As expected, the Brexit political carnage has continued this week – but there is progress, and significant at that, towards the choice of party leader and ultimately prime minister of the country. The candidate list has now been whittled down… Read More ›
leadership qualities
Brexit Management lessons – leading the TM way
We are back with the Brexit melodrama monologue, and this week, we delve into matters leadership. And whose leadership style is under the spotlight? Of course, that of the lady that has steered Brexit negotiations till now, Theresa May (TM… Read More ›
Leaders and organisations – into harms way or not, type?
Like many of you, we often read online content. Typically, we scan RSS feeds over a cup of millet porridge in the evening – we recently read content on Quora about Air Force One, the plane that moves the US… Read More ›
Modesty and humility aren’t equal to weak leadership
Saturday 18th August, 2018 while waiting for a haircut at a Nairobi city saloon, I read on the TV screen that Koffi Annan former UN Secretary-General was dead. My mind raced back to the period of the Genocide in Rwanda… Read More ›
Effective managers are ever keen to ‘right’ a wrong
Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong. Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to not learning from our actions. At the effectiveness lab, we call such… Read More ›
Servant leadership and its place at the bionically-balanced entity
Leadership is power’s twin. Leadership grants leaders a lot of power, and such power can be used in several ways. Some leaders have used power to coerce others into involuntary submission, others have used power to get consensus in teams,… Read More ›
Leaders are always out of their comfort zone – the answer
The bionically-balanced and smart organization operates in extreme environments where turbulence, short product, and service cycles, as well as unpredictability, are a given. CEO’s and other leaders are permanently out of their comfort zones. Those at the helm of organizations… Read More ›
The four (4) leader archetypes – situate your individual leader brand
Leaders provide direction, implement plans, and get the best out of people. Indeed those that succeed at leadership have the brains to not only define the right agenda and lead the people but also think hard and different. Leadership is… Read More ›
Five unique attributes of a ‘smart’ leader – going beyond the traditional
The last four blogs situated leadership at the bionically-balanced and Smart-entity. Smart leadership is discussed from multiple lenses: efficacy; the factors that influence your fate as a leader; and the impact organizational culture can have on your ability to lead and… Read More ›
The call to lead – like priesthood!
It’s the norm at the Effectiveness lab to challenge the status-quo – we believe in the value of disrupting conventional management thinking. That is not to say that we are anti-establishment, but we shall always try to get our readers… Read More ›