8th of March – 16 years ago – my father thought it was hilarious that I had given birth to a baby boy on the International Women’s Day – “Only You!” he said. So I wonder if I have done my bit – growing up a young man who I believe is on track to accepting people […]
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Ever been given a hospital pass – a project that was spiralling towards hell and you walk in as the superhero who has been assigned to salvage it and turn it around? If that isn’t scary enough, then picture your first meeting with the team of such a project: team members are frustrated – ready
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There is no turning back from the fact that technology rules our life. We can no longer carry out our day to day life without computers and smart phones. Yet organisations remain divided as IT and Business. Business of course is the generic term given to anybody who sits outside the IT group – much
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I recently completed a review at a client site. The review was on their project management capability. The findings are really interesting although not at all surprising for me. The organisation is a well respected name in the FMCG world. About two years ago they rolled out the Agile methodology and they have adopted it
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Being a woman in the modern world! Chances are you are already a superhuman combining 4 roles – a mother, a wife, an executive and a homemaker! Now you wonder why your stress levels are high and why you are low on energy and motivation? You feel you are good at nothing, unable to achieve
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Often, with under-performing teams, it is the people aspect that needs focus – not necessarily the processes. A typical fix though, is to review processes and perhaps whack a few more in the hope that things will start working …. After all processes imply structure and if there is structure then someone must know what
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8 Dec 2014 – a day that changed my family forever. This was the day we lost our father in the form we knew and recognised him in. From a tangible body, he became an all-encompassing being / energy. Death is a word I cannot associate with my father. Death is final. My father lives
Relationship is the way in which two or more people interact with each other. As soon as you meet someone, there is a relationship established. The question is what kind of a relationship is it? Is it a resourceful relationship or an unresourceful relationship? Are you in harmony? Or are you always at odds? Before
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Nature vs Nurture has been a long standing debate – in the development of a human being’s personality, what is more dominant? Nature or Nurture? My work in coaching adults has shown me how nature can be moulded via nurturing to produce resourceful behavioural traits. Nature acts as a filter through which a child interprets
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Someone very close to me recently tweeted “marriage has nothing to do with a happy relationship”. It is amazing how little the rules of life change. Marriage is the documented structure between two people. However, relationship is the actual state of play. And very often you will find that the “documented structure” and the “actual
