Running a company is like managing a football club. You must identify the best people and place them in the right positions. A football club key scorecard is winning championships or league titles or cups. To do so, football clubs have a clear structure to identify, nurture, train and manage people. The main product of a football club is the first eleven (11) football team; and the reserve players. The football leadership team, headed by the Head Coach is responsible for identifying the best players and their ideal positions. If the Coach switches positions of the striker and goal keeper,…

Do you know that everyday you go to work; the company is spending money? As a good employee, conduct a daily reality check: what is the cost the business makes because it gave you a job? And how much revenue do you bring on the table? If you did not come to work today, how much loss or gain would the company? The objective of any business is to make money and save costs or both. When you get a job, you need to study your job description or scorecard carefully to understand where to you fall. Are you in…

If you want a good life, go out and act. Start doing something about it. Stop waiting for some folk who is already frustrated with their lives to come and talk into you some motivation. One of the worst performance improvement concept is motivational speaking. The best person to motivate you is you. The staff has a choice: to be self-motivated or not. It does not matter how many motivational talks one attends, if one lacks a full tank of personal beliefs in own potential to thrive, nothing good will happen. For that reason, over 70% of the people who…

Technology is slowly killing traditional local knowledge. Gone are the days of using pit latrines for sanitation. Before flashing toilets, we would dig up 50 feet pits and call them to pit latrine. That is where one would go for the so-called “long call.” Note that today, the mobile phone has changed the meaning of this word. When one says, ‘long call’. It is understood by the Baby Boomer generation to mean speaking on the mobile phone for many minutes or being too long on the phone call. The pit hole rule states that “Don’t get ready. Stay ready.” This…

To build a good house, start with a plan. Then focus on laying a good foundation. For better results, build your house on a wide, flat and deep rock. Strengthen your house by mixing your materials – water, sand, cement, etc in the right quantities. But how do you supervise a house construction without knowing the bills of quality? As a new board member, it is your responsibility to know the details first until you are comfortable with the state of the business or organisation. Also read: How Board members are killing NGO’s Consider the following: What is your mandate…