There is a phrase I have come to respect more than almost any other in this business, and it is one most people are afraid to say out loud. “Not yet.” In a culture where building your own house is treated as one of life’s biggest milestones, right up there with marriage and sending your […]
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In many Ghanaian workplaces, seniority carries enormous weight, and for good reason. We respect experience. We lower our voices when the longest-serving person in the room begins to speak. “Ten years in the service” is said with a certain pride, and often it is well deserved. But there is a quiet question that very few
Time Served Isn’t Expertise: Why Years on the Job Don’t Equal Growth Read More »
Nana Yeboah renewed her membership with the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance for the ninth year running last month. She did it the way she always does: an email reminder lands in her inbox, she transfers the fee from her Barclays account, and a receipt arrives a few minutes later. By lunchtime she has
Passive vs. Active Membership: Which One Are You? Read More »
Kofi will tell you he is not the kind of person who complains. He has spent eleven years as a procurement analyst in Tema, and in that time he has never missed a deadline, never made a costly error, and never once been described by a manager as anything less than “reliable.” So when a
Competence, Relationships, Reputation: The Three-Part Formula for Career Advancement Read More »
