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Forget Uberising. LEGOrise your business.
Last week I found an old box of LEGO in a box in my garage. It still contained all the necessary ingredients (the box with a picture of the end result, the…
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A global new year (vol. 2)
Following last year’s little experiment to see where in the world people I knew spent their New Year’s eve, I asked them all again. Why? Because I’m curious about where people spend their…
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“But is it done-done?” How billion dollar industries still get it wrong.
There’s a fine line between done, and done-done. My father-in-law works in Safety for a large commercial airline carrier. Every safety-related incident – from an engine exploding inflight, to a pregnant woman mistakenly placed in…
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Make yourself an option
Two weeks ago I bumped into Kevin and Allison at Cape Town International, all – it turned out – on our way home to Lanseria. While catching up about the weekend, they told me…
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The Power of the Ask – What CEOs believe makes a successful CEO
When we started 21Tanks almost a decade ago, we had no products, all we had was perspective. Yup, perspective. Knowledge that we’d acquired over the years (that we thought was valuable) and a network of…
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Are you a Thought Leader or Thought Follower?
Mitch Joel from Mirum explains the term ‘Thought Leader’ as follows: A thought leader is someone who is sharing (in text, images, audio and video) their own unique perspective. That would be the “thought” component…
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Why your #selfquote strategy should die a fast, horrible death
I remember it like it was yesterday. Confucius, Aristotle, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou and Steve Jobs sitting in their light-wood-design co-working space, plugging away on their Macbook Airs, trying…
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Dolly Parton had it easy: Why 9 to 5 is not enough anymore
Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 is a beautiful representation of the dull, mindless slog most people feel like they go through every single day, in order to get their paycheque at the end of the…
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The Indicator Dilemma
Indicate [in-di-keyt]  verb 1. to point out or point to; direct attention to 2. to state or express, especially briefly or in a general way; signal In my experience, most cars on the road have indicators…
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was onto something!
It amazes me that in today’s opportunity to learn, grow and do better, the world is still full of idiots. German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote “By seeking and blundering we learn.” Well, it…
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