by Marc Rogatschnig | Dec 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
As 2020 was peaking over the horizon with sun-like hope, I asked my colleagues to share their reflections of 2019 and their hopes for 2020. Of course this year has been unprecedented, but re-reading these 11 months later has made me think that maybe 2020 wasn’t as...
by Marc Rogatschnig | Nov 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Writing is my form of therapy. It’s not a chore, nor a requirement. In most cases I write with no audience or desired recipient of a message in mind. I suppose I could keep it all to myself (and I often do) but knowing that a reflection, muse or rant may be read by an...
by Marc Rogatschnig | Oct 26, 2020 | Character, Psychology
The sky had draped a grey cloud over False Bay, Cape Town, and ash-green lines of marbled swell pulsed towards the shore. Standing on the beach, I imagined guiding my fibreglass board across the soft water, and was itching to get into the sea. The soft hue of dusk...
by Marc Rogatschnig | Aug 11, 2020 | Character, Leadership
As the Covid-19 pandemic spun out of control, and a hurricane of germs blew across the globe, I watched a news clip of an Italian street artist musing on the state of his village. When asked how he was coping with his ghostly streets, he simply replied: ‘If I worry...
by Marc Rogatschnig | Jul 29, 2020 | Character, General, Organisational Change
By Steve Hall Let me tell you a story about Christian Cooper and Amy Cooper. They are not “The Coopers”, in fact they are unrelated in a host of different ways, but they share a surname and a recent incident in Central Park, New York. Christian is out bird watching....
