The holiday tension : a polarity

The holiday tension : a polarity

Holiday season is here, and you may feel like you need a rest after a long year of work. You’re looking forward to relaxing and doing nothing. At the same time, you now have the time to complete all the tasks that you haven’t done during the year: that painting job...
Stop everything!

Stop everything!

One of the most profound transformations I was involved with started with the vision of one man. He was an inspiring leader, very top down and had had a calling. He wanted to radically change the structure and ways of working of his organisation by flattening the...
A Lego workshop in slippers: why not?

A Lego workshop in slippers: why not?

I recently ran a Lego® workshop where the participants were wearing slippers. They were wide awake, but they were simply already at the workshop, comfortably seated in their living room. For reasons of confidentiality, we decided to hold the workshop in the...
A South African crossroads

A South African crossroads

Let’s play a little guessing game. In South Africa, there are several ways of crossing a junction, depending on the context: The classic, familiar context: all the lights work and you follow the traffic lights 🚥 The dangerous context: some of the traffic lights work,...