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    The Tragic Story of a Mountain Gorilla

    Somewhere between present day Uganda and Rwanda in the Albertine Rift Mountains, lived a stable and orderly family of mountain gorillas; let’s call them the Smokey Family.  The family consisted of the silver-backed male leader called Hokey who stood at…

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    Reflections

    Sleeping With Bears

    When you find yourself in a leadership position, you have a choice: be a builder or a destroyer.  A builder of states, businesses, teams, dreams, lasting legacies and ways to improve on the world that hosted you for 70, 80…

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    Business Articles

    In The Company of Fools

    ‘When arguing with a fool, make sure the other person isn’t doing the same thing’ is an old proverb which I always ascribed to.  In 1999, psychologists Dunning and Kruger described a phenomenon of incompetent people who actually think they…

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    Business Articles

    The Value of Values

    Here is a trick question for you: what is the reason for every death that had ever occurred throughout human history?  Remember, I said it was a trick question.  Your first reaction is to say: ‘are you serious?  People die…

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    Business Articles

    Tolerating the Intolerable

    I have just finished reading Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and first year in Office. Irrespective of how accurate the author’s account is, Donald Trump clearly comes across as a shallow dictatorial character who demands…

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