How do you create a high-performance culture? How do you get staff morale through the roof through commitment and not compliance? How do you manage change initiatives effectively? The subject of effective change management is one of the differentiators of a great leader and an average one. Read more

2020 and 2021 have been dark years. During these years, the world has been under a dark cloud setting. But humanity will always thrive and overcome any challenges. And 2022 is no different. The question is how do you prepare your staff to win in 2022. Read more

The era of research paper strategy documents is long gone. You need an actionable, crystal-clear strategy for a fundamental shift. A research paper strategy is one with lots of literature review, generic SWOT analysis, etc without direct linkage to strategic choice and objectives. You have a document in which you can remove a company name and replace it with another, and surprise, it becomes a strategy for another company, just like that. Such plans fail at execution. If the rate of change of the external environment is faster than the rate of change of your internal environment, what will happen…

A leaking container cannot hold water for long. In 1992, my grandfather taught me a leadership lesson, that I never grasped well at the time, until I was of age to relate it to life events that I got to understand. I am sure you too have lessons you grasp, as you grow older. It is normal. Mzee Ataanansi Komunjara Akiiki was a religious man of integrity. He always said two things i) trust after controls, and ii) a leaking container cannot hold water. One day, he took me on a lesson on why I should always take time to…