As you get closer to year end – seven days to go now – you must be getting into the contemplative-mood moment. When you and those around ponder what has been and may yet be We argued in series one… Read More ›
People
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.
The new-year goal setting confetti – caution and counsel from well meaning friends – 1 of 3
We know it’s festive season and that appetite for long reads is thin. So we will keep this festive season series short. It’s about new-year goal setting confetti — something that we do every end of the year, directly or… Read More ›
Digital and the social revolution in homes – Series 1 of 2
Human behavior mostly mimics the ‘code’ that was used to programme our brain when growing up. We can’t dispense with the need for young human beings needing to be groomed by fellow human beings. It’s only natural for mankind to… Read More ›
Burning the midnight oil doesn’t make you more smart or effective
All hours aren’t equal and working long hours does not necessarily mean greater productivity – New Zealand We all stay up late at night to complete a piece of work. And the next morning, many of you feel happy and… Read More ›
Organisations don’t change, people change
We all, time and again, experience solo or group institution-bashing tantrums. We whine about things small and big to do with the institution. Institution-bashing is so presumptuous that we don’t realize doing so doesn’t solve the organization’s problems and that… Read More ›
The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 2 of 2
So, we ended Series 1 last week asking what needed doing to stem the effects of the so-called 4th revolution. A revolution that is changing the manner in which labour is trained and deployed, the skills demand pattern, and how… Read More ›
The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 1 of 2
Who should be interested in this blog series? Parents of generation-Z kids, millennials, HR leaders, the education industry, and CEOs. For the last 100 years plus, one needed hard-skills to get into the labour market. Hard skills like: civil-engineering, mechanical… Read More ›
Opportunity-myopia – getting your 5-years-old genius back
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 ›
Why a degree no longer guarantees individual prosperity 2 of 2
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 ›
Why a degree no longer guarantees individual prosperity 1 of 2
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 ›
