When it comes to developing any skill, it takes time and effort to master the trade. Nothing happens overnight. For example, no one can be a professional writer or an author by writing a couple of paragraphs. If patience is lost, you lose the ability to make headway. Patience needs discipline and the opposite is […]

Ultimately, a leader’s job is merely to inspire people to do great things and look after them while doing so. If you are not that leader, then it is advisable to reconsider your leadership. It does not cost money to do that, but it does require a radical behavioral change in putting people first before […]

The global educational system fails students everyday by teaching them that making mistakes is a stigma. In real life, successful people who have made it know that mistakes are an essential part of the journey. Learning from mistakes ensures long-lasting success. It is the most astounding thing that they regularly master. Failure teaches success.

If an organization is purposeless, their vision statement is a bunch of words that does not add up. It is born dead. Without a clearly articulated purpose, the organization cannot command its leadership responsibility. Purpose is the difference that you are making in the world. Vision is how the world would look like when you […]

The only real challenge to achieving great leadership is to understand it. Leadership should not be blindly pursued; it should be first understood. If purpose is not a fundamental part of the equation, leadership will return wrong results.

This is natural, because culture is the sum of purpose, values and principles that are upheld and cherished in the organization. If you do not smell purpose and its values, then the leaders have corporately manufactured the culture. Culture speaks purpose and purpose speaks leadership. What language does your organization speak?

Branding is not the marketing tricks and tactics that are performed to attract more customers. Branding aims at reflecting the identity of the brand. The brand reputation will be exposed if the brand does not demonstrate the value that generates and the impact, it creates.   The brand is not just a product or service, […]

If you are 100% focused on what greatly matters, the result will be certainly amazing. A little distraction weakens your position. Some people are good multitaskers. Is their final product outstanding or mediocre? This is the question that measures their output. The best strategy is focus. Are you focused on what matters?  

In most of the catch ups that I do with Jane, a friend of mine who is an HR compliance officer, she talks about the fact that her role makes her feel unhappy. She is a very passionate HR professional, but the problem is the leadership in the company as she stated. she feels very […]

Working with different organizations in reassessing their cultures and empowering their people, I have reached a conclusion that the major causes of failure that are found in most organizations can be cascaded down to two: The overwhelming influence of management thinking. The inability to understand and apply the right model of leadership. Do you think […]