The sudden passing of Gugu Zulu highlights one thing that stands out from his life. He cared enough to do work that matters. He is one celebrity who used his position to care for others, not flaunt his success. What do you care enough to fix, or disrupt, or invent? Starting right here, right now.…
The ending of a significant piece of one's life, a job, a stage of life, a relationship or a way of thinking may be difficult and even painful. Something that you once counted on as very important to your life is over and done. Entrepreneurs make mistakes, wrong decisions, or judgement errors. Finding closure from…
LORA Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship strives to bring thought leaders, men and women who are pathfinders, entrepreneurs and change agents, men and women who have affected the very fibre of our thought processes, who influence our set of beliefs, and engage our mindsets in elements of value. LORA has invited 10 experienced entrepreneurs to share their…
Whether you are starting a new business, or just trying something new in your workplace, having critics is not necessarily a bad thing. Upsetting the status quo is likely to ruffle a few feathers. If your new business plan disrupts an industry or makes a lot of people angry, there is a good chance you…
Last April Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Love and Pray and her new book Big Magic wrote an epic Facebook post about tribal shame. Liz Gilbert’s post is so worth the read, but the short version is this: “…if you dare to leave your tribe of origin, or if you dare to question the rules…
One way the community responds to a courageous act, an act of standing out and doing something different is by trying to shame the courageous one. Instead of rewarding you for caring enough to try, they work to silence you by creating shame. Shame is the soul killer, the enemy of those who would have…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8y0WLm78U In her TED talk, Monica Lewinsky talks about a mistake she made when she was 22 years of falling in love with her boss, it just happened that her boss was POTUS. She was shamed, called names, ridiculed. No one reading this article will want to claim that they have never made a mistake…
For a very long time, shame has been used as a tool to cast out people who don't conform to the norm. How shameful does she do that, she has no shame doing that, what a shame, shame on you, shame, she deserve that walk of shame she is on.... Shame has long been used…
I'm not sure if it was ever possible to say: "everyone loves ___," "everyone respects ___" or even, "everyone really doesn't like ___", but there is no doubt at all that this is not true any more. There is no product for everyone, there is no product that everyone will love or everyone will hate.…
The heart and soul of doing great work, of doing work that matters is to be vulnerable. When you are vulnerable people connect more to whatever it is that you are doing. Opening up and saying please help me is not an easy thing because it exposes you to be vulnerable and you might be rejected.…
LORA Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship strives to bring thought leaders, men and women who are pathfinders, entrepreneurs and change agents, men and women who have affected the very fibre of our thought processes, who influence our set of beliefs, and engage our mindsets in elements of value. LORA has invited 10 experienced entrepreneurs to share their…
I get to meet entrepreneurs who have tried multiple ideas within a short space of time, limping from one idea to another, sometimes because those ideas don't work but I think most of the time because they are impatient to invest more time to nurture and see those ideas grow. Farming is not an attractive…
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