Do not be disappointed and disheartened. Do not allow yourself to despair, fall down and lose your focus because of the mess you are seeing. You do not have the luxury of losing your clarity of vision and your energy. Glance at the negatives, but focus on the positives. Wherever you put your attention that is where your attention will…
When circumstances change it is also time for you to reimagine your circles in life and relaunch yourself to great places. The boundaries you accept become the Bollinger Bands that define your territory of free play. Go beyond your limitations and reimagine you life. Look at the circles of influence and concern around your life as the starting points and…
Greatness requires intelligence. Perhaps unlike the number crunching that you have always known. You have to have the grit and the horse-power to work through obstacles, challenge limitation, maintain focus, express faith and achieve your dreams. It takes intelligence to keep working when others have written you off. Giving up is an easy option. It takes intelligence to get up…
For a long time, social media has been considered by others as an idle activity and what young people do when they have nothing else to do. Many things have changed. Social media is no longer a joke, but a powerful platform and family of applications that connect people and organisations in interesting ways. It is an essential tool for…
Play to win and not just to play. Turbulence will always challenge you but cannot kill you unless you dose. It will challenge your resolve, your mind and the efficacy of your strategies. In turbulence it is possible to win and to be propelled forward beyond your wildest imagination. Turbulence creates novel situations, opportunities, threats and risks. Others regrettably do…
James Ngugi, who later identified himself as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, was born in 1938. A prolific Kenyan writer and academic who wrote in his native Gikuyu language as his preferred medium of expression. He was a liminal thinker. Mr. Ngugi wrote a moving novel in 1965 entitled: “The River Between.” In the book he tells the story of the separation…
Africa is a great place to live. There is no place like it. It is not a single country but a continent full of dynamism, colour, diversity and wealth. Africa has plenty for its people and a lots to offer the world. As we celebrate Africa’s heritage, we have the responsibility to confront its challenges and ills. Africa has a…
No challenge lasts for ever. No mountain is ever too high to climb or too big to move. The opportunity for leadership is a daily challenge and call that you must answer truly and urgently. With good leadership impossible things become possible and practicable. With poor leadership possible things become impossible and impractical. Leading is no easy task, and the…
When we face an existential threat it is not time for petty fights, settling domestic scores, or apportioning blame. It is said that when the mighty Titanic sank, the band was playing, the passengers were mindless in celebratory dance and some of crew members were busy rearranging chairs on its deck. It does not look like normal behavior but it…
Jim Collins in his book: “Good to Great – Why some companies make the leap and others don’t” observed that organizations, and people, that survive adversity and moved from good to great embrace a somewhat paradoxical mindset. They labeled this mindset, the Stockdale Paradox and described it thus: “You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless…