You wake up early every day to go to work! Sometimes it’s not easy but you still drag yourself oit of bed and show up. So, make sure you build what they cannot take away from you: • Expertise • Reputation • Relationships • A body of work • Adaptability • Financial resilience • Health One day the job will end, no matter how smart & hardworking you are, someone else will eventually sit in your office and carry your title. Make sure you build career assets that travel with you. #CareerWednesdays #CareerAdvice #Leadership #CareerGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment

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Growth is when local talent becomes global presence. Asibangene Bafana, it’s our time!

Smart people overthink, causing them to question things and be stubborn. Maybe they don't want to be directors at a big corporation because they hate bureaucracy. Smart people are also more in tune with the reality of life and view the world in a more negative way. My belief is that less intelligent people are more successful because they aren't stuck in their head all the time evaluating things, self reflecting, etc. Just my opinion.

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RT @charlotteukcity: He carried a fridge on his back for the London Marathon, which was a representation of carrying something which over t…

I flew with @KenyaAirways last week, and it was the WORST EXPERIENCE ever. 1. The plane was parked a gate away from where passengers were called to board. A gate away. So why use that gate then? Heaven alone knows. And get this - we had to walk on the skybridge, outside the airport building, down the flight of stairs into the tarmac and make our trek to the aeroplane to board the plane… OUTSIDE THE AIRPORT BUILDING, AND it was raining. Yes, raining! So all the passengers had to WALK IN THE RAIN to board the plane. And we then had to wait outside for the passengers ahead of us to board. So, the rest of us WAITED IN THE RAIN. We eventually boarded, drenched! Absolutely crazy. 2. The staff at the boarding gate were chewing gum, talking amongst themselves, and treating passengers as if they were doing us a favour. Gum. Loud laughing. Rolling eyes and demanding clients. Kuningi nje. 3. My bag was badly damaged — really badly. While the bag is expensive (no need to get into the cost or the brand), they say I should have the bag delivered to them so they can take it to “their assessor” to decide whether to replace or repair it. By the way, the bag is so badly damaged that it can't be fixed. I fly… A lot. I have already boarded over 40 flights this year. Last year, I travelled to over 20 countries. I live in airports & airlines. I regularly have unpleasant experiences on commercial flights. I am not a sissy. I don’t complain. You take the good with the bad. But I can tell you this for free: this KQ experience was horrendous. It would have been more pleasant to pour Tabasco sauce into my naked eye & then blindly stir into a lunar eclipse. Anyway, back to your regular scheduled program. VT

MHS and the probability of a settlement during Sunday's negotiation As much as there have been years of inconclusive and extremely costly war between Russia and Ukraine, and as much as the Trump administration will again be leaning very heavily on Ukraine to agree to a settlement, the technical read of the probability of that happening tomorrow is low. Complex, destructive conflicts that cannot be resolved by the one party knocking out the other, are best resolved when a technical condition known as conflict ripeness (see William Zartman) is reached. This condition can be manufactured by skilful guidance. One of the crucial components of this unstable condition is the so-called MHS position, or a mutually hurting stalemate, where the parties are forced to work at alternatives to their original goals. The more profoundly both parties experience that MHS, the harder they work at creative solutions. And here we see a remarkable situation where neither party is at the point of MHS - Ukraine because of the help of other allies, Russia because of the role that the US has been playing. This means that the harder the US is trying to settle this, in this particular manner, the more difficult they make it for both parties to reach that MHS, which in turn prolongs the war. This does not seem to be by design, given the sense of urgency and pressure the US is bringing to bear on Ukraine. Technical errors and/or lack of experience in the US negotiation team, capitalised on by Russia seems to be the most probable reason. In Sunday's public negotiations, keep an eye on efforts to create that MHS

Execution is everything. I get bored of ideas very quickly. Dont really care what it is unless its really dumb. We only invest in people whom can mae it happen… learnt that the hard way

A necessary read... The difference: "Empathy involves feeling what others feel, often by internalizing their emotional states as one’s own. Compassion, by contrast, involves caring about others’ suffering without becoming emotionally engulfed by it."

i think one of the healthiest things i've ever learned is that you should allow others to reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. Give people space to become who they are without assuming you know who they are just because you've been friends/family for years.

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My series on Chinese conflict management and what we should be learning from it continues in the October edition of Business Talk

Major cheat code for life: build small pockets of doing nothing on purpose. The line at the store. Waiting for a meeting. Sitting in traffic. Those are chances to think. Most people bury them in their phone. Leave space. Just let your mind wander. Don’t numb the gaps, use them.

Knowledge is a perishable commodity. It has to be reaffirmed, relearned, re-practiced all the time. Peter Drucker

Once you understand the seasonal nature of life the hard times aren’t so difficult. It will pass, you just gotta maintain your energy and sustain your drive until things get better. And they will get better, they always do 🙏🏿❤️

Forest sunset walk at Emmarentia Dam 🍁🍂❤️

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“I took a journalist there to do an interview” has to be the latest version of “the dog ate my homework”.