2025 Year End Message
Year-End Message What a wild and wonderful year this has been!At times it felt as if I was riding a wild horse, uncontrollable speed… It was a year of grief, sadness, despair, but also of hope, celebration, and gifts. AI, Trump, war, sport, death of loved ones, birth of babies, ideas… A year of mixed […]
Exhaling
Exhaling Written by Hanrie Fridjhon, February 7th, 2025 Running helped me survive as an entrepreneur. I started running when I was nineteen. My dad used to host a Spier Plesier once a year. We would run 16 km from the Spier (a wine farm outside Stellenbosch). My father’s charm enabled us to use the wine […]
Books that I enjoyed in 2024
Books that I enjoyed in 2024 Written by Hanrie Fridjhon, 28 November 2024 1. Finding Endurance – Darrel Bristow-Bovey This book won my vote for Leadership book of the year. Strictly speaking, it’s more of an adventure saga – an epic voyage of the Endurance to Antarctic. The comparison of leadership styles between Shackleton and […]
Does your body language access your inner Biden or Trump?
Analysing body language during the Presidential debate The recent debate between Biden and Trump provoked arguments on all levels. My interest, apart from the obvious content, is analysing the body language of both candidates. The debate enforced my research and beliefs that body language maketh the man – or in this case ‘un maketh the […]
Technical or Adaptive Change – What is needed for the way of work?
If you keep your current habits – in five years’ time, will your life be better or worse? Tweet In “Immunity to Change” by Kegan and Lahey, a study was done with heart patients. Even after they were told they may die if they don’t change their lifestyles, only one out of seven made changes. […]