How do we get the best out of people without breathing down someone’s neck, check on or want to know everything they are doing? In our household, and believe it we live such a zen life, we have made a… Read More ›
employee performance optimisation
Pennilessness and its untruth on the character of man
At the Effectiveness lab, we believe in the authenticity of character – others may like to call it integrity. Whatever name you want to call it, it is all about: personal genuineness or originality. When individuals are authentic, they tend… Read More ›
It’s not always about money – the service-purists
Service-purists come in two strands: those paid a pittance for their service and those that are paid nothing – we call them all ‘service-purists.’ How is it possible that one chooses a profession that is very low paying, and at… Read More ›
CEOs and their teams: Specialists or Multi-functionalists? Series 2 of 2
Series 1; ‘CEOs and their teams: Specialists or Multi-functionalists?’ concluded on the note below: A generalist manager’s team is comparable to a jig-saw puzzle whose pieces are cut to fit multiple jig-saw spaces. The natural temptation of the generalist manager… Read More ›
The end of ‘Gestapo’ accounting: People – Series 4
Blog Series 3 of ‘The end of ‘Gestapo’ accounting’ concluded on an interesting note: welcoming you all to the beginning of the end of traditional accounting. Whimsical stuff, many, mainly traditional accountants, will say. We have shown in the last… Read More ›
The DNA of the disorganised
In this blog, the Effectiveness lab discusses the ‘DNA of the disorganised’ – consider the latter the characteristics of disordered people and in many cases, they cannot be changed. Disorganisation is a word we use daily in our lexicon, but… Read More ›
Tenacity vs. high IQ – what begets success?
Hello, friends – this last blog in the April 2016 Effectiveness lab series, explores a subject that fascinates many in Africa, specifically East Africa. The obsession with high levels of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and the accompanying A+ ‘accreditation’ at school…. Read More ›
Employee performance optimisation – Series 4 of 4
The last three blogs in this ‘Employee Performance Optimisation’ series focused on individual and team performance optimisation, as well as the strategy for delivering the two optimisations. This blog, the fourth and last in the series, focuses on the organising structure for… Read More ›
Employee performance optimisation – Series 3
Blog series one and two discussed ‘individual’ and ‘team’ performance optimisation respectively. This blog, the third in this particular series, delves into how employers can execute strategy for performance optimisation, for both individual staff and teams. Blog series one ended… Read More ›
Employee performance optimisation – Series 2
Last week’s blog discussed individual employee performance optimisation. This week’s blog continues the discourse on employee performance optimisation, but from the lens of a team. One may assume that when companies fail at optimising individual employee performance, they, in turn, will… Read More ›
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