Allow Your Business To Grow By Finding Your Flow
To have passion for what you do is good for business! Or is it? Recent psychological research suggests that some forms of passion may be detrimental, writes Scott Barry Kaufman of New York University in a Harvard Business Review article. He refers to two “flavours” of passion: harmonious and obsessive, and how it relates to [...]
How do you reply when asked: “Who are you?” Christoff Oosthuysen’s coach, Martin Jimmink, uses the model of the “Identity Iceberg” to help his clients in answering this question for themselves. Listen to Martin’s 10 minute interview with Christoff on applying the Identify Iceberg to Christoff as Business Improver and Flow Coach… Christoff Oosthuysen interviewed [...]
John Cleese is not only funny. He is also right… Listen to him explaining why being excessively busy and being interrupted will decrease your capacity for creativity and reduce the quality of your work. He says you should “sleep on it” to get the subconscious mind solving problems you are working on and follow the [...]
It’s common knowledge that the driving force in our economy is knowledge and information. However, notes Naspers’ internet head Antonie Roux in a recent Maverick article, it is creative companies that are now succeeding. “Fortune did an analysis over the last 10 or 20 years of the successes and failures in Silicon Valley. In the [...]
Do you take pride in your work and thoroughly enjoy what you do at work each day? Well, many would say that they just do a mundane job, and that there is little to enjoy in their responsibilities. Not correct! And I can prove it… Just visit the men’s arrival wash rooms at the Johannesburg [...]
“In the Western Cape, thousands of vehicles were being recorded on the N1… Provincial Traffic Chief Kenny Africa said traffic was bumper to bumper on Sir Lowry’s Pass and added that they expected traffic volumes to increase later.” – Eye Witness News And there we were, along with thousands of other holiday makers, heading towards [...]
Stumble upon something insightful and you just have to tell about it & share in the find! Take this five-year old post by Paul Graham. It may be a bit long for quick blog readers, but its worth investing a few minutes of your time… To do something well you have to like it. [...]
BOOK REVIEW: Marketing 3.0 – From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartaua and Iwan Setiawan. Published by John Wiley & Sons. 2010. The title of this book by marketing guru Philip Kotler, and his associates, says it all – marketing has entered a new era because customer demands are [...]
Imagine getting five important tasks done every day, instead of just your usual four! Well, you can achieve this incredible increase in productivity by taking just one simple step — switch off your message-reminders! You can get into your flow and increase your productivity with 17% by removing distractions such as new inbox alerts on [...]
