Human behavior mostly mimics the ‘code’ that was used to programme our brain when growing up. We can’t dispense with the need for young human beings needing to be groomed by fellow human beings. It’s only natural for mankind to… Read More ›
people management
Diversity not a mere tick-box exercise – corporate optics 1 of 2
There may be no other country on earth, where diversity and inclusion – at every level, but more so the corporate and political spheres where power and influence are vested in the hands of a privileged and powerful class, are… Read More ›
Do you waste time in valueless meetings?
Are meetings the inevitable corporate scourge? Meetings cause anxiety, pain, and frustration for many in the corporate world. How long are the meetings that you are asked to attend? Do meetings add value to your work or are they merely… Read More ›
The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 1 of 2
Who should be interested in this blog series? Parents of generation-Z kids, millennials, HR leaders, the education industry, and CEOs. For the last 100 years plus, one needed hard-skills to get into the labour market. Hard skills like: civil-engineering, mechanical… Read More ›
Do you have the ‘GAFA’ factor at your workplace?
GAFA means Google – Apple – Facebook – & Amazon. It’s not an exaggeration to write that these four companies not only control the global economy but are, moreover under insignificant oversight by the governments that should control them, causing… Read More ›
When employees act like encrypted smartphones – series 2 of 2
This is fact – employee encryption is a problem that won’t go away soon. It’s a human thing that relates so very well to the engineering of the smartphone. We will call it for purposes of this series 2, human… Read More ›
When employees act like encrypted smartphones – series 1 of 2
Well, let us be blunt on this one. Don’t managers all over the world grapple with this dilemma – how to get maximum productivity from their employees. Managers, the good ones at that, will know that apart from the employees’… Read More ›
Easter, the Abrahamic religions and creating an apolitical workplace
Do you dream of having an apolitical workplace? A workplace where everyone one is not interested or involved in political acrobatics? Is this wishful thinking, after all, workplaces are run and dominated by humans? Humans are by their nature political… Read More ›
Ubuntu – getting the best out of the Ugandan worker in me
We all grow up watching how those we live and work with, manage other people. Proximity to particular cultures and the habits that develop from such closeness, make us learn and embrace certain management habits. We also learn to defend,… Read More ›
The organisation-development X-ray (ODX)
It has been eleven (11) months since we wrote the first blog of the Effective organisation – organisational vitals and bionic balance series. We have written over forty (40) blogs on the subject. We set out to answer the question: what… Read More ›
