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This little dessert is known by many names, profiterole (French), cream puff (US) or choux à la crème, but here in Cape Town it’s renowned as a chocolate éclair. According to Wikipedia , it is a choux pastry filled with some sort of cream and topped with a chocolate or caramel sauce. Click here for the recipe.

I was privileged to attend a presentation by Ian Thomas , author of The power of the pride and was captivated by the lessons we can learn from lions and how we can apply these to business. Ian spent a number of years as a game ranger at an exclusive game farm in Africa. He was often privy to the conversations of many business people and saw various correlations between business and how lions interacted. Ian’s presentation contains footage and sound clips of the animals he is talking about and it is quite powerful to hear the roar of the lions. The highlights from Ian’s presentation are: 1. Powerful teams are made up of powerful individuals Ian repeated this a few times before the audience fully absorbed the power of this statement. But essentially it is exactly what it says ‘powerful teams are made up of powerful individuals’. Individuals who are aware of their strengths and continuously nurture it will contribute better to the teams’ performance. According to Ian, lion