Are you Developing Future Leaders?

“Everything rises and falls on leadership,” says John Maxwell. If this statement is true, then how do we ensure that those in leadership understand leadership and then lead as is expected of them? Assuming that those in leadership do understand leadership and are actually leading,...

Will You Avoid or Confront?

Whether we are dealing with under-performing employees, disagreeing with our spouse, negotiating with a dif­ficult client, or simply saying “no” or “I’m sorry”, we face difficult conversa­tions almost every day.The only way to appropriately handle conflict is to actually deal with it. The dilemma for...

Are you Ready for Change?

A change is as good as a rest’, so goes a common saying. Is this easier said than done? Does change bring rest or does it bring trouble with it? And if it does bring rest, why is change resisted with the same vigour its...

Are you Getting your Message Across?

The Online Business Diction­ary defines communica­tion as a two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only ex­change (encode-decode) infor­mation, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share mean­ing. In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places. In business,...

Failed Plan or Plan Failed

A proverb is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and revered, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. Whereas African Proverbs offer wisdom and poetry in just one sentence, the proverbs can convey wisdom, truth, a discovery...

Power of vision

When reading a past issue of Leadership Journal, I came across an advert by the Billy Graham Training Centre at the Cove. The following words in the advert caught my attention “Leading is easier when you know which way to go.” The more I reflected on...

How to Choose a Distributor

Achieving an effective distribution system with the widest coverage is the dream goal of any publisher. However, many publishers in developing countries do not achieve effective distribution chains even within their own countries. One reason for this is the inability of many a publisher to...

PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE

“Once upon a time….” These were words I heard often while sitting around a fire in the evening. Growing up in the countryside, the evenings were spent around the fireplace as we waited for dinner to be prepared and served. The room would be dimly...

E-Commerce: Engine for Growth in Publishing

Publishers who ignore technological advances do so at their own peril. One of the significant advances in the third millennium is the development of the Internet, which has revolutionized the manner and speed of conducting business. Through computer network technology enhanced by telecommunications, electronic commerce...