Once in four years, just once, we get a day extra in the year. Today 29 February 2016 is that extra day. It is like a bonus extra day we get once every four years. How about you spent this day, just once in four years, perhaps we could: Forgive, forget, relax, care, stand out,…

The Minister of Finance Pravin Gorhand tabled his budget speech a few days ago. One of the things he said among (many others) is that “the average South Africa is becoming poorer.” This speech comes a few weeks after Anglo America announced that as part of its restructuring, it will sell off 39 assets and…

.... sometimes it is better to leave them closed, not because of pride or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere. There is a proverb that goes “Se nkganang se nthola morwalo”. It is a Setswana/Sepedi saying that means, literally translated: What which rejects me, releases me from the burden. Sometimes it is…

.... Is better than an idea that is too late for its time. When Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press, only 7% of world knew how to read. One skeptic would have easily told him it is not a good time to invent the book, with 93% illiteracy rate in the world, there is no…

Innovation remains of the key critical factor that drives society forward. Progress on any country is determined amongst others by how innovative that country is. I looked forward to reading this book as someone who is very passionate about innovation and blogs about it often. The first few chapters of this book talks about the…

"Once a year, go someplace you have never been before." -- Dalai Lama Go somewhere. You can even make an international adventure out of exploring your home town. Exploration ignites excitement and curiosity in our souls. If I could travel to a new place every day, I would jump at that opportunity in a heartbeat.…

You can copy and paste what someone else has done and do some slight edits or you can actually spend time going deeper in understanding something. You might not be willing to devote the time and energy to understand how electricity actually works, or the mechanisms of your democracy, or the insights behind irrational decision…

Ten years ago, Seth Godin published one of his bestseller book called Purple Cow. In the book he argued that in a media-saturated marketplace, there is no room for average products for average people to gain the same foothold that they used to. Merely pushing an idea via relentless ad spend is no longer sufficient.…

Something I often tell myself when I approach a project is “This might not work.” Everything that you have never done before might not work. When you do creative and innovative work, “it might not work.” But the fact it might not work is exactly what makes it interesting. When I started this blog five…

Doing work that "matters" does not mean you need to transform into Mother Teresa. You can make a difference in the world many ways: The interior designer who helps to renovate a children's hospital creates a healing environment for patients and their families. The bicycle shop owner who refurbishes old bicycles and donates them to…

Creating something with your hands has a physiological way of inner happiness. The feeling a writer gets when writing chapter after chapter, putting the manuscript together, getting the book reviewed, getting the book cover designed, the back and forth of review notes from the editor, reading and re-reading the book, making final changes, and ultimately…

Even with mountains of facts, you can still fail to resonate. That is because resonance does not come from the information itself, but rather from the emotional impact of that information. This does not mean that you should leave out the facts entirely. Use plenty of facts, but accompany them with emotional appeal. There is…