James Clear explains in Atomic Habits that your environment is the invisible hand that shapes your behavior.
Great leaders understand this and are quick to address the resulting elephants in the room. Right now for instance it’s helpful to admit that this is not a normal work from home situation.
Is it possible to keep pace with the Usain Bolts of this world if you’re a bit slow? Heck yeah!
Just ask the 2016 Japanese relay team. They won silver in the Olympics despite none of their four members ever running a 100 meters in under 10 seconds.
I’ll be wearing this home made mask in public spaces until the pandemic is over. It’s not just about protecting myself. It’s mainly about Ubuntu and protecting my fellow South Africans.
When faced with uncertainty and multiple options, leaders should consider how reversible each decision is. Balance that with how bad things can get if you are wrong, and you have a helpful framework for making good decisions.
There are three observations that stood out for me this weekend. Note the decisions I’ll make today don’t have the potential to cost or save hundreds of thousands of lives, so feel free to take my arm chair critique with a pinch of salt.
Nobody cares about your R2 million banana during a prolonged global financial and health crisis. As the ancient saying goes: Shit is about to get real.
History will record that Donald Trump chose the exact day on which US cases leaped past that of China to call it the “CHINESE Virus”. Its hard to find words to describe just how terrible his statement was. But I’ll give it a shot...
Are our governments and citizens panicking in the face of the Coronavirus threat? That depends on your definition of panic. In this article we use Greek mythology and toilet paper to explore this question.
