The Perspective
From short reflections to in-depth articles, explore Yusuf Bodiat’s latest thinking on business, leadership, and transformation.
Explore Yusuf’s latest reflections, articles, and newsletter excerpts — drawn from LinkedIn and The Perspective. Updated regularly, this space connects you to the ideas shaping business, leadership, and growth
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Save the Cents, Lose the Rands
A note this week on the small rules that cost organisations more than they save, and why the saving is almost always easier to see than the cost.
Read this editionEdition58What Boards Do Between Meetings
A board meets four, maybe six times a year. Most people assume that is when the work happens. I assumed the same before I joined boards.
Read this editionEdition57Judgement, Earned
A note this week on something I have learned over fifteen appointment processes about the difference between structure and objectivity.
Read this editionEdition56Choosing Is the New Watching
This week’s note is drawn from a LinkedIn post last week, about something I rewatched, and what the exercise of finding it told me about how we watch anything now.
Read this editionEdition55The Number Is the Easy Part
This week's note is drawn from a LinkedIn post last week, about what a budget actually is, and why the arithmetic is the easy part.
Read this editionEdition54The Baseline Moves
This week's note is drawn from a LinkedIn post last week, about a small pattern that has repeated once already, and looks to be repeating again.
Read this editionEdition53The Decision Already Made
This week's note is drawn from a LinkedIn post about a new phone, and about how a specific kind of decision gets made without ever really being made.
Read this editionEdition52Care in the Margins
This week's note is drawn from a small observation in a hotel room, about a kind of care that most professional work rarely leaves room for.
Read this editionEdition51Thirteen Weeks Forward
This week's note is drawn from a LinkedIn post from last week, about a small piece of professional discipline that almost none of us apply to our own lives.
Read this editionEdition50Playing Out of Position
A small milestone this week: the fiftieth edition, and the one-year mark. But the plan for the day is what it always is: a note worth reading, and nothing that isn't.
Read this editionEdition49What You're Actually Paying For
This week's note comes out of a LinkedIn post from last week: an observation about airport lounges that turned into something bigger about what premium services actually sell.
Read this editionEdition48What the Labels Miss
This week's note is drawn from a small observation I've been making at recent conferences, about a piece of language that quietly costs us more than it saves.
Read this editionEdition47The Workforce That Never Was
This week's note picks up a LinkedIn thread from last week and pushes further into the harder question underneath it.
Read this editionEdition46Aged, Not Dated
This week's note is drawn from a family holiday in a place I usually only see in the context of its business, and a design discipline worth naming that most organisations have quietly abandoned.
Read this editionEdition45The Biscuit Shaped Like Africa
A quieter note this week, drawn from a small observation in a coffee shop. Not everything worth saying starts with a point.
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