In this first blog of 2016 at the Effectiveness Lab, I want to share some experience that got me to question why companies spend millions of dollars on advertising every year. Apparently, the annual global advertising spend currently stands at… Read More ›
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Development and its strategy-myopia monologues – series 4 of 4
Series 3 of Development and its strategy-myopia blog concluded with the question: Does your International Civil Society Organisation (ICSO) have the architecture to effectively house and sustainably operate a critical-configured organisation? The Effectiveness Lab in this final series of the strategy-myopia… Read More ›
Development and its strategy-myopia monologues – Series 3 of 4
Series 2 of the Strategy-Myopia monologues explored the International Civil Society Organisation (ICSO) identity and showed how identify-compliance can enhance viability at the ICSO. Stopping strategy-myopia monologues at the ICSO starts with defining and complying to identity – hard I know,… Read More ›
Development and its strategy-myopia monologues – Series 2 of 4
In this second series of the strategy-myopia monologues, the Effectiveness Lab shifts its attention towards an important but often overlooked aspect of a viable organisation, identity. In series one, the Effectiveness Lab asked whether the International Civil Society Organisation (ICSO)… Read More ›
Development and its strategy-myopia monologues – Series 1 of 4
Why are development and its party-goers so fascinated with keeping with ‘what they know’ and not ‘what they don’t know’? Quite a blind spot and one would imagine that it is only a matter of time before the industry is… Read More ›
Effective HR: why organisations should look outside and not inside
Have you observed that, increasingly, the HR function at the modern organisation is requested to recruit staff for other functions, but by the time such staff are selected, their skills are no longer a requirement for the organisation? That is… Read More ›
Leaders change organisations – fallacy!
Are you one of those professionals that have helped sustain the thinking that organisations are changed and saved by a special breed of leader, highly sought after in the business world? This linearity is familiar to those of you that write… Read More ›
The INTANGIBLES that set quintessential leaders apart from the pack
Leaders do not need technical skills in the core business of the organisations they lead, to achieve success in their jobs. I am sure that you and myself possess transferable leadership skills that can lead us to success in any… Read More ›
Stop calling yourself a change-management expert – no big deal
Whenever I read curriculum vitae’s of applicants for top management jobs, it is apparent that many pitch their case around exquisite change-management skills. These senior and well-tested cadres are teaching their potential employer that: change-management is a critical capability and… Read More ›
Agility and not Efficiency brings excellence to your work
About six years ago, I identified a young man called Jeff, who was in his penultimate year of an undergraduate IT degree at Makerere University in Uganda. Jeff took time off from the university to do various IT jobs for… Read More ›
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