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Originally circulated on 6 November 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 223 of lock down – now level  1. I am sure most of you have heard the expression, “Drinking the Kool Aid”. This phrase is an established piece of business jargon and in fact in 2012Continue reading “Ruminations on Drinking the Kool Aid”

Originally circulated on 13 November 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 230 of lock down – now level  1. All of us on this list are corporate drones. Some of us, like me, are (ageing) lance corporals and some of you are privates and lieutenants with perhapsContinue reading “Ruminations on Investment Arithmetic, John Bogle the Gotrocks and Looking After Your Own Investments”

Originally circulated on 20 November 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 237 of lock down – now level  1. Some of you may be wondering how strategy works and how decisions are made. This is a recurring Ruminant Pink Friday ™ theme. The short answer – ItsContinue reading “Ruminations on Obscurantism and the Dark Side of the Loon”

Originally circulated on 22 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 56 of lock down. Over the past week I have received no worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™. As I try to digest the flood of ludicrously wrong information we all see on Covid-19 and,Continue reading “Ruminations on how wrong you can be. The Relativity of Wrong – Not Even Wrong and Wronger than Wrong”

Originally circulated on 18 December 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 265 of lock down – now level  1. An  appropriate theme for Ruminant Pink Friday ™ are the various tools we all use to avoid facing reality. Reality can sometimes be an unpleasant place and soContinue reading “Ruminations on Willful Blindness, Nelsonian Knowledge, Organic Untruth and Disinformation”

Originally circulated on 8 January 2021 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Modified Lock Down Level 3. Best wishes for a better 2021. Aweh from  day 286 of lock down – now modified level  3. First news of the year is that I have the Pox. I have just received the result that I haveContinue reading “Ruminations on Disruptive Change, Innovation, the Implosion of Nokia and Company Culture”

Originally circulated on 21 January 2021 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Modified Lock Down Level 3. Aweh from  day 293 of lock down. Firstly a Covid update. It has been rampant in our family which gathered for the Christmas holidays. I am recovered from my bout with Covid as are my two sons andContinue reading “Ruminations on Polemics, Covid 19 and anti vaxxers”

Originally circulated on 27 March 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down I have decided to continue with  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ through the lock down. The topic today is people who have pushed you in your education and development. I don’t mean people who have gently guided you, taught you and advisedContinue reading “Ruminations on mastery and being pushed.”

Originally circulated on 15 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 49 of lock down. Over the past week I have received no worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ although there are topicson the parking list. An article writtenby a non-Sasol friend, Ivor Sarikinsky, introduced meContinue reading “Ruminations on heresthetics and what it takes to get what you want.”

Originally circulated on 5 February 2021 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 314 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 3 now with alcohol. Firstly I would like to pick up on the theme from last week regarding the need for me to develop a post retirement code of conduct after I will no longer beContinue reading “Ruminations on the way we roll and roll models”