The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]
Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways. Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They�re actively sabotaging their own […]
Does A Politician’s Eyes Look At Women?
Bangkok, Thailand – Throughout the ages, the process of birthing has always been a cause of intrigue and celebration among human beings. But for <a href="http://www.stevechadwick.co.nz">Steve Chadwick</a>, an MP in New Zealand’s Labour-led government and former midwife, there’s nothing that mirrors politics as much as the process of giving birth. Chadwick bemoaned the growing risk of […]
Fortune Cookies, and the Like
Except she wasn’t like That at all. She just wasn’t. She was so many things other than That, so many other things that she knew, she knew knew knew, if other people knew they would think about her, and things, more than once. Upon knowing, they would shake some sort of previous image, that prior opinion, out of […]
A nose for a good story?
I was told a story once in Prague about WWII. I am not sure if it is true. Reinhard Heydrich was a loyal Nazi and loved the music of Richard Wagner. On 27th September 1941, Heydrich was appointed acting Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. He commandeered as his headquarters the Rudolphinium, Prague’s centre of […]
When Did This Place Become “Nutless Corners”?
Today at the Columbus Circle stop waiting for the 1 train I witnessed for perhaps the 6th time in 2 months a phenomena that makes me want to vomit uncontrollably and biblically rip my clothes off of my body in utter frustration and rage. I witnessed another late twenty-early thirtysomething or maybe even fortywhogivesacrap plug […]