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Nation needs to be ready to let Mandela go

Nation needs to be ready to let Mandela go

A good, peaceful death is as important as a good life and it requires the will of the living to let go.

Leading performance

Leading performance

Good team managers don’t have to put in extra time correcting the team’s mistakes or covering up for members’ shortcomings.

Working with words

I don’t like it when people I care for are hurt by careless words. I’m alarmed by what I hear about the poor quality of difficult conversations.

Know your brain power

Maelstrom is the word that comes to mind when some of my clients describe their busy lives, writes <b>Helena Dolny</b>.

Perfect failures, real successes

Mistakes should be seen as opportunities for learning, not for apportioning blame.

Be the person you’d like to be

How long is the rest of anyone’s life? We can’t know. Death is our only certainty but its timing is uncertain.

Teaching old dogs new tricks

Combining mindfulness training with cognitive behavioural therapy to come up with a regime for treating OCD.

Mind over mass delusion

Mind over mass delusion

A book about the dangers of positive thinking may be throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Cowboys and coaches

It’s an unregulated profession, so when choosing a coach, make sure he or she has the right training.

From the horse’s mouth

From the horse’s mouth

Learning to take up the reins of leadership with confidence can be a unique experience.

Test your 2010 resolutions

Does the outcome fit with your sense of who you really are and how you want to shape your life going forward?

It’s time to shape your life

So where were you at the beginning of the millennium and now, 10 years later, what’s happened?

Walking a tightrope of tastes

End-of-year parties are not casual affairs, writes Helena Dolny.

What animal are you?

Transformation should not only be about race and gender but should encompass each person’s essential self.