Issue 5.4 | September 2015 In this Article: we continue to reflect on how to rethink our assumptions to lead better. Here we examine the charity sector. Because this article explores a landscape (and an argument) that may feel quite foreign to [ … ]
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Becoming a Better Business Leader: Unlearning Capitalism
Issue 5.3 | July 2015 In this Article: we build on last month’s article (how to unlearn flawed assumptions that hinder transformation) by showing how we can unlearn the flaws of Capitalism, and do business better. Next month we will focus [ … ]
Read MoreBecoming a Better Leader: Learning to Unlearn
Issue 5.2 | June 2015 In this Article: how to unlearn the flawed assumptions that prevent us from transforming our world and ourselves. by Jonathan Wilson On a lonely mountain airstrip surrounded by rainforest, two foreign workers and their [ … ]
Read MoreGood Business: Abandoning the Miserly World of Profiteering
Issue 4.3 | July 2013 In this Article: doing business out of self-interest makes for bad business. by Jonathan Wilson Ten years after the wrack and ruin of genocide in Rwanda, I visited the tiny but infamous country. [ … ]
Read MoreThe Rush to the Future: Wisdom and Knowledge in Leadership
Issue 4.1 | March 2013 In this Article: knowledge comes from the future, but wisdom from the past. by Jonathan Wilson Earlier this year I transitioned, for just a few weeks, between universes. I passed from the business world [ … ]
Read MoreBeyond a Hollow Victory
Issue 3.10 | August 2012 In this Article: how we define success will define how we get success. by Jonathan Wilson Through the lush hills of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a road winds past quiet fields and woods and descends [ … ]
Read MoreIs Your Business Good at Doing Business?
Issue 3.5 | February 2012 In this Article: how corporate social irresponsibility drives the destruction of value. by Jonathan Wilson If Canada has any prophets, Stephen Lewis is one of them. Like the ancient biblical prophets, Lewis is a [ … ]
Read MoreWhen Fear (Disguised as Initiative) Runs Your Business
Issue 3.4 | January 2012 In this Article: how a misguided sense of urgency undermines value creation. by Jonathan Wilson If patience is a virtue, the world of business, which has exchanged fear of God for fear of Darwin, [ … ]
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