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 ›
leadership qualities
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 ›
2017 – Business Un-usual? Series 4 of 4
Well, in this final series of the ‘2017 – business unusual?’ Blog, we bring together all the discussion from the last four weeks and actually usher you all into 2017. A year, that like many others past, is likely to be… Read More ›
Fashion sense & your body: impact on CEO effectiveness
Whenever we discuss how effective CEO’s are at their jobs, there is a tendency to look out for the traditional variables and use them to assess the success or failure of our leaders. Indeed, certain individual variables have traditionally driven… Read More ›
