Darren Ryan
Stories (3/0)
How To Join And Successfully Lead A New Team
A few years ago, I joined a new organization managing an existing, well-established team. I was an experienced manager at the time with a solid 10 years behind me. I had built teams up from scratch and learnt to lead people through some difficult times. But I’d never taken over an experienced team in a new company. The prospect frightened me.
By Darren Ryan4 years ago in Journal
How Apartheid Almost Didn’t Happen
Someone once said that hindsight is a privilege. Nowhere is this more poignant than when looking into the past, and reflecting on the historical events that have shaped the world we live in today. From our present position we get to analyse and judge these events while at the same time theorizing on alternative worlds in the wake of even the slightest change in circumstances. The ‘what ifs’ abound with varying implications, but it can be safely said that in many instances, even the slightest change in events at any point in time, could have put us all on a different course to the one we currently navigate.
By Darren Ryan4 years ago in The Swamp