Dr. Albert Viljoen distills leadership into three core elements and considers the unique styles and qualities that constitute “good” leadership.

From a combination of firsthand experience and the latest research, we’ve developed a five pillar approach to developing leaders of the future.

A chap by the name of Paul Graham wrote an article in 2009 that people still talk about today. Paul’s the founder of startup accelerator fund Y Combinator and the article’s called Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule. It’s a short piece of thought leadership on time management. Essentially there are two types of working schedule. There’s...

Aged 20 I sat in a room filled with entrepreneurs and introduced myself. I was surrounded by other founders older than me and more experienced than me. Two had worked at Facebook and Google. Others had started businesses before. Most had families with kids. I was 20 and still learning how to cook and clean...

Leadership can be hard.  Leading people, teams, or projects can bring up a lot of different emotions.  Management is complex and intricate. Two humans coming together for a 1-2-1, one with a little more power than the other, perhaps scared they’ll say something ‘wrong’. The other wondering “what do I feel safe saying here?” I’ve...

It would seem to go without saying that communication is a two-way street. What this means is, it’s important employees are bought into, and have a chance to feedback on, the vision and mission being communicated from the top.  If there is a mismatch here, with leaders taking an unsupported route, or a route they...

A survey of businesses spanning multiple industries across five countries including the UK, US, and Singapore, found that while many reported having the right people, these people were not always in the right places – particularly when it comes to managers.  Promoting people for length of tenure within a business is the norm. But this...

I want to share my personal story of where mental health in the workplace can go wrong. It’s the reason I’m so passionate about mental health, specifically at work.  I’ll also highlight where I think things went wrong, and what could have been done differently.  Some were definitely larger cultural issues, but there were definitely smaller things...