The Ripple Effect Blog
RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY
I have had countless conversations about how to go about designing the perfect Incentive Scheme. In a world where business leaders grapple with concepts like accountability, performance, loyalty, sense of urgency and personal ownership within their teams, many default to money as the mechanism to manifest them. When people are […]
Levels of Conscience
I have always been intrigued by the workings of conscience. What has this fascination left me with? The idea that there are distinct levels of conscience within people and when I say within people; within the same kind of people you possibly have employed. Levels of Conscience Level 0 – no […]
Self-govern
How many people do you know that are mature enough to self-govern and self-manage? Police themselves, traffic police themselves, discard of their litter in a responsible way, smoke only in designated areas, do everything with a win ǀ win approach, pay taxes over correctly and even think safety, health and […]
You can lead a horse to water
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Now what do you do if you can see that the horse really, desperately, urgently and critically needs to drink. What then? Do you just give up and say “you can lead a horse to water …….” […]
When will it ever stop and when did it really start?
People fight. It’s one of the things we do. Family fights, legal battles, fights against fights, wars, fights for dominance and even inner conflicts. We justify our fights. They did, she did, he did, even the inner child-based conflicts are due to some adult. And those adults, when asked why […]
The Voice of Reason
When everyone around you seems to going mad, will you be the voice of reason? When you are going mad will someone be your voice of reason? Before I continue please note – this blog post is not titled “The Voice of The Reasons”. There are plenty of those I […]
Can’t wait …..
Can’t wait. Living in the Western Cape we are hearing these two words followed mainly by the following words – …. for the rains to come. This makes perfect sense considering the severe drought we find ourselves in. We need the rain but according to our past rainfall patterns it […]
Love me for a reason ….
“Love me for a reason …” It’s a line from a song. As it so often happens we hear songs while traveling in our cars and this was such a case. “Love me for a reason, and let the reason be love.” I didn’t choose the song, I chose to […]
Leaders that discredit leadership
As I fly back to the Cape my thoughts turn to leadership and to some of the goings on in the Southern tip of our continent at present. When people talk about leadership, I have noticed a tendency toward “half-fullness.” The word tends to get people to lean toward the […]
My activity and me
I love asking people how they are as I generally do care, and I am fascinated by the answers I receive. Some of my least favourite to hear: Hectic. Busy. It does not help to complain. I recently ran a session where we spent time exploring the difference between ourselves […]