Category: Business
MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS
A building with poor foundations may initially look very imposing, but it will soon develop cracks in its walls and instability in its overhead structures. Unless something is done on the foundations (where the initial work should have been done properly), there is very little that can be done to hold the building together in […]
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THE FIVE PILLARS OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION
Corporate transformation is a fundamental organization process of renewal that facilitates the long-term survival, sustainability and success of a business by focusing on fulfilling the needs of the changing customer. Successful corporate transformation requires the cooperation and participation of all members of the organization. The five pillars of corporate strategy enables an organization to stimulate […]
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IS YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM MADE UP OF LIONS, LAMBS, LOBSTERS OR WOLVES?
Is your leadership team made up of lions, lambs, lobsters or wolves? Every leadership team is made up of leaders and followers. While it may be assumed that the leader is the head of the team, the only difference between leaders and followers is that leaders practice extrinsic leadership while followers exercise intrinsic leadership. Both […]
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WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU GET MONEY?
The poverty mind thinks of what to buy The wealth mind plans to multiply The poverty mind wants to spend The rich mind will find a way to lend The poverty mind is always in need The wealth mind would rather plant a seed. The poverty mind seeks to get. The rich mind will let. […]
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RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE; IT IS MORE COMMON SENSE THAN COMPLEX BUSINESS JARGON!
On the 30th June 2013 the Sunday Nation Newspaper published a pull out titled, “Transformative CEOs with Golden hands”. The pullout featured 37 CEOs and the businesses they lead. The report covered 30 men and 7 women. Eight of these CEOs held doctorate (PhD) degrees while the organizations ranged from billion-dollar corporations to SMEs […]
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LEADERSHIP IS WAR
Early this morning I met with a group of staff, in a business, to talk about “what is leadership” and “the role of employees in leadership”. By the end of the session, it was quite clear that leadership is war. And that staff have a very clear role to play in winning that war. When […]
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ALWAYS PLAN AND PREPARE
I gave a young man a task to plant a tree to which he did agree. I said dig the hole two feet deep!, two feet wide and two feet across. The man said he would. But since the tree, at the time, could fit in no more than a two inch box, he saw […]
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9 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO LEARN TO WORK FROM HOME – QUICKLY!
The Agrarian age is not coming back! No, the Agrarian age has not come back, but we are now moving past the age of Technology. In the agrarian age (before the Industrial age) people worked on farms. Production was measured in terms of manual output. When people moved to offices and factories, production added the […]
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Experience
When employers ask for experience, they are looking for evidence of “can do what the job requires”. The employer hopes that if a person has been exposed to a similar challenge in the past, they will have picked up skills, knowledge and knowhow to do similar work in another environment. However, experience is not a […]
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