The Ripple Effect Blog

At school any boy who inflicted a black eye on another would invariably use the same ‘justification’ – “He asked for it!” At dinner tables, when children decide to perform the old stretch technique to collect the tomato sauce from the far end of the table, parents...

Two wrongs don't make a right but beware when ten wrongs start to change the view of what is right. While growing up I remember hearing my parents say that two wrongs did not make a right and I remember too the impact this statement had on my conscience.  It became...

Please stop what you are doing for ten minutes to read and reflect on this blog entry. Strategic planning, daily planning, those moments of mid-life crisis, in fact any situation where looking up and taking stock will be valuable, remember these three words… Stop,...

Should it be that we have time to sleep and other time to think?  I think so. A very common concern many people have is lying awake at night thinking.  Not a problem necessarily, until they add that they would like to or need to sleep but they can't stop thinking. I...

  I always understood values and the importance of having values, and having walked into a multitude of South African companies and noticing their values up on their walls, I knew I was not alone in this understanding.   Throughout my working life I have...

I have had countless conversations about how to go about designing the perfect Incentive Scheme.  In a world where business leaders grapple with concepts like accountability, performance, loyalty, sense of urgency and personal ownership within their teams, many...

I have always been intrigued by the workings of conscience.  What has this fascination left me with?  The idea that there are distinct levels of conscience within people and when I say within people; within the same kind of people you possibly have employed. Levels of...