The water tight principle applies to your life just as it works for anything that holds water. Be it a jerry can, glass, bottle, cup and even a boat. The principle states that “if you don’t firmly tighten the lid, the water will leak.” And it doesn’t matter how small or big the leak is, eventually the boat will soon drown, or the jerry can will be empty. The same principle applies to your daily life and business. If you have small leaks in the business, eventually it will collapse. It is like a small fraud were someone is taking…

What is innovation? How is it different from creativity? It is very easy for people to talk about being innovative and creative yet they don’t have an idea of what these two things mean. I like to refer to the story of creation in the book of Genesis in the Bible. In the context of the Bible, once there was nothing and God created something for the first time. To create or to be creative is to come up with something new that never existed. A mobile phone already exists, you can’t talk about creating a phone. What you might…

How do you add value instantly in any business you are operating in? The best way to add value is to identify the unoccupied space and occupy it. When I was looking for a job at one of the audit firms, I didn’t wait when the jobs were being advertised in the papers because sometimes they are not advertised. But also, I have come to understand that when organizations need people, they rarely advertise. For the clients I have handled ranging from telecoms, authorities, banks, and NGOs tell me they are just waiting for a brilliant person who can come…

I know people have told you about developing a personal brand.You have gotten so many ideas. In this case, I want you to build an internal brand that sets you apart, be a source of attraction in your organization. I don’t know whether you know about a queen bee. The bees can fly anyway but will always come back to the queen bee. How do you position yourself to be a magnet and center of attraction so that people feel your presence? To have this kind of recognition, it takes you to have a clear game plan on how you…

In your life, whom do you consider as your stakeholder? Theoretically, a stakeholder is a person who has interest and influence in things which you do. If you have a brother, sister, father, mother or a friend, as long as they have interest in your success or failure, they are your stakeholders. They only not have an interest but also can significantly influence the type of career you do, which company do you work for and not, when to marry and from which to marry, when to shift from your current place and which house to reallocate to? Etc. If…

How do you quickly become a strong team player in any environment? Assuming you are a new employee, how do you quickly become a known intellectual? The first thing is get everybody in the room. Ask them to write down what they think are the most pressing issues in the business now. Champion the cause and be the facilitator of the process so that members come up with the solutions. If you do so, you are effectively identifying the organizational pains and helping to fix them. Most of the time, challenges fall within low sales, high costs, poor reporting mechanism…