by Simon Vumbaca | Nov 13, 2023 | Articles
Today I was in Town and managed to catch up with a friend. This was an impromptu meeting. By many accounts my friend is a very successful businessman in his own right with a massive set of skills and an even longer list of achievements. He brilliantly sold his...
by Simon Vumbaca | Nov 9, 2023 | Articles
One of the beauties of growing old is that things are put into perspective. There is a tendency to look back at what was done, particularly when selective memory is applied and we tend to remember the good stuff and forget the bad, unless it was really painful....
by Simon Vumbaca | Nov 3, 2023 | Articles
Waking up every morning to news readers telling us how the basic services the state is supposed to deliver are not working and are losing money. Then you hear about how corporations are driving production prices down via their competitive processes, leaving the...
by Simon Vumbaca | Sep 25, 2023 | Articles
People often refers to the right person at the right time to do the right thing. This indicates the distant wish that things can be perfect for someone and their organisation. It is inevitably followed by: how lucky was that? Far from it, luck should not be part of...
by Simon Vumbaca | Mar 26, 2023 | Articles
Have you ever been in a meeting where the person you are talking to remains silent and you inexplicably feel logorrhoeic? Have you ever been in a meeting where someone was talking so much that you stopped listening? Let’s be honest – this has happened to most of...
by Simon Vumbaca | Mar 25, 2023 | Articles
Making decisions is the easiest thing. Making the right decision however less so! Decisions need to evaluate the risk they entail. Risk is an unpredictable that has a tendency to occur at the worst moment. Why is that ? How far shall one push it before the risk...