Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 52/365 There’s been a narrative going around for as long as I can remember that employees leave bosses not companies. The blame is placed squarely on the leaders’ shoulders. A 2019 DDI study found that 57% of employees have quit because of their boss and 37% have thought about leaving […]
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Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 51/365 You’ve probably heard the expression, ‘think outside the box’. That’s a bit of a stretch for most of us because we can’t even think inside the box, and when there’s no box, we can’t think at all. Constraint has a negative connotation, implying limitation and restriction. There’s nothing we […]
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Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 50/365 Imagine that you’re a contender in a game called life and that the world is your gymnasium. We’ve been taught that our job is to play the game to win. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t been winning at business, love and life a lot lately. And […]
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Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 49/365 Millions of people believe that Charles Darwin coined the phrase, “survival of the fittest.” It was actually philosopher Herbet Spencer who coined it five years after reading Darwin’s Origin of Species. What Darwin actually said was, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most […]
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Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 48/365 I saw Joey Evans’s presentation “From Para to Dakar” at The Tryst in Woodmead on Tuesday night. It’s a powerful story about how a terrible motorcycle accident left him a paraplegic with no chance of walking again. Through grit, belief, an unbelievable ability to endure pain and the support […]
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