Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to “lead”, influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
I was in Barnes & Noble over the weekend and beheld a seemingly endless collection of business books. Whilst thumbing through them, I noticed a mantra that almost all of the ones I looked at had in common – it’s not necessary to be completely right all of the time. Later that evening, I was…
Every once in a while, a sense of unease comes over me as if I have become untethered and feeling adrift from what I know. Not to be confused with the near euphoria I feel when I embark on an adventure into some unknown, this feeling of being detached is somewhat cold and comes with…
In 1996, my first assignment to South Africa for XONITEK was being hired by Macola-South Africa to train their personnel – and the personnel of their resellers – on how to implement Macola’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution. It was a very turbulent time in South Africa; apartheid had just ended, there was a new…
Let me start by just “laying it out there”: I am a Giants fan and have been all of my life. And I believe that Giants fans are some of the saltiest, most cynical and hardened of fans. For instance, we believe that the “prevent defense” really means to prevent us from winning, as opposed…
A few years ago, a good friend of mine loaned me a book entitled “The Elegant Universe,” by Brian Greene. He warned me that there were a lot of physics in it, and that it pertained to the essence of the universe, but that I might be interested in reading it. When I inquired as…
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” “When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the chards and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them…When I was sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, How soon unaccountable I…
