Managing for Profit

The game we all love mirrors many of the challenges facing any organisation.

Forget about government’s land reform mess. Build your business and help small-scale farmers yourself.

The transfer of ownership is seen as the miracle initiator of entrepreneurship and motivation. It’s not. There are better ways.

Here is my list of the worst boss behaviour I have experienced. Let these people loose in your business and they will quickly kill motivation.

Being a mentor is a much more challenging job than teaching or coaching.

To help new farmers succeed, mentorship is crucial. But mentoring itself is a skill that must be learned.

We all have mentors and are mentors to others, but formal mentorship is a different matter altogether. If not managed professionally, it is sure to fail.

Total and unquestioning trust between people empowers them to move mountains.

Peru has abandoned its self-destructive policies and the results speak for themselves. Could we be next?

Beware of ‘selective perception’, or seeing things only as you would like to see them.

We live in one of the most unequal societies in the world. It should cause us disquiet, and lead to action.

Gaining perspective allows you to make the right decisions. Without perspective, you're just guessing.