On 15 February 2010, I spoke to Karabo Kgoleng on SAfm about change in the workplace - how to live it and how to lead it. You can download or listen to the twenty minute interview here. It's a 6mb mp3 file.

It's Friday afternoon. I've just arrived home from a three day conference that I presented and facilitated. The informal evening events were often even more insightful and productive than the days, which could not have been fuller.

From watching the forty business leaders from around the country present themselves, share their experience, and build relationships, I posted on my Facebook profile that: Giving leaders room to realise their uniqueness makes for a thriving business.

My client is progressive. The corporate leaders are awake, responsive, spirited. The regional unit heads are entrepreneurial, generous and gifted. I was enriched. I grew. I, like the delegates, was given the room to flourish.

It was a risk, I did new stuff. I worked with the process to demonstrate the skills I was sharing: It wasn't content delivered in one direction, it was alive, organic. The group was intelligence in action.

Each leader is an entrepreneur. His or her uniqueness is encouraged. She has a business structure to work with, a vehicle, a tool, an economic engine. He has to be the heart and soul of it, and use his head. She needs to bring who she is to what she does and foster this in everyone.

Each leader is an entrepreneur and each leader is technician, a general manager. Fundamental business skill is essential. The basics apply more than ever. But there's more.

Each leader is a marketer and networker. Every leader is unique and respectful of uniqueness.  Every leader is living proof.

All of this coming together is teamwork.