Rise and Shine
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Our common duty: Building others
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a recruitment symposium for final year students of the engineering programme offered by…
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Boost your self-confidence
You might have everything that is required to excel, but if you lack self-confidence, you will not get there. Self-confidence…
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Master winning criteria like Obama
Obama made BIG history again last week when Americans gave him the right to preside over their country for another…
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Fight to the end
Call me confused or not serious with football supporting or loyalty, but I no longer have an exact English Premier…
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Build a dependable reputation
Today, we want to focus on what you can do to ensure that you build a dependable reputation, especially as…
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Drawing strength from failure: Obama’s case
US President Barack Obama is one big figure that I have personally followed closely and studied to a good degree…
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Management Lessons from Sir Geoffrey Colby
Many of us will remember from our primary school history classes that Sir Geoffrey Colby was a British colonial administrator…
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Job interview lesson from Obama
As you will probably be aware, Americans will be going to polls next month to elect a new president that…
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Make your boss shine
Last week, we looked at the generic expectations of employees, a framework that any boss can use to understand the…
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Understand ideal expectations of employees
We need no justification to claim that a good manager is one who accurately understands the needs and wants of…
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Using the PIE model for career success
Motivated career people are constantly searching for tools and frameworks that they can use to excel in their career. Today,…
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Deepening skills by stretching challenges
When you are a supervisor or manager responsible for either someone new to work environment, new to the company or…
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Success lesson from the game of squash
For the past one year, I have been playing the game of squash on a regular basis to keep fit…
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Delivering through motivation as managers
Many managers and leaders simply use force and fear to get their team members to carry out the actions they…
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Fact-based working approach
Ours is a society that still has a hangover of working by guesswork and treating suggestions and assumptions as facts.…
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Follow through to the end
I recently met a friend who complained that his good boss has just left the company. He shared with me…
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Improve your CV everyday
Recently, we discussed under this column how recruitment panels struggle to shortlist best candidates for interviews because many applicants have…
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Career success lessons from Tom Botts
Tom Botts was head of Shell Oil’s Exploration and Production in Europe (EPE) for four or so years until 2009.…
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Doing acts of patriotism
Tomorrow, July 6, we will be celebrating 48 years of independence for our lovely Warm Heart of Africa, Malawi. We…
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Fast-track your career progression
Many employees want to progress their career at work. A lot of people leave their current employer for greener pasture…
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