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Imagine your organization has a unique opportunity. If you move fast, you can enter a new market before your competitors even knows it exists. You’re in a meeting exploring this challenge when a question is raised: “Should we focus more on centralizing or decentralizing to gain a foothold in this new market?”

On my recent trip to the NexusAfrica conference in Johannesburg, I found my first intriguing lesson in the time spent with my host family.  I was welcomed into the home of Ivan and Yolande Overton, founders of ChangeWright Consulting, and their three-year-old son Mathew. 

 I was struck by how comfortable they made me feel – nearly like family.  They invited me to make myself at home which included foraging for late night snacks, taking a nap in the middle of their living room and playing with Matthew and his minitiature cars like I was actually the Uncle he called me (or at least  that’s what he said in Afrikaans I was told by his parents).

“Write for five minutes about yourself.”

That was all.  They were the only instructions we were given.  

Then we sat together in small groups and read to each other what we had written.  I sat with the faculty members who were part of this Catholic healthcare system.  They called the five minutes of writing and subsequent sharing a reflection assignment.

I was on my way this past Sunday morning to pick up my weekly batch of donuts.  Later in the day I made sure I stopped at the store on my way home from an In ‘n Out burger to get my potato chips and pint of ice cream.  Call it my Sunday ritual.

It’s part of how I stay fit and trim.  In the past few months by eating all that garbage I’ve lost three belt loops on my pants (that’s about 4 ½ inches)