“Can all children love mathematics?” In answering this question, I will have to give an account of my personal experience as a child. I was a child that loved Maths from an early age and I have my father to thank for that. Though I...
Consider this…, in October 1999 the Enron board voted to suspend the organisation’s code of ethics to enable CFO, Andrew Fastow, head two controversial partnerships that kept significant company debt off of the company’s books. The particular code required that no Enron employee be involved...
The Hobbesian Theory is largely about man helping himself. In the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes postulates that to leave man in his natural state would be to exist in a state of anarchy in which everyone would do whatever he wanted, even where detrimental to his...
If the average Nigerian business executive today was asked to identify the top HR challenge facing most organizations – without doubt the response is likely to be the attracting of adequate personnel from the relatively dismal talent pool, available in the country. However, surprisingly “recruitment...
As Nigeria engages in economic reforms that would translate it from a third world country into one of first or second status reckoning, various public sector led initiatives have been embarked on, each with varying degrees of success. These are all commendable. However at a micro-level,...
Corporate folklore is replete with stories of iconic Chairmen/ CEOs whose egos provided their compass, readily overriding common sense and decisions for the common good. Eventually, in most of the cases, such leaders eventually rode their organizations into oblivion, leaving psychological and emotional distress well...