Deep Sustainability

Deep Linking Leadership Development to Organisational Behaviour

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In the past decade much of the truly transformational leadership work happening in organisations has been driven from a place of self mastery. This approach is however being challenged by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and the author of the new book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” who shows by categorising our cognitive flaws, that knowing oneself is not enough, not nearly enough to be the effectual leaders we need to be. Separate research released in September 2011 by the Minneapolis based consultancy Modern …


Creative Entrepreneurship – Going Beyond the Business Plan

Posted on by Elaine in Art and Business, Business education, creativity, Deep Sustainability, Strategy | Leave a comment
THINK INSIDE THE BOX

This is a post written for my Business Acumen for Artists students at UCT GSB. Background Much of the criticism levelled against the use of a business plan for artists has been that many wanting to start a business have neither a need of venture capital nor a bank loan. Traditionally, business plans have been viewed as useful for these kinds of endeavours. I have changed the nature of this session to be focused on Creative Entrepreneurship because I do …


Truths, Trends and Trifles in Business Education – A Hacker’s Guide

Posted on by Elaine in 21st Century Leadership, Agility, Attention Economics, Business education, Curiosity, Deep Sustainability, Leadership in the 21st Century, Learner Readiness, Lessons Learnt, Productivity, Web 2.0 and Leadership Development | Leave a comment

One of the most important issues we are currently facing as business educators, and certainly in the field of executive education is the ability to separate out the truths from the trends and the trends from the trifles. I am indebted to my partner, Dave Duarte for this elegant distinction between these three lenses. It is well worth reading his blog post on this as it relates to the problematics of Social Media strategies. Truths The truth of what it …