Every project is like an uphill battle where waste, failure, and loss occur. What’s important is to learn from those painful experiences to build organizational capabilities. It takes courage to admit mistakes before moving on to learn from them, a process that heavily depends on the organizational culture. Renowned entrepreneur Richard Branson said, “Don’t be […]
Yes, HR fails many times in the startup industry, that’s no surprise. But why does it fail in startups and succeed in companies or corporates? Before all that let’s take a journey back in time to the 18th century, when HR emerged during the industrial revolution it simply focused that people are the success of […]
When hiring, employers look for experience to make their company flourish but does the amount of experience equal the innovation and contribution to a company’s success? What should we really look for in employees and how can we identify it early on? The recent pandemic has impacted many organizations, forcing them to rework the way […]
Through the ups and downs that are part of life, businesses find themselves facing times of uncertainty with a considerable effort to stay adrift – it takes a vast effort to just stay in business until those times pass. When we say swimming against the tide – that is just a trivial simile to the […]
To read parts 1 – 5, click here. The Meta Programme covered in this article is Same – Different Imagine each Meta Programmes as a scale, with the most extreme example at each end of the scale. Some people will be extremely ‘same’ while others are extremely ‘different’, but many will be somewhere along the […]
While we like to consider ourselves adaptable to change and versatile to deal with it, in reality, it scares most people. Why? Well, because we fear that we might lose what is associated with that change. Even when we know that we will benefit from the change (such as giving up smoking or exercising more), […]
Everyone in my opinion can be a leader. You don’t need to hold that title to be considered a leader, nor do you need to have that prestigious accreditation behind your name. We lead by example, by modeling core values, being a person of your word and maintaining trust. By showing empathy and being an […]
In my last engagement, I was commissioned by the managing director to find new pockets of opportunity to expand the organization and by default the revenue. It was an interesting request as the organization was doing well, actually very well and had grown from a million dirham business to a multimillion dollar business. The results […]
Every budding entrepreneur enters the market with a whole lot of excitement mixed with fear. The fear of failure often stems from the uncertainty about how well the business will perform. The fear is often aggravated because of limited resources, the presence of market competition, and the inability to scale operations or retain clients. You […]
They say that no man is an island. This is especially true in entrepreneurships and startups. A lot of entrepreneurs think that building a startup requires only one’s resilience and knowledge. To an extent, that is true. But one can only achieve so much on their own. Sure, you can get a startup up and […]
