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    Guus Hiddink, total football and innovative teams

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    Well, Guss Hiddink has done it again. Can you believe it? This man (read, marvel) has yet again taken an underdog team,  hopelessly under-achieving on the world stage, turned it around through a solid foundation of expectations and playing methods and then successfully cajoled them into high-performance mode to be 2 wins away from lifting the Euro08 Cup. The […]

    Street Mimes and Civil Innovation

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    “It seems that I cannot escape writing this post. Early on in my foray into the blogosphere I crafted a post all about the street mimes in Bogota,  Columbia, and their instigator, Mayor Antanas Mockus. The post, however, never saw the light of day as my computer lynched itself and shutdown, losing my masterpiece. I […]

    Response to Ergo Blog: Long weekends and Living Assets

    Friday, March 14th, 2008

    Very interesting topic of discussion @ the ergo blog. Read Col’s post before reading my response below.
    I remember hearing Marcus Blackmore (chairman and founder of Blackmores) speak at a CSR conference I attended last year about his attitude towards ’soft’ assets and their associated upkeep. His point of view was that each staff member of Blackmores […]

    X Rated employers: For adults only.

    Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

    Rant: Companies should be treating their employees as adults.  I think that people, generally, are smart and intelligent. Which is why I tend to cringe at the horribly cliched, tried and true values and mission statements that are floating around at the moment. Read any corporate web page/annual report/csr report. Boilerplate. We care about customer service. […]

    Biomimicry in action: Sour Grapes and the wine industry

    Thursday, December 13th, 2007

    How does a winery use Biomimicry to great effect to continuously keep soil quality, and thus wine quality, high? It lets weeds run rampant!
    I was watching Uncorked, the Stuart MacGill show on Lifestyle, the other day (yes, hold your laughter) and was happily shocked by how much the wine industry has begun adopting biomimicry techniques in […]

    Greasing the Pole??? Leadership and having that “successful career”

    Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

    Found a great article all, written by a guy taking a retrospective look at how his career progressed, verses his much more ‘networked focused’ co-worker. The article basically looks at the idea of substance, and I think highlights just what the better leaders of today have - a certain sense of humility and self-esteem derived […]