Judit Polgár is singular, not only for her prowess in the male dominated game, but also for how she learned to play. Unlike other famous players such as Bobby Fischer who spontaneously developed an obsession for the game, Polgár's chess genius was no accident. Instead it started with one man's mission to raise genius children. Years before Polgár faced the…

Judit Polgár [born 23 July 1976] is widely considered to be the best female chess player of all time. At age 7 she won her first game against the chess-master blindfolded. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE [Fédération Internationale des Échecs or International Chess Federation] Top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January…

After watching him give a TEDxJohannesburg talk on servant leadership at the Soweto Theatre in 2015, I was an instant fan of Ian. It is not an accident that when I saw his book at a local bookstore I had to buy it and read it. The Soul of Sorbet is an amazing book about…

Daedalus was a brilliant inventor, the Thomas Edison of his day. Unfortunately, he angers King Minos, the ruler of the island Crete, and he is thrown into jail located at the top of a building on an island. Desperate to flee the island, Daedalus uses wax to build some wings for himself and his son…

Joe was in a real fix. The equipment he scheduled to hire from the builder’s supplier had accidentally been hired to another customer, there was no alternative machine available for a month. Joe needed to do something fast, if he did not the job he was working on would be behind time by weeks and…

There is so much said about leadership. And, rightly so. Leadership is not a hat you put on for a few hours and remove at the end of the day. Once you take up responsibility, you are expected to be accountable for the results of everyone you lead [and this could just be yourself]. Everything…

When news agencies publish news that country X is the first to do this or that, how do we know that the claims made are true? Do we fact-check that claim? Ordinarily ordinary people don't do fact-checks, they take the news as gospel truth. And this is what Ryan Holiday in this controversial book talks…

There is an obvious application for imagination when you are leading a team. It is in imagining an inspiring vision. “Visionary” is often among the first words used to describe great leaders. And, the word “visionary” is associated with a leader’s ability to conjure a vision few others had thought of. However, there is another…

The laminated sign next to the order and pay point at the cafe read: “We can’t and we won’t serve you while you are ON the phone. We need to engage.” These are the first words that greet every single customer [not just the rude ones]. On the flip side, when I email a colleague…

On one of Mandela’s long morning walks, he turned to his biographer and said: ‘You have never herded cattle, have you, Richard?’ Richard Stengel said he had not. Mandela nodded. As a young boy of eight, Mandela had spent long afternoons herding cattle for his mother or some others in the village. He explained: “You know, when…

Is there is crisis of Capitalism? What is the future of Capitalism? Collier wrestles with a tough problem. If you measure by things like GDP growth and lifespan, life is better for more people around the world than it has ever been. And yet many people are questioning the capitalist system that produced those gains.…

There are those who when things are broken, they are the quick to defend themselves as to why it is not their fault. And there are those who go on the offense and blame others. And then there are those who find solutions and fix things. They look at the situation and then come up…