Blessing Mpofu | life and leadership heretic

Start | How To Raise More Leaders

Blessing Mpofu — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:54:59 +0000

Every leader must aspire to lead well. No. Actually, every leader must lead well. The use of “aspiring” has been reason for too many leaders putting into the future what they should be practicing now. It’s fairly common talk that great leaders make more leaders and not followers. It is not leadership when it doesn’t produce leaders. [...]

Ah… The Little Things

Blessing Mpofu — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:09:39 +0000

This is one of those posts that just remind us. Uhm… remind us of how human we can be. That sounds a little odd. Let’s try again. This is one of those posts that remind us how human we are. So, I had a brain fart. You know, those moments your attention and logic lapses. [...]

The Mine Of Being Undermined

Blessing Mpofu — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:10:37 +0000

As I’ve said before, “The truth is we all want people to think of us as more capable than we really are”. It can be gravely damaging to let people hold on to such perceptions, especially to the extent to which we get entrusted with something on the premise that we are perfectly capable. Honesty [...]

The Grading Tango | Honest

Blessing Mpofu — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:02:58 +0000

Everyone will have a perception about your abilities. Sometimes they’re unfounded. Some are accurate… you know the rest… We have an idea of our capabilities and we’d like those around us to be as accurate as possible in their asses them. The truth is sometimes we really want people to see our capabilities as higher [...]

Structure | Why You Must Love Obscurity

Blessing Mpofu — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:52:23 +0000

An earlier post I did on loving obscurity, focused on obscurity as a place to get better. Check out “Wine | Why You Must Love Obscurity” here Not taking advantage of your season of obscurity in pursuing dreams or vision robs you of greater opportunities when the break you hope for comes. Obscurity can be [...]