The value of speaking out, and how to actively counter a culture of silence. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly” – Mahatma Gandhi Over the last few weeks, our HR team members have been hosting small group workshops across our businesses and geographies to discuss The Ndiema Way […]
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Haier’s radical management model, designed for the Internet age, cuts through bureaucracy and allows innovation to shine through. As companies get larger, one of the big challenges that they face is how to balance scale with agility. In order to leverage the benefits of scale, companies introduce systems, processes and additional layers of management. Unfortunately, […]
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In an increasingly volatile business arena, agility is key to competitive advantage. “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent” – Bill Gates It is no surprise that volatility is the new normal. Fast-paced changes, new forms of competition, macro-economic uncertainties, and technology-enabled disruptions are making the terrain more complex […]
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Beyond award ceremonies: how to make your team members feel valued on an ongoing basis. It probably is obvious to you that people who feel valued perform at much higher levels than those who don’t. And team members also naturally tend to look for tangible proof that they are valued. Just like in any relationship, […]
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Insecurity can become a leader’s Achilles heel. I still remember my first day in business school. Everyone else seemed to be smarter and more accomplished than I. And I remember feeling quite insecure and wondering whether I was an admissions mistake! Getting the occasional bouts of insecurity is nothing unusual. At one point or the […]
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Shift the focus from past failure to future success. We have recently rolled out our annual review process for the year. Over the next few weeks, we will be spending time with our team members in detailed discussions on their performance for the year gone by. This is also when we step back to take […]
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Identify the actual reasons behind your team’s failure, and enable their future success. I was recently chatting with one of our leaders. He was feeling frustrated. He felt that while he and his team had come up with some ambitious plans, his team wasn’t able to achieve those plans. Several team members were faltering in their execution. […]
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How can we build a great sales team that hits the bull’s-eye, time after time? Consumers are engaging with brands in amazingly new ways and technology is profoundly changing how we sell. In this evolving landscape, the role of sales becomes even more crucial. And for our sales team and our approach to be a differentiator, […]
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Expressing gratitude makes us better leaders and happier humans. Last Thursday, the US celebrated its annual Thanksgiving holiday. Since the early 1600s, this holiday has been associated with expressing thanks and appreciation to near and loved ones. Today, it is among the busiest weekends for travel; highways get clogged with traffic as people head to […]
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How to model and reinforce integrity, beyond the rulebooks. You will agree that integrity is the bedrock of Ndiema as Company. It is intrinsic to who we are and it has held us in very good stead for nearly 5 years now. To most of us, integrity is probably associated with ethics and morals. And about […]
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