workplaces are highly diverse? It’s an important concern, because a staff complement that is divided along demographic lines presents almost limitless...
by Jonathan Cook | Jul 18, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day on – 9 July 2024) One nonfinancial ratio that could be added to the financial ratios we all track is the ratio of external to internal priorities. Priorities that reach outward include anything to do with customers or clients, market...
by Jonathan Cook | Jul 2, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 25 June 2024) In 1968 Jane Elliot, a third-grade teacher in the little town of Riceville in relatively monocultural Iowa, USA, ran a daring experiment. She told her all-white class on the first day that those with blue eyes were...
