Neil has been a journalist, men's magazine editor, Internet entrepreneur and company managing director. He has been a performance, leadership and life coach since 2004. More →
THE ABILITY to think on one’s feet and make quick, clear decisions – then stick to them – is a desirable quality in a leader. As long as they’re getting it right more than wrong, people admire them, draw strength from their confidence – and secretly want to be like them. What’s their secret? Well, [...]
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The value of a leadership coach can run to tens of millions People often ask what is the bottom-line value of coaching, and here’s a classic example. A story in the Sunday Times yesterday showed how the share price of telecommunications, multi-media and IT holding company Altech had dropped by 5% on the news of [...]
Read more →Self-serving pettiness arises when the greater vision is not being served The response of the Blue Bulls management to the pending appointment of their executive of rugby, Heyneke Meyer, as the new Springbok coach is an example of poor and petty leadership. They let him go, and then they childishly announced it the day before [...]
Read more →Leadership by consensus is often no leadership at all. If you hand the same project with the same materials to a hundred children – or adults for that matter – you will get a hundred different results. Each one will be unique. OK, maybe a few cheats will copy the others, and maybe by some [...]
Read more →The newspaper reviews would have you believe that this movie is an inside view on how the masses get swindled by the moneyed few. If you go in there with that jaundiced view then of course you’re going to find all the evidence you need to support it. The story is in fact much smarter [...]
Read more →“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” Never were these words of John F Kennedy more relevant than in South Africa today.
Read more →The real lessons in life are seldom the ones we want When we learn the lessons in life that we think we need to learn, we generally learn nothing at all. The real lessons we need to learn are the lessons that life has in store for us. You know when you’re due for your [...]
Read more →I’m learning to listen. To really listen. Of course, coaching is all about listening and so I could say I’m a trained professional listener and that’s the end of it, but then I wouldn’t be listening anymore – listening for what there is to still listen for. The movie Tornado is a story about a [...]
Read more →Being uncertain is the launching pad for personal power If there’s anything you’re certain about, anything you’re 100% sure that that’s the way life is, that’s the way God made us, then you can be certain about one thing more: that you’re fooling yourself. What you take as the absolute truth is simply the current [...]
Read more →One of the greatest realisations that people get from attending workshops is the realisation that they’re not alone. For most of our lives we keep our cards to ourselves like poker players; the energy compounds, and we feel worse about our ‘situation’. Just sitting in a room with other people, hearing the presenter say something [...]
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