A bad habit is a pattern of behaviour that sabotages you somehow. The language associated with habit change is that you want to start a good habit and break a bad one. Breaking a habit assumes that the problem is with the habit, but really, it's about your beliefs,...

The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture. By Scott Belsky This is the story of author Belsky’s company: Behance. “We bootstrapped the business for five years before one of our products, the Behance Network,...

It’s the Summer of 1981. I am 10 years old and daydreaming in maths class when the screech of the intercom heralds an announcement by the disembodied voice of the gym teacher. “Would the following children please report for swimming team practice tomorrow after...

Have you ever had that awkward conversation where you have to deliberately curate every word in fear of upsetting the other person? That’s what 2022 feels like. Everything on the surface is going well so far, but you’re terrified of angering it. You’re looking around...

Are you a tortoise or a hare? I am definitely a hare: I rush out of the starting blocks at full tilt, only to run out of steam not very far along the way. Just this week in the steaming hot Drakensberg I went hare-ing up a track at top speed and then had to stop and...

I need this urgently. I need this by tomorrow morning. I need this first thing Monday (sent to you Friday afternoon). Red flag. Urgent response required. Please treat this as urgent. Done. Crickets. No response for weeks. The project is put on hold. Follow up, follow...

Can I be honest? Well, the truth is I never sat down and wrote out goals, dreams or resolutions for 2022. Nothing. Nada. I couldn't. To be honest I was too exhausted from what has been a very busy, demanding and personally challenging time. So I decided to chill and...

On the 29th of November, Janet Goldblatt, hosted by ORT JET, ran the last face-to-face networking event for the year. The focus behind this event was to help those in attendance to be the leaders of their future. In this article, we highlight the critical parts of...

It’s that time of year when I remind you that if you are feeling fatigued, frazzled and generally freaked out you probably have a case of Novemberitis. Novemberitis is the name I give to the cluster of symptoms that descend when we are feeling too tired to start...