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Our Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel delivered the 9th Annual Steve Biko Lecture at UCT on the 12th September to honour the great man’s life and work. Invoking the clarity, intelligence and vision that proved to be so energizing to a broken people, Steve Biko was brutally tortured and killed for it.

The parasitic corruption, greed and abuse of power that moved monstrously through the minds of those he stood fearlessly against, appear to have found new, willing hosts. The sanitizing spring.clean of Madiba and the Constitution offered a glimpse of the potential underneath the mess. But we’ve started to forget the dimensions of possibility we dreamt of together as we walked around our newly unified rainbow nation in 1994.
These days home’s looking a little like a gaudy hillbilly palace invaded by debaucherous misfits who’ve bullied their way in and raiding the place for any valuables.

Those who could stand against ethical rot with the class of courage and intellect of Steve Biko, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu seem to have been born in a time where heroes weren’t made of bendy plastic.

If it weren’t for the miracle of social media I have no doubt I’d have been less inspired by the Minister’s address. [Talk of government knowing that they have no hope of delivering houses, justice or hope without participation* from the community is no big surprise on the rewind. Good thing Trevor Manuel is an engaging speaker or I'd have been as asleep as the MPs who are outted on the live Parliamentary broadcasts.] Being outsourced the goverment’s snag list without the attendent perks wouldn’t have me rushing in with glee. And pegging all our hopes on those warm-hearted, overworked, overwhelmed beings in the NGO sector is as sure a bet as waiting for George Bush to become a vegan.

An energetic democracy requires some energetic activism. What a tragic waste of the precious lives of brave leaders if we’re merely swapping one tyrannical regime for another with a bit of heady free-time between.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt.
- MK Gandhi

Before the doors that have let in light and opportunity from the outside world are slammed shut, we have the opportunity to wedge in, evoke the courage of the ancestors and stand in the way of injustice. I’m sure there’s an illuminating strategy would work, but until a visionary leader actually emerges to bestow it upon us, I’m not going to be expecting a miracle.

HOWEVER if you are crazy enough to think that life could be more interesting that middle-America’s mantra of work-buy-display-repeat.. I say these times are custom.built for us. We are digitally-enhanced to stretch across the length and breadth of the planet, with the the power of the attention economy it’s a snap to gather communities of those with shared passions, AND lo! we have a worthy cause to engage some meaningful change to countless lives. Good heavens, for a wannabe hero, this is the place to get your game on.

It’s not a South African issue actually, it’s a global challenge to those of us who have these new.found tools to outrace the challenges that threaten to engulf humanity (if not in violent strife, then at least in choking consumerism).
Surely if we invoke the energizing memory of these great ones powerfully enough, we too can craft ourselves the right kind of leaders with bright minds, warm hearts and clean hands and once again change the shape of the world?

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* Ironically we didn’t get to participate, question or offer suggestions! Anyone else think it may be a really good time to offer the remaining forces for good in political office a helping hand into digital ubuntu and the wonders of Web 2.0 activism at work?

Thanks to the kind invitation from the Steve Biko Foundation.
[oh yes, the pic above is licenced under Creative Commons so please feel free to use & share (exciting if you attribute to me, Max Kaizen, but not essential) I took the pic on New Year's morning '08 from the southern tip of Africa]

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I had the enormous privilege last week of stepping in to lecture at UCT, in Dave Duarte’s place (which is VERY daunting I must tell you! He has people sitting in the aisles). The sheer size of the class is staggering, some fiercely bright Commerce students sparkling between those that aren’t there for anything other than obligation, this course being part of the core curriculum. There’s a saying that when 1 teaches, 2 learn, and never more so than this experience for me.

I tend to hang out, real.world & virtually with pioneers who operate actively in the participation economy and I had some assumptions crashed mercilessly. For example: when I asked one of the classes who uploads videos to share on Youtube, NOT ONE hand went up 8-*
I was floored!
With the ease with which we can shoot video on mobile phones?! I was speaking to a born.digital crowd for goodness sake. Or maybe not. Thanks to Telkom bottlenecking our bandwidth and charging like an enraged bull for communications, we don’t have the freedom to connect and share that we could. This has stunted our growth horribly, and leaving South Africa trailing behind, holding onto some tatty old has.been echo from the 80′s/90′s of economic empowerment of the elite.

Isolation creates mutants (think Galapagos) which may be good in part, in that we have to be more resourceful & creative about making a plan. Or we could lose our brightest minds who choose the path of least resistance, and head for a culture where greed of the few doesn’t impede the productivity and potential of a whole nation. Developing nations are the ones who can benefit MOST from the emergence of freely shared tools, global distribution, online commerce and opensource everything. What will it take to get the vampires from draining the life from this country?

Someone needs to point out how ubuntu is counter.intuitively one of the most progressive, enlightened and profitable economic models humans have experimented with. Like the resurgence of yoga, many global thought leaders (even Clinton LOL!) are vaunting the sexiness of this ancient African philosophy: where doing good & doing good business aren’t mutually exclusive.

It isn’t a communist delusion, but healthily democratic, and shares the best aspects of the ‘net – transparency, collective problem-solving, opensource sharing and co.creating culture serve the individual as well as the whole. Realising and amplifying the possibilities that tech.enabled innovation coupled with the natural ubuntu-like culture it engenders may be our last hope, not just in SA, but as a species.

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Gestalt: an organised whole that is perceived to be more than the sum of its parts.

One of the projects that I’m helping out with at the moment is the new Women in Leadership Programme at the Graduate School of Business here in Cape Town. It’s a premium 10day session for developing seriously powerful women. The kind of women who will change the world in some way.

But given that I’ve never been supportive of “women’s networks”, because I think that in the same way that the too-hot-to-touch Black Journalists issue is divisive; groups that are delineated by that that we can’t change like race, age or gender (okay, maybe without major surgery) rather than by passion, profession or play, only serves to separate.

But heaven knows I’m wrong about a lot of things, and this may be one of them. (I think my early opinion may have been swayed by the horror of going to an all-girls convent school – which only served to make me more wary and confused by intricate female politics. Teenage girls are one of the most formidable forces of nature and should never be underestimated!).

Watched Isabel Allende’s simply wonderful TED talk, and decided to revisit my prejudice. I started paying attention to where women lead best, and unsurprisingly collaboration, communities and networking are strongholds where women flourish. It’s also where the terrifying “tall poppy syndrome” is rife though. It’s the force that subtly slams those who rise too fast, and killing the pioneering ones is the most efficient method to maintain mediocrity. And slowed success.

But that’s a subject all on its own & not one for now: for now I’d love to share & celebrate the extraordinary value (doing good AND doing good business) created by two powerful African women leaders using the collaborative model.

First (an icon of the environmental realm and Nobel Laureate) Dr Wangari Maathai whose recent feat of enabling the planting of a BILLION trees through the UN and her Green Belt Movement floored me, this hasn’t been cheered or emulated enough. She is utterly phenomenal and worth getting a dose of brave inspiration from.

And happily for us in SA, wonder.woman Sizani Ngubane (pictured right at the Women’s Global Green Action Network in Mexico) who founded the Rural Women’s Movement in Kwazulu Natal, mobilised over 500 women’s groups to promote sustainable development, economic empowerment and participation in policy.making. The movement has approximately 50 000 members and growing strong.

Thank heavens for these forces for nature, powerful women who believe against current models of tried and tested, safe routes and naysayers that the improbable can indeed be achieved with clear vision and mass collaboration. Rock on!

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“Don’t give up before the miracle” I remember seeing this as one of the quotes from some luminary at the Hands that Shape Humanity tour.
Miracle, no less, was used to describe the unexpectedly peaceful birthing of the “new” South Africa after the first free elections. Thanks to the transcendent midwifery skills of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, it didn’t end in a bloody mess as anticipated.

In the lead.up to the change.over of power, thousands of people fled South African shores believing the worst; the statistically probable future would crash in, leaving SA awash in civil warfare.
Once again the same quesiness has rocked SA, from all sectors of the community, thanks to the surreal soap.opera political show we watch avidly (if the electricity is on of course).

The “challenges” have been acknowledged to be at the level of national emergency by the president in his State of the Nation address. It’s not a sentiment issue this time around, the infrastructure is indeed buckling under the load of progress and short-term profit caching in South Africa.

We ALL know the well.worn “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” (thank you Herr Einstein), but it’s probably well.worn because it actually is an effective way to subvert problem paths that are ..well.worn. [Perhaps it was an on MP's email signature and it sparked a subconscious epiphany. Perhaps the backpressure of that exit door. Something changed.]

On 9th of Feb 2008, President Mbeki didn’t offer up the quite the same ‘Teflon Thabo’ political deflection speech we’re accustomed to hearing. This Business Unusual address did have all the usual political rhetoric politicians have been hypnotising us with for eons. But also the urgency of the last.chance that MAY well elicit action.

If his 24 “apex priorities” to accelerate change are actually enforced at the end of his erratic reign, it may ensure a more positive legacy in this president’s wake.
But I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Putting our salvation in the hands of a politician seems as dependable as the Eskom load.shedding schedule. The metaphorical punch may be where the value lies. If we intend to stay on in SA, there’s no doubt it’ll have to be Business Unusual for each of us.

Those who can innovate and do things differently (not more copycat derivative solutions from elsewhere) have the odds stacked in their favour.
Conservative, wait-till-someone-else-in-the-industry-has-had-success strategies will leave businesses faltering in the tracks of those faster companies that no longer regard experimenting with unusual ways of operating as a luxury, or just for the freaks in the creative department to tinker with.

Case in point: Someone who unexpectedly stole the show at the Opening of Parliament was the Fantastically Fabulous Fairy Godmother (seriously, I kid you not). Donna McCallum (the FFFG in question) preceded debate on the State of the Nation address; and got prime coverage on the news on all stations, and Top Billing and newspapers to follow.

There in official capacity, she sprinkled magic dust over the politicians. Since miracles are her stock in trade, she clearly isn’t phased by notions of silliness or statistical improbability on getting results from her efforts.

Inside her black suit, with fairy wings attached and wand at the ready, beats the heart of a woman who knows the power of the Attention Economy. She has forged her way as a business strategist through corporate corridors, and loses none of that edge in driving the success of Fairy Godmother Inc.

Hers’ is an an extraordinary, innovative and wholly whacky business: in between doing Dream Mapping around the world, find offerings of Giant Twister, Free Hugs, Nekkid Streaking and Trolley Races that she co.creates with 5FM. Utterly bizarre business model, but it works.
Business Unusual.
Borne of an epiphany on a bus somewhere in South America.

Have you been putting off your epiphany for lack of precedent? What Business Unusual could you unleash on SA? It may be a really good chance to do as the President is doing, and give those promised plans some last.minute vooma (or some believe-it-or-not fairy dust) before it becomes even more “challenging”.

I’m not convinced that this time the miracle could happen to us. Yet, if we dare to pioneer untested paths, perhaps even look a little foolish en route, it could happen because of us.

[Maybe the President and the Fairy Godmother are onto something there .. ]

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Practical visionaries, particularly qualified futurists, real geniuses (of the Mensa variety) who also happen to be genuinely good guys are rare finds.
Even more so if they choose to stay in South Africa despite the obvious lures from other shores for this unique & valuable combination. This Guy has a captivating vision for what we could be, as South Africans/ Africans within a global context. He speaks without the hypnotic ra-ra of sugar-rush motivational speaking, so often unfounded on anything but blunt patriotism.
Instead, strong, clear, sometimes challenging solutions – based on long-term strategy and unlocking present untapped resources – inspire real possibilities. This is what anyone fortunate enough to spend time with this man will see and hear.

If you haven’t been introduced – I’d be honoured to give you a little glimmer of the force for good that is Guy Lundy. If you read SA Rocks regularly, you won’t be surprised.. Guy has been celebrated here before (thanks SA Rocks founder Nic) for his legendary speech “I Pledge Allegiance“. The speech went viral after it profoundly rocked our Toastmasters group; passed hand to hand around the world when South Africans desperately needed the clarity and optimism it offered.

From that seed of hope a book was born, and then another, and saw Guy jetting around the world to share the miracle of South Africa’s unique lessons in transformation. His background as an economist and futurist offers an expanded view that most SA pundits need to provide solidity for their scenarios. Guy has an engaging scenario that was developed coming in as CEO of Accelerate Cape Town : Southern Comfort / Southern Tiger (THIS is well worth a read! especially if you don’t count yourself among the apathetic & would love to get involved in ensuring SA rocks).

If you’re also keen to bridge the gap between idealism and productive action (read: good business): stay connected to the projects that Guy will be initiating through Accelerate Cape Town. Join the Facebook group for updates. Or even better, if your company/organisation can afford to get Guy to come in to do one of his legendary presentions: this is a guarantee that your trajectory will take an upturn from re.visioning your future here.

Join in & get fit for a future that is increasingly disrupted, unpredictable and define your own vision given the opportunities and risks on the horizon. The more of us that have a coherent, creative set of targets to work towards the more likely it’ll be that South Africa will get her day in the sun. We became a more united, diverse, colourful nation that miraculously transformed into a democracy.. is that it? All our karma burnt up? Or have we got the capacity for more?

I believe with my head & heart that we do. And passionate about celebrating the work of the brilliant & brave individuals who step up and do more than just speak. Hence the series >>

There are few people who have inspired as much confidence to contain a realistic yet still determinedly optimistic strategy for our future in South Africa as Guy Lundy. Read his blog, his books or book him to speak ..and let’s get some vooma & accelerate with more confidence into an SA we are REALLY proud of.

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I missed out on a week of SA Rocks because I was lucky enough to be helping introduce a brand new course – Nomadic Marketing – at UCT’s Graduate School of Business, in the company of some of our finest web.minded ones. It was a success (whew) and for those who missed out, it runs again in October. Book early this time!

I really do try to move beyond the brilliant people from the south.west shores of South Africa. I keep saying, next week, but then I always HAVE to introduce you to just one more bright Capetonian making SA rock. No exception again today.

Today I have a threefold celebration/cerebration of genius:
1. the school 2.the director 3. the course

South Africa’s oldest university – University of Cape Town’s GSB – has held the leading edge in consistently ranking as one of the Global Top 100 MBA programs by the Financial Times (London). More noteworthy though: in the Top 10 for Executive Education internationally. Did you get that?! Top TEN in the world.

The blues.singing award-winning poet, MA(cum laude) & MBA-toting director of the
Executive Education unit at the GSB is no less than a force of nature. Elaine Rumboll has cleared a path for success for UCT among the impressive old giants of business schools’ fiercely contested short-course sector. Taking risks that seem to keep paying off, primarily choosing collaboration over competition is a fairly handy strategy. One of those risks was Nomadic Marketing.

Another is this >> Business Acumen for Artists >> a 13 week program that empowers the creatively talented with the practical business skills to forge a successful and profitable career from their craft. Musicians, designers, writers, fine artists, photographers, filmmakers, poets, actors, animators.. whatever the artistic field this program has the potential to change the course of a lifetime. Enough with the starving artist routine.

If you’d love to dive into a more creative career; know an artist who really needs to take the 13 week journey or if you would like to gift an artist with this (go on unleash your inner Medici) call or mail Lisa Maddison for the application (each artist must have a goal & motivation to be realised from the program)

Conceived and developed by Elaine; associated costs taken up by the GSB; some of the business schools finest minds and visiting international lecturers and mentors in each field have offered their time for free : the full course fee goes to strengthening the Observatory Community Centre (incubator to SA legends like Tannie Evita and FreshlyGround). Stuff like this make SA Rock bigtime! It’s an exciting and very valuable endeavour.

I’ve created a blog for news and learning around BA4A and a Facebook event to make it easy for you to join the conversation. Come jump in >>

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DISCLAIMER: I am more than a little biased in presenting the next talented one to you. I believe he stands on merit, but I’ve known Dave for a verrrry long time & we work together (so now you know) proceed forth.. gently >>

“You can never go wrong doing the right thing” is not something one expects to hear as the guiding philosophy of a marketer. Marketing has connotations of being best for the ethically-challenged. Truth and ubuntu have had very little to do with the business-end of marketing – until now.

There is a clear voice coming out of the distortion as business, society and new economies are disrupted by fast.paced technology here in South Africa. Recognised as the foremost authority on social media marketing (neomarketing if you will) by not only UCT’s Graduate School of Business where he lectures; but through agencies like Jupiter Drawing Room – those right on the cutting edge of new tech trend with practical application to the market NOW.

New marketing is a place where radical transparency and authenticity are the rule for those who want strategic advantage. Which is why Dave Duarte (otherwise known as the Marketing Geek) has rocketed into the attention space of those in anxious leadership to provide guidance in turbulent times.

He is young enough to immerse like a digital native into online social networks with gusto. But balances that reality with many business lessons under his belt. And the smarts to form respected strategic alliances with thought leaders across a span of industries and disciplines.

I believe Dave’s genius lies in creating communities & the effortless eventing which spawned South Africa’s first BarCamp with Conrad Strydom; into an alliance with Stormhoek to cultivate SA’s first Geekdinners; and then as a partner in Cerebra into building the wildly popular 27 Dinners. He’s gradually introduced the deepest techies to their previous nemesis: marketers - and forged a strong bond on both sides, with exciting projects born of these gatherings.

He can be found talking about the future of marketing on the move just about everywhere : at conferences, global summits, to MBA classes, in newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, or rocking a dinner for brilliant professors.

All with customary humour and uncluttered concepts for immediate application. Dave’s great fun to be around, as well as being one of those very useful fellows to have on your side when business as you knew it stops making sense.

PS. UCT Business School will be running the Nomadic Marketing course on which Dave serves as course director. Starting on the 17th July (3days of Web2.0/mobile media & marketing) and due to demand have extended applications till the end of this week :
¡sǝɯıʇ ʎʌɹnʇ.ʎsdoʇ ǝsǝɥʇ uı ʎʇuıɐʇɹǝɔ ǝɹoɯ ɹǝɟɟo puɐ buıʇǝʞɹɐɯ ɟo suoıʇdǝɔɹǝd ɹnoʎ dı1ɟ ʎʇ1nɔɐɟ ɹǝʍod ǝɥʇ & ǝʌɐp sɐ ɥɔʇɐʍ ǝɯoɔ

..and if you can read that you certainly are welcome to join us in this groundbreaking program and put your ability to see things differently to practical use. Come see the likes of Prof Jon Foster-Pedley, Mike Stopforth, Vinny Lingham, Emma Kay, Uwe Gutschow, Heather Ford, Eric Edelstein & many more dazzling minds share their insights.

PPS. Dave also offers customised in-house presentations or specialised courses on neomarketing & social media marketing >> it’s easy to connect in with Dave and the Nomadic Marketing faculty – click here.

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I adore entrepreneurs. For the guts it takes to risk your livelihood on a great idea. For the fact that life rewards these brave beings with the fastest, grittiest schooling and gruelling tests to prove commitment. For the fact that entrepreneurs always get in over their heads if the idea is big enough, worthy enough.

The guarantees that come with choosing this path are, being screwed over at some point, emptying your bank accounts at others, and taking an ego hammering from critics and the market.. among other exciting challenges. But those who make it out the other side are ALIVE and interesting and add value to the world and get rewarded accordingly.

In South Africa we have a pitifully small percentage of people with the guts to dare to be an entrepreneur – don’t believe me? check here

Henk Kleynhans is one of those who is rocking the game with style. Not because he hasn’t had his fair share of scary and absurd obstacles, legal, financial, logistical. But he keeps proving that if you play the game with clean hands, have good taste in problems and gather a strong network of mentors and fellow maniacs.. the gods will finally smile broadly on you.

Henk has won numerous awards for his company, Skyrove. It launched in 2005 as the world’s first prepaid wireless hotspot service. And he doesn’t just keep the business all to himself – he enables others who want to run their own businesses to get started easily in this HUGELY promising industry >> Go check out Skyrove’s opportunities for entrepreneurs (a little residual income never hurts)

I’m so excited to watch where Henk is going to go next, especially after the very healthy injection of venture capital from Lingham Capital (good job Vinny!)

Henk is an asset to the tech industry in South Africa, particularly for the young entrepreneurs who need to know how the hell to deal with the challenges that we all undoubtedly face starting our own businesses. Get to know him and link in before he goes stratospheric.

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I met this WebAddiCT on June 16 2006 in a freeeezing old school.hall in the middle of who.knows.where. It was South Africa’s 1st BarCamp organised by Geekspin & the Marketing Geek. I think that BarCamp was critical to the evolution of our little geek/blogging/socialmedia community >> so in some sense this is an anniversary post of that tipping point too.

Dave had been raving about this respected blogger Rafiq Phillips of the legendary Web Addicts was going to be there – the man now also known as trafiq (because if there is one thing that the Web AddiCTs know how to do : it would be driving digital traffic to their site) – SEO with its ever.changing algorithms is their speciality. But oddly enough it’s not the only traffic they’re into. Rafiq and his equally bright business partner Miguel Dos Santos run a business called iDrive. It’s changing the way driving schools work, but has the genius seed other service industries can learn from & use.

The innovative concept behind iDrive has been their ticket to the African Innovator of the Year award, and more recently to TED Global (oh the envy!!). They’ve been working with Mxit and mobile applications for a while now & have no doubt that mobile’s the future of technology best suited to Africa: lightweight, low.cost, massive reach and doesn’t rely to heavily on fixed infrastructure.

Rafiq believes that getting web-enabled mobile phones into the hands of other young Africans will unleash a wave of innovation throughout the continent. [Creativity is always sparked when a new tool is combined with limitations and curious minds]. There’s a really easy way you can help begin that process right now BTW: head here and vote for Rafiq to donate a phone to a Tanzanian student.

He’s passionate about helping to build African tech without a dependence on external aid. About solving our own problems in a fresh & innovative way without cloning. Unlike a lot of our brilliant young tech minds, he has chosen to stay in South Africa:

3:47 PM Rafiq: what makes me stay in za (cape town)?

the ppl
the beauty
my family
za is a 1st world county
compared to rest of africa
we have 3rd world problems
only solutions & business opportunities waiting to happen

Love it!
Go celebrate the brilliant people you know who are using their talents in South Africa, helping to get this place rocking! See you next week with yet another of the geniuses I have the pleasure of sharing with SA Rocks.

*respect to our own Google Summer of Coder Charl van Niekerk who’s also holding his ground here in ZA – thank you guys!

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I met Donna McCallum newly returned from Argentina, enroute to Jozi and ablaze with spark for a new project called Fairy Godmother inc. She had been working with Mignon Lotz-Keyser of Peer Power (hit the Bandwidth Barn & check it out if you’re an entrepreneur in Cape Town – it is power!)

Donna makes her own luck like no other, and she helps others tap into their own daring realms beyond corporate slavery or lack of direction/confidence. The heart of her mission is to help those she works with discover their dreams ..and then helps them translate it into practical reality. Don’t let her fairy dust fool you, she brings in the clarity of hard-nosed applied business strategy learnt from her own business successes here and in San Francisco through the dot-com boom. She’s also the powerhouse manager behind Verity, who graced us at one of the 27dinners.

If there was a quote that I believe she embodies it would be this one be Theodore Roethke:

“What we need are more people who specialise in the impossible“

Donna disregards the notion that to be successful in business one should dress the part & appear serious to be taken seriously. It takes a lot of courage & confidence to move in the other direction, to embody the quirkiness of your character, and rock a pair of wings on the back of a finely tailored business.suit, which she pulls off in style.

Success and international recognition have caught up with her and she jets off to Europe to take her workshops to Germany & London. If you’ve ever longingly ached to do something that you think would be utterly absurd, but afraid that you’ll plunge headlong into destitution if you follow your heart.. I recommend a chat with the Fairy Godmother. The world of work is changing and the kind of inspiration and leadership required for the wild times to come will be those who coax us out of the Calvinist work ethic, from tired old Industrial Age hangovers. Donna has exactly the right mix of expertise and fearless character to inspire SA entrepreneurs into action.

She’s also an alarmingly potent networker. She’s just joined us in the blogosphere and on Facebook so get in contact.. and if you’re in London, pop into her workshop & connect with this force for good while you can.

Addendum: just dashed down to St George’s Mall to support the Fairy Godmother in launching the Free Hugs Project in South Africa. Should be hitting Jozi soon.. watch the Facebook group for updates. Oh and watch the clip if you haven’t seen it before, there’s a reason why this thing went viral. Respect for bringing it home Donna!

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