Awareness
In 2017 I will aim to post less than I did in 2016 when I was posting one insight a week. Up until August 2016 I was consistent with my posts, but as you have probably read, I have gone through dramatic shifts in terms of my world view.
2016 Was the year that symbolises completion and wholeness for me – the year I realised Read more “2017 – Believe!”
Business
What is the most dramatic change that you would implement in your business?
Would you let everyone do whatever they want whenever they want to as long as the work gets done?
How much are you controlling?
Is it necessary?
How much are you responsible for the innovation and adaptation in your business?
What can you let go of in order to create? Read more “Would You Do This in Your Business?”
Business
A big part of my life is entrepreneurship. What do I mean when I use the word entrepreneurship? Well, that is actually a highly debated topic. Is a guy who starts selling life insurance and has his own little business an entrepreneur? Is the student selling rusks on the side while studying to become a doctor an entrepreneur? Is the guy with a website helping entrepreneurs become more successful an entrepreneur?
Yes, the popularised stereotype of the entrepreneur is the mad risk-taker that recklessly jumps out of the plane, Read more “Perhaps You Think Entrepreneurship is Not For You…?”
Business
Whenever I make a business decision and whenever I study the truly successful companies globally I find a powerful and simple similarity: Look to improve all the lives involved in any decision and profit will follow. Sure, you can ignore this in the short-term and simply look to benefit yourself, but in the long term the companies that earn the greatest profit (financially, emotionally, socially, etc.) are the companies that look to serve a greater cause than money.
The challenge is that in order to do this the leadership, and especially the ownership, of the organisation has to be focused on total wealth creation at all levels. This means that: Read more “The Simple Truth Behind Long-Term Business Success”
Connectedness
So, how’s work? …A question we get asked so many times a week; month; year… What do we answer? “Hey man, it’s fine.” Or maybe: “Same old.” How about “It’s going great!” Perhaps not so much. The reality is that no matter where you work, you are expected to conform to the values, principles and beliefs of the organisation (if it’s big) or the values principles and beliefs of the entrepreneur (if it’s small).
Once you step into the corporate space you are transported to a place where you have to submit to a moral environment that is not the same as at home. In the evenings and on the weekends we have decent relationships, have full access to information, partake in decision making, operate with autonomy and freedom and pay attention to what makes us happy.
Too frequently however the corporate teleportation device beams us into an environment where our true capabilities and creativity is caged by a demanding, invisible shareholder and manager. Read more “Moral Teleportation”
Awareness
I have been writing insights (what I use to call posts) for the about ten years now. Originally the writing came as expression of frustration and avenue for creative outlet.
Now the writing, and website, is an expression of, and avenue for supporting people to live, not just survive.
Deep inside we all long to live a life worthy of the gifts that have been bestowed upon us.
I add value to entrepreneurs and leaders at all levels. …Those who firstly realise that in order to fully be alive you need to challenge yourself.
Today more than ever my focus is becoming clear. What started out as an exploration with a foggy lens is becoming a laser-like focus and this journey is what I use to help others do the same. I have spent thousands on searching for the path of wisdom. I have spent years developing the mindset that brings fulfillment in ALL areas of life. I am not satisfied with second-best! I am only interested in a life that is better and better every day.
Business
Over the last decade I have had approximately 15 jobs in about as many organisations. It has ranged from consulting to coaching and facilitation to lecturing. I could not still because I was hungry to find out who I am; what I am good at and ultimately I wanted to have an impact by adding value from my highest potential.
This has not changed a bit! In fact, I have now entered a phase in my life where I am starting to weave together, or craft, a fulfilling career from following a calling. After high school I took a year off and it was during this year that I discovered passion and purpose deep inside me. It is a passion and a purpose that is eternally inspired.
Left to my own devices I would have most probably not been as alive as I am today – who knows where I would have ended up!?
…But here I am crafting a career from calling. The big insight for today is an old one: Read more “How I am Crafting my Career from a Calling”
Business
As much as I believe in the current and future potential of the people I work with, the clients I serve and the students I mentor, humans conform to systems whatever they are. We can’t help it. Once we encounter a system we are confronted with a choice: conform or rebel. Perhaps their is a nuanced approach (there always is) depending on the severity of the system, but at the extremes there are ultimately only two options over the long term – conform or rebel (in a good way).
I see it on a daily basis – whether it is a system to manage payments in a shop that is demanding and that reflects distrust or whether it is a system of control, like signing in and controlling people’s movement, we are confronted with systems that influence our lives.
Organisations seem to forget that systems are not neutral or passive, they are normative. They carry the values of those who created them. When putting a system in place it can empower individuals to make their own decisions, encourage cooperation, streamline the business or it can hamper progress, encourage dissent and destroy morale. Read more “The Power of Systems”
Business
As much as I believe in the current and future potential of the people I work with, the clients I serve and the students I mentor, humans conform to systems whatever they are. We can’t help it. Once we encounter a system we are confronted with a choice: conform or rebel. Perhaps their is a nuanced approach (there always is) depending on the severity of the system, but at the extremes there are ultimately only two options over the long term – conform or rebel (in a good way).
I see it on a daily basis – whether it is a system to manage payments in a shop that is demanding and that reflects distrust or whether it is a system of control, like signing in and controlling people’s movement, we are confronted with systems that influence our lives.
Organisations seem to forget that systems are not neutral or passive, they are normative. They carry the values of those who created them. When putting a system in place it can empower individuals to make their own decisions, encourage cooperation, streamline the business or it can hamper progress, encourage dissent and destroy morale. Read more “The Power of Systems”
Business
Earlier this week I spoke to someone that works in a division of a large multi-national company. Things have become rather challenging for them as the corporate culture has taken over. They used to be a smaller family owned operation but was bought as part of a global expansion by the large corporate.
Just this week another measure of control was instituted and everybody expected to comply. After this happened I had a chat with my friend and he said that “we must just wait because when a good company like this makes changes things will improve.”
I asked him to reflect for a moment and indicate whether the changes thus far have brought improvement – a resounding no! Read more “Change Brings Improvement. …Not quite!”