Without further complicating the subject, let’s get directly to the crisis of 2020. Is Corona virus collapsing the markets? The simple answer is no. It is a contributing factor to the culminating crisis. The world has known Ebola, bird flu and swine flu but none of them grounded flights, closed airports and forced full lockdowns. What […]
Do not copy and paste. Do not be a me-too person. Be your own voice. Raise your voice. Hiding is too easy. Ah well, raising your hand and voice makes you vulnerable and vulnerability hurts. It exposes you. It turns lights on you. To the Wanna-Be and Wanna-Do not to the status quo keepers. All […]
What really matters in creating, building and achieving something great are the actions not the words. Purpose is an action not contemplating statement. Most companies envision building a better world, but their actions contradict their words. They lack the fuel to do that. Vision entices the imagination, purpose propels action. In other words, actions speak […]
They always go in tandem. Democracy promoters always choose the world’s oil and gas rich countries to spread their democracy. This secret love between oil and democracy should not stay in disguise. Wherever they smell oil, democracy promoters run fast, and they get faster if they smell both oil and gas. Libya, Venezuela, Iraq and […]
Engaging people and developing the organization are the fundamental tasks of all HR and OD managers. The HR man deals with the manpower and the OD one tackles the development of the organization. Are their roles people oriented and very strategic? Certainly no. The fact of matter is that both HR and OD managers’ […]
When companies face a risky situation, the normal business practice is that senior managers end up with a graph that nobody understands. The resulting data is compiled from a mixture of complicated analyses that do not diagnose the problem or provide a way to a solution. Such analyses usually further complicate the situation. Who is […]
Success stories are glorified and celebrated everywhere. In schools, they reward straight A’s and demote B’s and C’s . Failure is a stigma for most people. Everyone talks about success, its arts and techniques. Few who teach us how to fail and what to do when we fail. Do not tell me succeed, teach me […]
Closely monitoring the synergy between the purpose of the business and its final impact. This is the central task of leaders, namely Chief Purpose Officers, CPOs.
As humans have both lower and higher needs and they must fulfill the lower needs to reach the higher ones. Businesses are no different; they must have their basic lower needs met before reaching the higher ones.
Most people spend their lives in pursuit of discovering their passions. The fact is that purpose ignites passion not vice versa. People try hard to ignite their passions, but they fail. Knowing what you truly stand for sparks off passion. Nelson Mandela’s purpose, Former President of South Africa was to end apartheid and achieve freedom […]
