“Education teaches languages and allows people communicate with each other according to positions in society.” Education has often been considered the greatest driver of social and economic mobility as attributed to the opportunities individuals are exposed to by the virtue of being educated. This is a bold argument that stands the test of time. However, […]
Last week was a reflective one deliberating with my team, colleagues and friends working with different organizations and teams on corporate dynamics. The focus of our discussions to a great extent have been on the performance of different companies with regard to the abilities and perspectives of the very employees of these corporations. At an
“Not giving any feedback is easier than giving it. Anyone who goes out of their way to give you feedback should be appreciated for it.” – Anonymous In the last couple of weeks I have been taking courses in my professional development and one of the topics of interest has been feedback. As a norm
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“Despite the promise of prosperity, what modern capitalism is currently delivering is aggression, humiliation and fear: the Rottweiler Society. To achieve the promise, our sense of mutual regard has to be rebuilt. Pragmatism tells us that this process will need to be guided by context and evidence-based reasoning.” – Sir Paul Collier Capitalism – an
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“There are rare people who will show up at the right time, help you through the hard times and stay into your best times… Those are the keepers.” – Nausicaa Twila As mentioned in the last article, review of GRIT by Angela Duckworth, I alluded to a question that I was recently asked by a
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Drawing from Part 1 and Part 2, I’ve presented a case for why grit is important in helping us realize our potential and how as individuals we can play a critical role in developing grit in ourselves. However, as alluded to earlier, there is the place of the society in nurturing grit in others and supporting them realize
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“To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.” – Angela
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GRIT – a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual’s perseverance of effort combined with the passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). According to Angela Duckworth, the author of the book, GRIT is passion and sustained persistence applied toward long-term achievement, with no particular concern
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The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) over the last couple of years have been on a reform agenda including change from hospital insurance to health insurance fund. As these reforms drive much debate in the industry among service providers, policy makers, patients are to an extent not getting involved much. The cost of this is
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Success is a mystery but everyone wants to be successful in some way or the other as I wrote in this earlier article. Over the last week we’ve been accustomed to having Sakaja Johnson Arthur on our dailies and news briefing as a constant feature. This is attributed to the challenges ascertaining he has a degree which
