Why You Should Always Listen To Your Wife

Why You Should Always Listen To Your Wife

Something darted across the road, disappearing into the bush and gold-infused 
dust of an early morning in the Zambezi valley.  When we reached the spot where it had crossed, 
I stopped the Land Rover. “What are you doing?” my wife asked, as I opened the door and got...
5 Dangerous Things To Teach Your Kids

5 Dangerous Things To Teach Your Kids

Khwezi,” I said, throwing my son the car keys, “there comes a time in every young man’s life when his father teaches him to drive.” I was obviously joking, Khwezi is four, but it got me thinking. We live in a world that’s subjected to ever more stringent child...
How To Survive Office Politics

How To Survive Office Politics

The influential management professor Andrew DuBrin once said: “To ignore office politics is to ignore those underlining forces that account for the differences in success between equally talented people.” With up 
to 40 competitors for every post, you need to manage...
Barack Obama’s Speech Lessons

Barack Obama’s Speech Lessons

You can find the secrets to Barack Obama’s success as a speaker in Aristotle. That’s right: the old philosopher literally wrote the book on personal and political persuasion. And as a speech and rhetoric maven, I can tell you that what worked for the Greeks back then...

Should I Clean Up The Clutter?

Tidy desk, tidy mind, right? Well, maybe, says a a new study reported by Psychological Science. But hold up before you start organising that miscellaneous pile of paper that is gathering dust on your desk. The study showed that both tidy and messy work spaces have...