The majority of the products and services we buy or are gifted, come from a system that, like the police force, monitor compliance to process by those that sale labour to employers. And just like we have different cultures in… Read More ›
Effectiveness
Is chronic poor timekeeping amongst certain people an education matter? Series 2 of 2
So we are back to complete the dialogue on timekeeping and if, it’s an education matter. Last week ended on the note below: “So, are you surprised that the people, especially from the above school generation can’t keep time, without… Read More ›
Is chronic poor timekeeping amongst certain people an education matter? Series 1 of 2
For the next two blogs, the Effectiveness lab is discussing the concept of time, its management and education. Is time-management taught formally in schools? Should it be or not? Is the approach to teaching time-management, right? Not long ago, we… Read More ›
Education commoditisation – the good and bad
Not long ago, Uganda’s higher education offer was too standardized – in fact, it was akin to the then CocaCola beverage. You could attain a standardised and quality-assured degree, be it the Bachelors, Masters or Ph.D. from the very few… Read More ›
Innovation at companies: often touted but lacks the right toolbox – Series 2 of 2
So – in this series two, the Effectiveness lab addresses the questions: how do leaders, managers, and organizations achieve sustainable innovation? However, before delving into the answer/s to the latter questions, we share below an excerpt from McKinsey that makes… Read More ›
Innovation at companies: often touted but lacks the right toolbox – Series 1 of 2
We recently stumbled upon a McKinsey article on innovation, leadership and organization culture – and couldn’t help but reminisce about the many attempts at innovation by ourselves as individuals, but also, other people that we interact with professionally For starters, innovation has… Read More ›
Believe!
A word that has so much meaning in management – whether it’s in the day-to-day running of a company, doing a turn-around job at a company and taking it in a new direction, or times of crisis. Leaders and Managers… Read More ›
Management recession: time for an Organisational Effectiveness (OE) function? Series 3 of 3
Last week, we sold, and pretty hard at that, the case for the Organisational Effectiveness (OE) Tsar. Companies were encouraged to re-look at the art of running business via a new lens. It can’t be business as usual. Are we… Read More ›
Management recession: time for an Organisational Effectiveness (OE) function? Series 2 of 3
It is apparent from Series 1 that the ongoing management-recession at firms needs a fix. And that the fix may be as simple as ‘functionalizing’ effectiveness i.e., making organization-effectiveness (OE) a formal function like finance, HR, etc and appointing a… Read More ›
Management recession: time for an Organisational Effectiveness (OE) function? Series 1 of 3
This three-part series takes a good look at effectiveness and the case as well as evidence for turning effectiveness into a formal function at the modern organization. We need to stem the entrenched management recession at companies and the ensuing… Read More ›
