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Is Creativity The Most Important Leadership Skill?

#CrayonProject, Creativity, Disruption, Innovation, Play

In 2010 in an IBM Global CEO study creativity was highlighted as the most Important Leadership skill by 1 541 CEOs, general managers, and senior public sector leaders who represent different sizes of organizations in 60 countries and 33 industries. Chief executives...

There’s Far More To This Decimal Point Than You Think

Disruption

Today, in Cape Town and London, there’s a celebration going on. A new name, a new brand, a new look and feel is being unveiled for a dynamic strategic accounting firm. Disclaimer: they’re a client of ours 🙂 A few years ago Lauren Summerton launched a...

An Unsafe Book You Should Be Reading?

Disruption, Organisational Design

It’s a question I often ask during a presentation I might be giving. A challenge to the audience around the books they’re reading, or rather should be reading. I’m of the opinion that, in business, we read what I term, ‘safe books’. The...

You can’t know how to be Creative, Disruptive or Innovative

Creativity, Disruption

Ever since I first read a book about innovation and how to bring innovation into a business, I was suspicious. And I have remained suspicious, no matter how many I read, or how smart the author. My suspicion is rooted in my own experience of creativity, disruption and...

What To Do About South Africa’s 2016?

Disruption, Strategy

What to do, what to do? 2016 has arrived, and what a terribly difficult year it’s expected to be for South Africans. China is in a slump. Emerging markets are taking a beating. Our President made some reckless decisions with regard to our Finance Ministry. Go to...

Hacking Education and Most Other Things

Creativity, Disruption, The Crayon Project

A Tedx talk from 2013. You’re bound to have seen it. If you haven’t it’s worth a watch. When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal. While the...

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