Niven Postma
South African workplace politics expert, leadership/strategy/culture consultant, and author of “If You Don’t Do Politics, Politics Will Do You”; Harvard Business Review contributor and Managing Director of Niven Postma Inc.
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Aug 18, 2026
Niven PostmaGUEST
with a coach, my really impressive coach a few years ago, and I was raging against the system that I was in.
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Michael BuntingHOST
Are there any other useful kinds of questions we can ask ourselves? I know it doesn't mean we're gonna be honest with ourselves in the answer.
Niven PostmaGUEST
Um, what are some other useful questions you can ask yourself? Yeah, I suppose there's a, there's a, a way of thinking about risk that I heard years ago when I was at the central bank.
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Michael BuntingHOST
... do exercises like that, Nevaine, where you ask people, yes, there's the virtue, but at least know what it looks like when you're doing it poorly and know what it looks like when you're doing it well?