A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT. He knows his time is running out. So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour. He died 5 months later. This is that lecture. The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇 Bookmark it for later

Well explained the difference between coaching and mentoring.

Humbled to be part of the 4th lifestyle medicine conference in Hail in Saudi Arabia.

Amazing. Conference with amazing people.

Great conversations taking place here in Hail. Amazing achievements especially the life expectancy of 83.5 years ! Next step is to make sure those years are full of quality life. Indeed more years and more life in those years through lifestyle medicine.

Indeed even listening is a choice .

Excited to be speaking at this conference

Lessons from a Farmer: Leadership Wisdom from the Fields of Zimbabwe Growing up in the rural villages of Zimbabwe, I learnt lessons that I didn’t recognise as useful back then. Today, as I reflect on those early mornings and long days, I realise they were shaping me into the leader I am becoming. Every morning, before school, we would wake up early to till the fields. After that, we’d prepare for our 3-kilometre walk to school and back again in the afternoon. Six kilometres a day, barefoot or in worn-out shoes, taught me more about resilience than any classroom could. 1. Prepare the Soil – Build the Team Before we ever planted a seed, we prepared the soil. We dug deep, removed stones, and softened the earth. In leadership, preparing the soil is about building your team creating the right environment for growth. You can’t plant seeds of vision in hard, unprepared ground. Take time to understand your people, build trust, and establish psychological safety. As Gallup reminds us, people need to be seen, heard, and valued before they engage fully. A leader’s job is to prepare the emotional soil. 2. Plant and Water – Meet the Needs of Your People We planted seeds and waited patiently for rain or watered them ourselves. In leadership, planting is about casting vision, and watering is about meeting the needs of your team. Tony Robbins teaches that every human being has six core needs: certainty, variety, significance, connection, growth, and contribution. A wise leader pays attention to these needs, nurturing their team so they feel supported and motivated to grow. 3. Remove the Weeds – Protect the Culture Once the plants began to grow, we watched for weeds. Weeds compete for nutrients just like negativity and gossip compete for energy in a team. A healthy leader must be vigilant. Address issues early. Give candid and caring feedback. But be tactical, don’t uproot the good plants while removing the weeds. Protect your culture, but protect your people too. 4. Add the “Top” Fertilizer – Encourage and Refresh When the crops were about to bloom, we added fertilizer and we called it “TOP,” short for “top dressing.” In leadership, this is the stage where you top up your team’s energy and morale. Recognise their efforts, celebrate progress, and offer development opportunities. Growth doesn’t happen by accident, it’s nourished intentionally. 5. Harvest Wisely – Sustain the Cycle Finally came the harvest. We sold some crops, kept some for ourselves, and saved some seeds for the next season. In leadership, harvesting is about celebrating results, sharing rewards, and reinvesting in the next cycle of growth. Great leaders think in seasons and they know that success today prepares the ground for tomorrow. Oh, how I don’t miss those early morning wake-ups! My favourite protest was, “Ko zvandanga ndave kutanga kurara?” (“But I was just about to start sleeping!”) I laugh now, but that season of life prepared me for everything that followed. It taught me patience, diligence, and the rhythm of growth, both in farming and in leadership. Because leadership, like farming, is about tending to people, preparing the soil, planting the vision, nurturing growth, and never forgetting to pull out the weeds before they take over the field.

There is a great need to offer flexible appointments that allows for 30mins to 60mins appointments for complex consultations. The current 10-15 minute appointments are no longer fit for purpose in most cases since minor illnesses are now being seen by other members of the GP team leaving the GPs to deal with complicated cases.

Powerful nuggets

3. CULTURE: Normalized behaviors no longer serve the mission. Heroics, asshole-level aggressive, avoiding conflict. Survival mode made them acceptable, not sustainable. Fix: Name the behaviors explicitly. Define 3-5 non-negotiables. Fire people who violate them repeatedly.

BROAD (normalized behavior): You have 3 typical root causes: 1. POWER: Status games are overshadowing the mission. Leaders are protecting territory instead of pursuing outcomes. Fix: Eliminate fiefdoms. Single-thread accountability. Make collaboration a KPI, not a suggestion.

IS THE PROBLEM NARROW OR BROAD? NARROW (one person): The choices are simple, recovery or removal. Have a direct conversation: get better fast or get out. Set a 30-day timeline. If they can't or won't change, make the change for them.

WHAT'S YOUR ROLE IN THE DYSFUNCTION? You hired these people. Or you inherited them and changed nothing. Or you've been trying ineffectively. If you can't see yourself clearly, you won't see the full problem clearly either. Own your part before you try to fix theirs.

IS THIS A MUST-SOLVE PROBLEM? If fixing your leadership team always takes a backseat to "real work," nothing will change. This IS your real work. A dysfunctional leadership team is a tax on every person, initiative and decision. Be honest: worth solving or not?

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How you define leadership determines how you live it. There are as many definitions of leadership as there are leaders attempting to define it. And that’s not a bad thing. But here’s the truth: The way you see leadership shapes the way you practice it. If you see it as control, you’ll manage. If you see it as service, you’ll uplift. If you see it as influence, you’ll inspire. That’s why it matters how we define leadership. For me, leadership is a process—a journey of: Guiding. Encouraging. Inspiring. Motivating. Empowering. Influencing. All toward helping others become the best version of themselves and achieve a common goal. That’s the heartbeat of leadership as I live it. 👇🏽 See the image below for my full definition. What’s yours?