Kindness is a wonderful thing.
It is a value recognised in most cultures and religions. It’s a pleasant disposition that shows concerns for others. In his book Rhetoric, Aristotle defines kindness as “helpfulness towards someone in need, not in...
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I am coming through a very uncomfortable stage in my leadership development. But it has been worth it.
For nearly two decades I have been leading the Back In Motion Health Group. As founders, my wife and...
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An old allegory, recorded more than 2000 years ago by the inspired writers of the Gospels, tells of a man who sows seed in the garden. This fabled story is called the Parable of the Sower and can be...
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40 years of life experience and observation convinces me of this truism: “When you change a leader, you inevitably change a team.”
The profundity of this truth has landed more concretely for me as I’ve reflected over Christmas.
Strong and...
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Leadership
One of my most impacting personal discoveries of leadership is best represented by the story of a little seven-year-old boy who observed the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. You can read the story here: www.gauraw.com/story-of-a-butterfly/
It’s...
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Ever noticed that people enter a pool in different ways?
Some will put their toe in the water and slowly wade in while doing those abdominal exercises of sucking their stomachs in because of the cool water. The elegant...
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A fitness expert in the US recently identified an unexpected way you might be slowly killing yourself.
Shin Ohtake cites a Stanford University study (published July 20th, 2017) that just found that believing you’re not getting enough exercise can shorten...
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‘10X’ is an iconic symbol that has come to mean something specific in our contemporary pop culture.
10X is a shorthand that originated in Silicon Valley where software engineers were expected to achieve ten multiples of productivity through the...
read moreJohn Stephen Akhwari is a Tanzanian Olympian who struggled to complete the 1968 Olympic marathon after he fell during the race cutting and dislocating his knee.
As he pushed himself through the pain and one hour after the...
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