by Jonathan Cook | Jan 30, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 29 October 2024) In what respects will humans outperform AI in management? As a psychologist in management, I have felt pretty secure that my particular gift of understanding and facilitating human interactions would be difficult for...
by Jonathan Cook | Nov 27, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 1 October 2024) I have long been intrigued by the interplay between ordered structure and exuberant energy in human activities. When we have wonderful energy without the discipline of structure, the energy can be wasted in...
by Jonathan Cook | Oct 24, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 17 September 2024) Some apparently unique business ideas go boldly where no one has thought to go before, while other ideas fail because they have been tried before, but have been filtered out by some intrinsic flaw. Where is the...
by Jonathan Cook | Oct 9, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 20 August 2024) As I was preparing this column I received the utterly shocking and devastating news that the chief developer in a small company I am associated with had suffered a sudden heart attack and passed away. Gone. It’s a...
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,...
