I am here today to make an appeal to you
I’m here today to make a heartfelt a
beauty it’s not even for me it’s an
appeal for a friend of mine and you see
this is the only reason I accepted to be
standing here today and talking to you
it’s because my friend is not doing well
and I believe I know that you know my
friend if you don’t know my friend right
now I’m convinced you will meet my
friend and in fact at the end of my talk
I’m going to introduce you to my friend
if you don’t know you see my friend is
distressed
my friend is confused my friend is very
very having a turmoil in his brain lots
of questions what if this what if that
and it is going on and on and on in his
life and at this particular point in
time the only state I can define my
friend is in he’s in a state of
confusion and because he’s my friend I’m
very worried for my friend you would
have eaten because I’m worried not only
for him I’m worried for his loved ones
I’m worried for all those that he
interact with directly or indirectly and
this is why I’m going to introduce to
you my friend and then give you the
message that I want you to carry my
friend so let me introduce you to my
friend you see my friend is called we
okay so let’s just imagine that’s my
friend
he’s called we and back any one of us
it’s got a heart he’s got a brain he’s
got nerves he’s got arteries you just
don’t see his picture there and my
friend has been brought up in an
environment
where for him family life is crucial the
values are the driving force of any
thought and any behavior
so he’s whole life for my friend we is
based on those strong pillars his values
and even when he works what he works
based on those values he has been taught
respect well he will deal with people in
a respectful way he’s been taught that
you need to trust people while he will
deal with people in that way and that’s
how he is at work when he plays he plays
from his heart he loves he has fun he
loves it and he enjoys the moment that
he’s having and he plays with the kids
he plays football he plays tennis he
plays badminton he plays dominoes you
name it he plays it so he has fun in
having this interaction and using who he
is and the values that he has within
himself to connect and depict that in
his behavior and the reason why I am
worried for my friend we is because we
is now being challenged and the
challenge that we is facing is that the
digital age is now disrupting the way my
friend we works plays communicates and
even think he is now in an environment
in a working environment where he just
cannot understand how people who are
just a few desks away from him
will write him a mail which might even
take them longer than crossing those few
meters and coming to see him I think hi
there you know quick chat about this he
just doesn’t understand that and my
friend we on the other hand because we
are in a global village he is told you
know what even if your custom
is sitting in New York in Singapore in
Australia you need to understand your
customer and you know a VC meeting you
need to have that so now we is asking
himself hang on there that guy’s sitting
just across there I might not even see
him for the whole day he says good
morning to me by mail yet on the other
hand those who are far away from me
mm-hmm I’ve got to see them now when it
comes to plane just imagine we is no
longer playing with people he’s now
playing with devices and you know any
game that he wants he can play with that
the only issue is you cannot have
interaction hacking feelings come across
I’ve got a son he plays ps4 anyplace for
people across the globe which is
fantastic but the problem is who is that
person he’s playing with what is the
background of that person what are the
values of that person now you see my
friend we just doesn’t get this at this
point and the other one is the way that
he communicates you see recently my
friend we spent weeks on a report and I
bet you a lot of you sitting here will
relate to them see he spent weeks on
that report submits the report to his
line manager and he gets a mail the next
day saying not bad so my friend is
sitting there and thinking hmm what does
that not bad me does it mean not bad or
does it mean not bad so my friend
because he’s somebody that you know he
talks to people and he needs to get this
feeling of what’s happening so he goes
off and talks to the line manager and
thank God for him it was more of a not
bad than the not bad and now just
imagine if he hadn’t
that we all most of us work in this
crowd here just vision that visualize
that in your working environment
conflict misunderstanding relationships
of trust broken and I’ll let you guess
the rest now my friend we is thinking
day and night how is this working
what is this contradiction here that is
happening and we know like we just heard
there are some professions that will not
exist 10 years down the line kuba is
going to be self driven taxis that’s
what it’s going to be so people are
going to be away so what’s happening now
is I hate to do that but I’ve got to now
what’s happening is I have come up with
a winning formula and this is going to
be the winning formula but I would want
you to go away with for my friend when
you will see and the winning formula is
I love acid now it’s not about throwing
acid on your line manager I love I said
it’s just for you to remember those
words that I’m going to be sharing with
you so that you can share it with my
friend the very first one is inter
personal skills
you see even in the digital age nothing
replaces the face-to-face relationship
and connection that we can have with
people never otherwise our life partner
would be a robot god forbid right and I
mean just imagine we would be working
with with devices doesn’t work and this
reminds me of I had a friend he used to
call me for my birthday he could have
sent me an emoji and his emoji doesn’t
match my emoji okay right but he called
me and as soon as I pick up the phone he
would be happy birthday to you happy
birthday to you
now tell me how in the digital age
this wonderful sound of hearing
somebody’s voice saying happy birthday
to you can be replaced by an emoji I
don’t want you to answer the second one
is the heart please take your right hand
please do that for me take your right
hand put it on your heart it’s there
isn’t it
yeah okay sure it’s they otherwise you
wouldn’t be sitting here ah see we all
have the heart now learn to talk to our
heart this connects with this and then
it gets us to do things if I’m not doing
things from here my brain is confused
I’m feeling something my brain is
telling me to do something but
physically I’m doing something else now
can you imagine why my friend was
confused because instead of following
his heart he is following what he’s
seeing around somebody said to me
recently but we mean how do you
translate love from a personal life into
a professional environment so we had
this wonderful discussion that love
cannot exist in a professional
environment well I’ve got news for you
if love in the personal life is written
l.o.v.e in the professional life it’s
written comm ITM ENT that’s what it is
it’s just the same thing it’s just
written differently and some people you
know what time we talked about this in
the professional environment and we
talked about passion engagement but
that’s what it is and we are passionate
about what we do when we are passionate
about what we do just watch the result
I’m lucky enough I am doing I’m working
and I’m doing something for people that
I just love doing I cannot imagine doing
anything else in my whole life I’ve been
doing this for the last 17 years and
what it is is I love impacting people’s
lives and that’s what I do for a living
if I didn’t
believe in my ability to do it and that
this is the place for me I would quit so
listen to our heart I was watching Oprah
Winfrey recently and she said the same
thing and she has the same advice so it
is not new whether we are in the digital
age or not our heart is still there it
will be there for the next 15 years if
we are alive and so follow the heart
follow your heart please tell my friend
that the other one is the a starting for
the asset adaptability um I hate to say
this but I started work when the huge
mobile phone just came on board so I’ve
been working for a long long number of
years and yes I started when I was 10
that’s another story but it is just to
say that all the way I have I’ve had to
adapt myself to the environment that is
not to say to forget Who I am and I hate
to use this analogy but that’s the best
one I can think of is like the chameleon
I’m so scared of them so why you am I
using that as an allergy but that’s
another story again you see a chameleon
is they will change the color depending
on the situation but the chameleon will
stick with the chameleon it will never
become a lion an elephant – whatever it
is so that’s adaptability and that calls
for rethinking which is good the only
problem that my friend we is having
there is an overthinking going on and
I’m going to illustrate that when I get
to the point DVD the next one is
communication well you see I just told
you the story with my friend about the
not bad and the not bad now we all hear
we listen to music and we’ve got all
sorts of music that we listen to some of
us we might prefer Sega some of us we
might prefer the you know rapper or a
rock and roll or whatever it is but it’s
still music
now just imagine instead of listening to
that music
putting your earphone and listening
wonderfully to that music somebody will
say was was to say to you here is the
script listen to the music just as well
and that’s communication is because we
need to hear the intonation the passion
that is coming out what are the feelings
that are coming across in what the
person is saying to me and excuse me it
doesn’t come across in a male because I
read what I want to read you will read
what you want to me but when we are face
to face over and above hearing what
you’re saying I am hearing the emotions
that come to that’s communication and
that’s true communication based on the
values that we have then the other one
is the I in the asset that’s initiatives
somebody said very writing growth only
happens outside our comfort zone if we
do not take initiative to step out of
the comfort zone came to be stopped
we’re going to be so upset with
ourselves we’re going to have all these
questions what if what if what if what
if going on in our mind take the
initiatives and love this quote and I
make that a motive for myself is the one
who risk nothing gets nothing and I’ve
added one to it is you die nothing we
did not come here to die nothing we all
have a purpose in life and by taking the
initiative we get to our purpose we can
call it dream we can call it vision we
can call it whatever but it’s our
purpose in life and by taking
initiatives we do that you’ve taken an
initiative to come here this morning
the last one the D is the diversity I am
lucky enough to interact with the
various generations in the working
environment locally as well as
regionally and in Africa and I’ll tell
you what it’s the same you know what is
the same we are let’s say we are from a
generation exponent
and we come across and we meet people
from the other generations and we start
saying why don’t they understand that
they should be doing that they don’t do
that they shouldn’t do that and we are
stressing ourselves for nothing I was
running a workshop recently and we had
somebody who was a millennial and we had
somebody who was a Gen X and the Gen X
interpreted the fact that a millennial
asks question as a disrespect to the
elders and the person who was a milliner
was shocked and because they had this
conversation sharing and the they both
then realized it’s about embracing the
diversity that we have around us it’s
not about saying you should be like me
you should be like that
no it’s about embracing the diversity
and diversity in this digital age is
magnificent it’s beautiful we’ve got it
everywhere so in fact it’s being given
to us on a plateau but you know what the
unfortunate thing is for my friend we my
friend we is not seizing them my friend
we is stuck in a little zone and
whatever is going around him he’s seeing
that as you know what you need to come
my way you need to come and instead of
asking himself those questions about how
can I interact differently how can I use
my passion to connect with that person
how can I adapt to that situation how
can I communicate differently how can I
think of the initiative to step out of
this and how can I embrace the diverse
and that’s all it boils down to and
before I introduce you to my friend I
want to tell you that everything that
I’ve been telling you up there that I
love asset is something that I
personally can fight for I’ve been in
the working environment for 25 years and
I’ve worked in Europe in Africa and in
Mauritius and I can tell you I’ve
had to harshly work on myself to adapt
to the environment to adapt to
everything that is going around used my
interpersonal skills and my passion and
I know a lot there are a few people
sitting in this room whom I work with
and I want to thank you for that
but what I want to say and they will
vouch for that is I can never work with
somebody if I haven’t developed a
relationship with a person because I can
only work with somebody if I trust that
person now come on tell me
Trust is a value that doesn’t exist in
the digital age it exists it has already
always existed and it will always exist
so before I end I’m going to introduce
you to my friend I know you were told
not to put your phone on to switch your
phone off but knowing how that
instruction normally gets followed I
know all your phones are either on
silence not even on airplane mode right
so can I ask you to please get your
phone out and if I can read
– please once you’ve got your phone
please go onto your camera and reverse
it and the person that you see there is
my friend we thank you very much
I’m here today to make a heartfelt a
beauty it’s not even for me it’s an
appeal for a friend of mine and you see
this is the only reason I accepted to be
standing here today and talking to you
it’s because my friend is not doing well
and I believe I know that you know my
friend if you don’t know my friend right
now I’m convinced you will meet my
friend and in fact at the end of my talk
I’m going to introduce you to my friend
if you don’t know you see my friend is
distressed
my friend is confused my friend is very
very having a turmoil in his brain lots
of questions what if this what if that
and it is going on and on and on in his
life and at this particular point in
time the only state I can define my
friend is in he’s in a state of
confusion and because he’s my friend I’m
very worried for my friend you would
have eaten because I’m worried not only
for him I’m worried for his loved ones
I’m worried for all those that he
interact with directly or indirectly and
this is why I’m going to introduce to
you my friend and then give you the
message that I want you to carry my
friend so let me introduce you to my
friend you see my friend is called we
okay so let’s just imagine that’s my
friend
he’s called we and back any one of us
it’s got a heart he’s got a brain he’s
got nerves he’s got arteries you just
don’t see his picture there and my
friend has been brought up in an
environment
where for him family life is crucial the
values are the driving force of any
thought and any behavior
so he’s whole life for my friend we is
based on those strong pillars his values
and even when he works what he works
based on those values he has been taught
respect well he will deal with people in
a respectful way he’s been taught that
you need to trust people while he will
deal with people in that way and that’s
how he is at work when he plays he plays
from his heart he loves he has fun he
loves it and he enjoys the moment that
he’s having and he plays with the kids
he plays football he plays tennis he
plays badminton he plays dominoes you
name it he plays it so he has fun in
having this interaction and using who he
is and the values that he has within
himself to connect and depict that in
his behavior and the reason why I am
worried for my friend we is because we
is now being challenged and the
challenge that we is facing is that the
digital age is now disrupting the way my
friend we works plays communicates and
even think he is now in an environment
in a working environment where he just
cannot understand how people who are
just a few desks away from him
will write him a mail which might even
take them longer than crossing those few
meters and coming to see him I think hi
there you know quick chat about this he
just doesn’t understand that and my
friend we on the other hand because we
are in a global village he is told you
know what even if your custom
is sitting in New York in Singapore in
Australia you need to understand your
customer and you know a VC meeting you
need to have that so now we is asking
himself hang on there that guy’s sitting
just across there I might not even see
him for the whole day he says good
morning to me by mail yet on the other
hand those who are far away from me
mm-hmm I’ve got to see them now when it
comes to plane just imagine we is no
longer playing with people he’s now
playing with devices and you know any
game that he wants he can play with that
the only issue is you cannot have
interaction hacking feelings come across
I’ve got a son he plays ps4 anyplace for
people across the globe which is
fantastic but the problem is who is that
person he’s playing with what is the
background of that person what are the
values of that person now you see my
friend we just doesn’t get this at this
point and the other one is the way that
he communicates you see recently my
friend we spent weeks on a report and I
bet you a lot of you sitting here will
relate to them see he spent weeks on
that report submits the report to his
line manager and he gets a mail the next
day saying not bad so my friend is
sitting there and thinking hmm what does
that not bad me does it mean not bad or
does it mean not bad so my friend
because he’s somebody that you know he
talks to people and he needs to get this
feeling of what’s happening so he goes
off and talks to the line manager and
thank God for him it was more of a not
bad than the not bad and now just
imagine if he hadn’t
that we all most of us work in this
crowd here just vision that visualize
that in your working environment
conflict misunderstanding relationships
of trust broken and I’ll let you guess
the rest now my friend we is thinking
day and night how is this working
what is this contradiction here that is
happening and we know like we just heard
there are some professions that will not
exist 10 years down the line kuba is
going to be self driven taxis that’s
what it’s going to be so people are
going to be away so what’s happening now
is I hate to do that but I’ve got to now
what’s happening is I have come up with
a winning formula and this is going to
be the winning formula but I would want
you to go away with for my friend when
you will see and the winning formula is
I love acid now it’s not about throwing
acid on your line manager I love I said
it’s just for you to remember those
words that I’m going to be sharing with
you so that you can share it with my
friend the very first one is inter
personal skills
you see even in the digital age nothing
replaces the face-to-face relationship
and connection that we can have with
people never otherwise our life partner
would be a robot god forbid right and I
mean just imagine we would be working
with with devices doesn’t work and this
reminds me of I had a friend he used to
call me for my birthday he could have
sent me an emoji and his emoji doesn’t
match my emoji okay right but he called
me and as soon as I pick up the phone he
would be happy birthday to you happy
birthday to you
now tell me how in the digital age
this wonderful sound of hearing
somebody’s voice saying happy birthday
to you can be replaced by an emoji I
don’t want you to answer the second one
is the heart please take your right hand
please do that for me take your right
hand put it on your heart it’s there
isn’t it
yeah okay sure it’s they otherwise you
wouldn’t be sitting here ah see we all
have the heart now learn to talk to our
heart this connects with this and then
it gets us to do things if I’m not doing
things from here my brain is confused
I’m feeling something my brain is
telling me to do something but
physically I’m doing something else now
can you imagine why my friend was
confused because instead of following
his heart he is following what he’s
seeing around somebody said to me
recently but we mean how do you
translate love from a personal life into
a professional environment so we had
this wonderful discussion that love
cannot exist in a professional
environment well I’ve got news for you
if love in the personal life is written
l.o.v.e in the professional life it’s
written comm ITM ENT that’s what it is
it’s just the same thing it’s just
written differently and some people you
know what time we talked about this in
the professional environment and we
talked about passion engagement but
that’s what it is and we are passionate
about what we do when we are passionate
about what we do just watch the result
I’m lucky enough I am doing I’m working
and I’m doing something for people that
I just love doing I cannot imagine doing
anything else in my whole life I’ve been
doing this for the last 17 years and
what it is is I love impacting people’s
lives and that’s what I do for a living
if I didn’t
believe in my ability to do it and that
this is the place for me I would quit so
listen to our heart I was watching Oprah
Winfrey recently and she said the same
thing and she has the same advice so it
is not new whether we are in the digital
age or not our heart is still there it
will be there for the next 15 years if
we are alive and so follow the heart
follow your heart please tell my friend
that the other one is the a starting for
the asset adaptability um I hate to say
this but I started work when the huge
mobile phone just came on board so I’ve
been working for a long long number of
years and yes I started when I was 10
that’s another story but it is just to
say that all the way I have I’ve had to
adapt myself to the environment that is
not to say to forget Who I am and I hate
to use this analogy but that’s the best
one I can think of is like the chameleon
I’m so scared of them so why you am I
using that as an allergy but that’s
another story again you see a chameleon
is they will change the color depending
on the situation but the chameleon will
stick with the chameleon it will never
become a lion an elephant – whatever it
is so that’s adaptability and that calls
for rethinking which is good the only
problem that my friend we is having
there is an overthinking going on and
I’m going to illustrate that when I get
to the point DVD the next one is
communication well you see I just told
you the story with my friend about the
not bad and the not bad now we all hear
we listen to music and we’ve got all
sorts of music that we listen to some of
us we might prefer Sega some of us we
might prefer the you know rapper or a
rock and roll or whatever it is but it’s
still music
now just imagine instead of listening to
that music
putting your earphone and listening
wonderfully to that music somebody will
say was was to say to you here is the
script listen to the music just as well
and that’s communication is because we
need to hear the intonation the passion
that is coming out what are the feelings
that are coming across in what the
person is saying to me and excuse me it
doesn’t come across in a male because I
read what I want to read you will read
what you want to me but when we are face
to face over and above hearing what
you’re saying I am hearing the emotions
that come to that’s communication and
that’s true communication based on the
values that we have then the other one
is the I in the asset that’s initiatives
somebody said very writing growth only
happens outside our comfort zone if we
do not take initiative to step out of
the comfort zone came to be stopped
we’re going to be so upset with
ourselves we’re going to have all these
questions what if what if what if what
if going on in our mind take the
initiatives and love this quote and I
make that a motive for myself is the one
who risk nothing gets nothing and I’ve
added one to it is you die nothing we
did not come here to die nothing we all
have a purpose in life and by taking the
initiative we get to our purpose we can
call it dream we can call it vision we
can call it whatever but it’s our
purpose in life and by taking
initiatives we do that you’ve taken an
initiative to come here this morning
the last one the D is the diversity I am
lucky enough to interact with the
various generations in the working
environment locally as well as
regionally and in Africa and I’ll tell
you what it’s the same you know what is
the same we are let’s say we are from a
generation exponent
and we come across and we meet people
from the other generations and we start
saying why don’t they understand that
they should be doing that they don’t do
that they shouldn’t do that and we are
stressing ourselves for nothing I was
running a workshop recently and we had
somebody who was a millennial and we had
somebody who was a Gen X and the Gen X
interpreted the fact that a millennial
asks question as a disrespect to the
elders and the person who was a milliner
was shocked and because they had this
conversation sharing and the they both
then realized it’s about embracing the
diversity that we have around us it’s
not about saying you should be like me
you should be like that
no it’s about embracing the diversity
and diversity in this digital age is
magnificent it’s beautiful we’ve got it
everywhere so in fact it’s being given
to us on a plateau but you know what the
unfortunate thing is for my friend we my
friend we is not seizing them my friend
we is stuck in a little zone and
whatever is going around him he’s seeing
that as you know what you need to come
my way you need to come and instead of
asking himself those questions about how
can I interact differently how can I use
my passion to connect with that person
how can I adapt to that situation how
can I communicate differently how can I
think of the initiative to step out of
this and how can I embrace the diverse
and that’s all it boils down to and
before I introduce you to my friend I
want to tell you that everything that
I’ve been telling you up there that I
love asset is something that I
personally can fight for I’ve been in
the working environment for 25 years and
I’ve worked in Europe in Africa and in
Mauritius and I can tell you I’ve
had to harshly work on myself to adapt
to the environment to adapt to
everything that is going around used my
interpersonal skills and my passion and
I know a lot there are a few people
sitting in this room whom I work with
and I want to thank you for that
but what I want to say and they will
vouch for that is I can never work with
somebody if I haven’t developed a
relationship with a person because I can
only work with somebody if I trust that
person now come on tell me
Trust is a value that doesn’t exist in
the digital age it exists it has already
always existed and it will always exist
so before I end I’m going to introduce
you to my friend I know you were told
not to put your phone on to switch your
phone off but knowing how that
instruction normally gets followed I
know all your phones are either on
silence not even on airplane mode right
so can I ask you to please get your
phone out and if I can read
– please once you’ve got your phone
please go onto your camera and reverse
it and the person that you see there is
my friend we thank you very much
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