We all use the word STRUCTURE to mean many things both in our private and workplace environments. Structure to many is hardware i.e. it is tangible, visible, and not often related to the invisible. Structure in a formal sense is… Read More ›
Effectiveness
Surviving is not the same as performance
Many people across the globe either confuse or choose to disregard the difference between survival and performance. Do you know that many organisations survive and open their doors every day, but do not perform? You must be wondering why at… 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 ›
Digital savvy – developments’ answer to that elusive accountability! – Series 4
In this fourth blog of the digital-savvy series, we are discussing how high digital-quotient (DQ) aids effective accountability framework development at pro-poor organisations. Pause for a moment and ask: why discuss accountability, ‘effective’ or not? Even more interesting, is discussing… Read More ›
Digital savvy – Development, time for ‘miniature’ and ‘on-demand’ beneficiary service – Series 1
Development organisations are not accustomed to the many industry-disruptions like their business peers. Yet, development organisations are waking up to the realisation that their industry is changing so fast, and that the ‘business as usual’ ‘we are here for a… Read More ›
Email – the ‘task-courier’ & devil
My last two blogs focused on a subject very close to my heart: personal effectiveness, especially at our professional workplace. The blogs explored the twin themes of managing meetings and the personal task list. This blog delves into another topic… Read More ›
Are you an effective and efficient task manager?
Talk to any white-collar worker and their gripe list will read like: workload, chronically full email inbox, thin and stretched teams in departments, ‘monster’ bosses that never think about the welfare of their staff, working late and on weekends. It is… Read More ›
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