• Johan Taft

    “I help bright individuals and leaders in business, competitive sports and show business overcome obstacles in performance, reduce fear, gain peace and certainty and generate extraordinary results putting the sparkle back in their eyes!”

Authenticity, our pathway to greatness

Being authentic is not something people talk about a lot. Maybe because it is a quality not much appreciated and not much sought after in our money oriented, materially emphasised, image and fame driven culture. Politicians have become spin masters, entertainers have become fame seekers, sportsmen have become  idols.
How much authenticity are our role models [...]

Quote

A quote that recently caught my eye and amused me:
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books.”
– A. S. Byatt (post-modern novelist and poet)

Autocratic or democratic?

Often I get asked which management / leadership style is best? Autocratic or democratic?
I was first challenged with this question by my training manager Yvonne Reynolds when I was 19 years old, a rookie in management training school with Taco Time Intl., a chain of Mexican style fast food restaurants based in the Pacific North [...]

Real currency

“The real currency is energy”
(My esteemed teacher Mr Luong Vi Kien)