Doing Business
Dealing with mediocrity 3
Further to the issue of job performance, which we saw over the past two weeks, is the product of individual attributes, work effort and...
Doing Business
Dealing with mediocrity 2
Last week we saw that individual performance depends on the combination of individual attributes of the worker, work effort of the individual and the...
Doing Business
Dealing with mediocrity
Why it is that workers don’t perform as well as they could and what can we to get them to give their best for...
Doing Business
Happy New Year Deal with it!
The past few weeks I have had to deal with some minor medical challenges. Stubborn as I am, I brushed them aside and delayed...
Doing Business
Gender and nutrition
Population groups vulnerable to malnutrition are central to strategies aiming to improving their nutrition status. Women and girls are more likely to live in...
Doing Business
Clean up after yourself
I have a friend in the Netherlands who is a jack of all trades. He is in construction and does a lot of maintenance...
Doing Business
Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
We have great ambitions. We want to see sustained double digit economic growth; we want to end poverty and hunger; we want to create...
Doing Business
Mind the small print
Contracts serve to record an agreement on principle and codifies what parties have promised to do. It also implies consent to the agreement and...