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.
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
