Deceit is not cool. Deceit breaks trust, and trust is astonishingly hard to rebuild once broken. And this is where leadership becomes incredibly difficult.

In the complexity of the South African political and business landscape, there has been a spate of recent revelations on the assumed ‘intellectual’ background of prominent leaders.

Visionary, team builder, mentor, he shows us some timeless leadership lessons but also some glaring failures.

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While good leaders can't make much of a difference in societies with strong institutions, in countries with weak structures, leaders could make or break a country.

To gain a better understanding of your leadership strengths and weaknesses, take a look at yourself through the eyes of others.

How can people who have been so successful in their careers not be courageous about communicating the problems they see in a business for which they are responsible?

The rand dipped when Gill Marcus announced last month that she was retiring as governor of the Reserve Bank. But it ticked upwards recently on news that one of her able deputies, Lesetja Kganyago, is to replace her.

If Shakespeare were a CEO coach, he would clearly encourage his clients to analyse and discern his situation like Hamlet does at first, but then he would insist they act decisively.

The goal is to figure out how to live a life in servant mode, to create an organisation that doesn't become a bureaucratic haven or an avarice-focused engine of profit.