Episode description

Paul Swart is Executive Mayor at Cape Agulhas Municipality. We discuss examples of visionary leadership, being a family, their smart city vision, innovative solutions to service delivery, long term thinking, managing complexities, and more.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Business Engineering

Listen or watch to explore:

• An era of renewed hope.
• The key characteristics of a visionary leader, with examples.
• What our leaders are not getting right when leading their municipalities and organisations, what needs to change and how change can happen.
• How the role of a leader has changed in recent years.
• How he manages the complexity of his daily responsibilities and how he prioritises what is done first.
• Cape Agulhas Municipality’s Smart City Strategy.
• Key challenges and service delivery that are being addressed with innovative and smart solutions.
• Long term thinking and planning.
• His vision for the future of Cape Agulhas.
• How he ensures effective interface between political office and administration. To ensure clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for each respective structure.

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