Beyond Diversity: Building Cultures That Honour Every Culture

Beyond Diversity: Building Cultures That Honour Every CultureBy: Cobus Visser Published on: 27/10/2025

Learn how leaders can turn diversity into belonging by understanding cultural differences and leading with awareness, respect, and emotional intelligence.

Team Dynamics & Culture
Beyond Diversity: Building Cultures That Honour Every Culture

The 10 Commandments of Family Business: Building a Legacy That Lasts

The 10 Commandments of Family Business: Building a Legacy That LastsBy: Cobus Visser Published on: 20/10/2025

Family energy runs on trust, familiarity, and belonging. Business energy runs on clarity, systems, and accountability. The real art is learning to make these two energies dance together without one consuming the other. The principles that follow, I call them the 10 Commandments of Family Business, are not corporate theories. They’re human truths. They come from decades of working with leaders and families who have built, broken, and rebuilt what matters most. They are lessons born from the fire, literally and figuratively, because just like walking on fire, leading your family business requires calm focus, courage, and unshakable belief.

Business & Family Business
The 10 Commandments of Family Business: Building a Legacy That Lasts

How to Scale the Family Business Without Any Bloodshed

How to Scale the Family Business Without Any BloodshedBy: Cobus Visser Published on: 13/10/2025

Scaling a family business should strengthen relationships, not strain them. Yet, too many family-led companies break under the emotional weight of growth. In this piece, Cobus Visser explores the balance between love and logic in family enterprises showing how boundaries, clarity, and trust can turn generational tension into legacy.

Business & Family Business
How to Scale the Family Business Without Any Bloodshed

The Calm Leader

The Calm LeaderBy: Cobus Visser Published on: 06/10/2025

There’s a moment every leader reaches where the noise becomes too much. The messages keep coming in. Deadlines tighten; the team looks to you for direction while you’re still trying to make sense of what’s changing. You start to feel that familiar pressure, the sense that if you stop moving, even for a second, everything might collapse. I’ve been there more times than I can count. In my early days leading teams, I used to think good leadership meant being the first to react. Quick answers. Fast decisions. Always available. I believed that constant motion meant progress. What I’ve learned over years of coaching executives and working with business owners across industries is this: speed without clarity eventually burns you out. Today, the most effective leaders aren’t the loudest in the room. They’re the calmest.

Leadership
The Calm Leader