We fundamentally believe that the most important asset for any organisation (including family) is its people (staff). Organisations that get the best out of its people, shall get ahead of the others in the race for productivity and effectiveness.
From where we stand – we see youth and post-youth unemployment as a ticking time bomb. Unemployment is attributed to many factors – bad politics and governance, corruption, bad-economics, lack of skills, rigid agrarian economic regimes, etc. However, this blog… Read More ›
At the Effectiveness lab, we premise most of our discourse on the hypothesis that what is both effective and efficient, ultimately brings efficacy to what we do. But apparently, the education industry may be losing the plot. The academic degree… Read More ›
Are we witnessing, albeit gradually, the demise of the academic degree? Perhaps demise is too big a word to use for the human ‘license’ to individual prosperity (read: degree). But there is undoubtedly a change-of-guard conversation here. The degree is… Read More ›
GAFA means Google – Apple – Facebook – & Amazon. It’s not an exaggeration to write that these four companies not only control the global economy but are, moreover under insignificant oversight by the governments that should control them, causing… Read More ›
The family rental industry in Japan was born to deal with a social enigma – the disintegration of the traditional family into something too nuclear, and that no longer boasts of social relevance. The modern family numbers are so small… Read More ›
When we are lonely and sad, throw everything against the wall and nothing sticks, we start to despair. We all lose loved ones and fail to find suitable alternatives – the loss may be caused by death, divorce, anger and… Read More ›
Stand guarded against individuals that damage team dynamics at work. Team spoilers can hide behind their technical brilliance. Ironically, more often than not, team spoilers create signature-value for the firm. The latter produces a blind spot for hiring managers and… Read More ›
Learn to build a world you yearn for in the world that you inherited. To those individuals that job hop: serve a minimum of four years in a job. It’s not that difficult if your mind is programmed to view… Read More ›
Are we eating and working ourselves to death? We eat food and die of food. We get a job and die of the job. We do too much work, and end up stressed and brain dead. We eat food and… Read More ›
This is fact – employee encryption is a problem that won’t go away soon. It’s a human thing that relates so very well to the engineering of the smartphone. We will call it for purposes of this series 2, human… Read More ›
