Common Purpose Blog

Dishaa (our Venture which connected leaders in the UK and India) was so successful, unbelievably successful, that we have been asked to launch similar Ventures between lots of countries around the world (see www.commonpurpose.org/ventures). Dishaa means direction in Hindi, so we will have Phambili (direction in the Nguni languages inc. Xhosa and Zulu), Dao Xiang [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

With the world on the edge of their seats preparing for the start of the World Cup, Elsbeth Dixon, the Chief Executive of Common Purpose South Africa, reflects on the anticipation and what it means to be ‘South Africa’ right now: Yesterday saw the biggest street parties Johannesburg has ever seen.  With hundreds of thousands [...]

Common Purpose welcomes one of our Board of Trustees, banker and philanthropist – Rudi Bogni – as a guest blogger. Rudi has blogged about Chairman of Nedbank, Dr Reuel Khoza‘s recent talk on leadership in Sandton, South Africa. My Old Mutual board colleague, Reuel Khoza – Chairman of Nedbank – gave an inspiring talk on [...]

Twenty years ago Nelson Mandela took his first steps to freedom from the Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town after 27 years of incarceration. Today, South Africa is celebrating this historical moment and the legacy of its first black and democratically elected president, his role in ending apartheid, and the immense change this meant for [...]