CEO's Blog
September 2022
What about the boys?
Our friends at Primestars, a company that specialises in facilitating youth development programmes, have led notable communit… Read More
December 2021
Letting the genie of digitalisation out the bottle
In the fullness of time, we will likely look back to 2020 and 2021 as two watershed years for corporate digital habits across… Read More
November 2021
Parkinson’s Law and what it teaches us about time and money (Part 2)
It is not only in time management and productivity that Parkinson’s Law has applications. It can be generalised to many aspec… Read More
November 2021
Parkinson’s Law and what it teaches us about time and money (Part 1)
I was wandering around in Berlin in 2019 when I stumbled upon a little book in a tiny second-hand corner-bookshop in Bergmans… Read More
October 2021
Age – the last bastion of discrimination?
A few years ago, I did that silly race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban called the Comrades Marathon. I licked my wounds f… Read More
October 2021
Simplicity and essentialism – the pursuit of less in a world of more
Years ago, there was this young man who studied law in England. From a wealthy family and with good professional prospects, t… Read More
September 2021
The PPS Value of doing the right thing
One of our three values at PPS is to strive to always do the right thing. I often tell staff that, if you are ever in a situa… Read More
August 2021
The PPS Value of taking extreme ownership
One of our three values at PPS is taking extreme ownership. This supports a culture of accountability, of focusing on the res… Read More
June 2021
The PPS Value of always staying curious
One of our three values at PPS is being curious. This supports a learning culture, an innovative spirit, a licence to questio… Read More
June 2021
May 2021
Facts and Factfulness
Some time ago, a business acquaintance gave me the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling, which I know some of you have read. It d… Read More
March 2021
The future of the world of work
How will the future world of work look like? This is a question I asked myself almost a year ago. With no end in sight of the… Read More