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The window effect method and It’s application for future African Leadership
Chet W. Sisk is an award winning author and leadership trainer who lives in Denver, Colorado, USA. His books include “Seven Steps To Success I Learned From Homeless People” and “Because You Can: A Proven Method To Living Life Like You Mean It”. He provides keynotes, seminars and workshops around the world and has worked in Hungary, Morocco, France, Canada and South Africa as well as throughout the United States.
Good leaders don’t grow like mushrooms says Eric Mafuna
Eric Mafuna is the Group Chairman & Project Leader of The African Leadership Group (ALG). ALG is an initiative seeking to encourage effective African Leadership in South Africa as well as in the rest of Africa.
Looking up for a way forward
GOOGLE the word “leadership”, and you’ll get 171-million results. Add SA, and you’ll still end up with a staggering 13,6-million results. From the Afrikaner battle cry for a new De la Rey to the glossy Leadership Magazine and presidential succession saga, there’s an obvious need to grapple with the leadership issue. That’s what business mogul Eric Mafuna has been preaching for about 30 years now.
Wake up call for South Africa’s HR profession
The HR profession in South Africa badly needs to update its systems and processes, but the lack of a common policy and the absence of a driving, overall interest in new systems make it unlikely that change for the better will occur widely, in depth, or quickly, says Malcolm Birkin. South Africa is regarded as a country notable for very successful change.
Ubuntu and Cultural Intelligence as key competencies for the future leaders of Africa
“We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both Black and White, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in the inalienable right to human dignity; a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world”. Nelson Mandela.