“Freewheeling opportunism” is used to refer to people who lack definitiveness of purpose and direction for their lives or career. When you lack a vision or life’s purpose, you are said to be someone who does not focus as you keep hopping from one thing to another. You move with easy things that may come along. Whatever you see as an opportunity, you grab it, even if it may not be in your line of business or interests! You are said to be someone who easily moves with the winds. When you lack a direction, anywhere the winds take you…

A lot of work has been done in the field of organisational development and change management. One of the major causes of strategy risks is poor execution culture, where people play as individuals instead of a team. Indeed, many companies invest in recruiting the best talent, but experience high staff turnover, due to stress, burnout, unrealistic targets, and a plethora of reasons that make the staff disengage. Like a soul or good heart to the human being, culture is the soul that makes the organisation run swiftly. It is the software of the organisation that creates synergy. No change management…

Despite the establishment of several anti-corruption agencies, corruption and fraud risk remain top value destroyers in Africa, and the world at large. The negative impact of corruption risk on economies is well documented. Abuse of the position of trust through influence peddling or other underhand methods has a pervasive impact on the people and the economy at large, including: Denial of justice by corrupt court officials leads to unfair resource allocation and injustice to the innocent. Early in my career, around 2005, I applied and obtained a bank loan to buy land. I bought an acre of land on a…