From The Field

Notes from the bush and the boardroom.

Leadership, teaming, and decision-making. Translated through the ancient craft of wildlife tracking.

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Leadership · 7 min read

What a Master Wildlife Tracker Can Teach Us About Leadership

For four decades, Renias Mhlongo has tracked Africa's most dangerous animals on foot. Here are seven lessons from a master tracker that every leader needs to hear.

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Leadership · 6 min read

The Tracker's Mindset: Leading When the Path Isn't Clear

Master trackers spend most of their time without certainty. Here's what their craft teaches us about leading through ambiguity.

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Facilitation · 4 min read

Why Campfire Conversations Get People Talking

Real dialogue rarely happens around boardroom tables. We unpack the psychology behind a 200,000-year-old facilitation tool.

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Decision Making · 5 min read

Decisions in the Bush: A Lesson in Real Consequences

What changes when a wrong decision could mean a charging elephant — instead of a missed quarterly target?

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Leadership · 6 min read

The Tracker's Mindset: Five Ways of Thinking That Help Leaders Navigate Uncertainty

The five mindsets that consistently separate exceptional trackers from average ones — and what they mean for how you lead.

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Leadership · 4 min read

THE LEOPARD, THE TRACKER AND THE GUIDE What Alex van den Heever and Renias Mhlongo taught me about human connection By Grant Ashfield A young white safari guide. An experienced Shangaan tracker. A charging leopard. And a friendship that would go on to change hundreds of lives. The story of Alex van den Heever and Renias Mhlongo is one of the most remarkable examples of human connection I have encountered. It is a story about curiosity. About trust. About stepping into another person's world. And perhaps most importantly, it is a story about the extraordinary things that can happen when we do. Alex and Renias came from very different worlds. Alex is of 14th generation Afrikaans heritage. Renias was an 18th - generation Shangaan whose family had been removed from the Kruger National Park region during the apartheid era. By any normal measure, their paths should never have crossed. But they did.

A new article by the Tracking Success team.

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Leadership · 4 min read

The Leopard, The Tracker, and The Guide

A new article by the Tracking Success team.

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