In his book “Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy”, Edmondson identifies scoping, structuring and sorting as the critical steps necessary to create successful teams.
The first step in any teaming scenario is scoping out the challenge, determining, what expertise is needed, tapping collaborators, and outlining roles and responsibilities. Continue reading How to Create Successful Teams at Work
Pap Smear- This procedure is simple and prevents cancer of the cervix. It is recommended to Continue reading Medical Tests to Aid Longevity
Teaming is a process that is birthed when teams are encouraged to take the initiative, fail and learn from the mistakes made to achieve better performance. Teaming would necessarily lead to failure even when on the way to extraordinary successes.
Adopting a teaming mindset ultimately enriches decision-making abilities, promotes a robust organizational culture, encourages innovation at all levels of the organization, promotes employee participation in key organizational activities, and increases employee motivational levels. All these contributes to high organizational performance and corporate profitability. Continue reading The Difference Between Teams and Teaming
In his cover story ‘The Focused Leader’ the Harvard Business Review 2013, Goleman stresses that focus is crucial to great leadership. He argues that attention is the basis of the most essential of leadership skills–emotional, organizational, and strategic intelligence. Continue reading Focus is Crucial to Great Leadership
A certain young man named Joe walks towards you. He is dressed in baggy Jeans dropped way down below his waistline behind, and in front, he is grabbing his groin area as if his balls would fall off if he let go as he bounces left and right in a swagger that is peculiar to the hip hop culture. Joe has Gonorrhea but you don’t know it. As he reaches your position he shakes your hand in a friendly gesture. You later hold your penis as you urinate later in the day. Now, you have a urethral discharge, is it from Joe’s handshake?
Anita has a foul-smelling vaginal discharge. Could it have come from the public toilet she used two weeks ago when she was hard pressed at the shopping mall? Continue reading Handshake Gonorrhea and STI from Toilet Seats
A. The standard operating procedures of your organization need to change constantly to respond to challenges and external factors. Continue reading A, B, Cs of Strategic Leadership
Antibiotics are a double-edged sword. Many don’t know this hence they seek for and use antibiotics at the slightest fever or ill health. In developed countries, it is the patient cajoling the doctor for antibiotics but in less developed countries, people buy antibiotics from stores as one would buy candy without a prescription. Antibiotics can cause harm Continue reading Sometimes, Antibiotic Use Can Cause Harm
We all get back pain from time to time but there are back pains that may spell danger. If you have any of these red flags with a back pain, then you need to act quickly. Urine or stool incontinence, urine retention, weakness in both legs, progressive numbness in both legs, fever, unrelenting or Continue reading Back Pain…the worst-case scenarios
Many years ago, a gentleman who was in his early forties presented to the emergency with what he described as ‘a broken penis’. He was having sex with his wife when suddenly he heard a ‘pop’ sound. This was followed by sudden pain and immediate loss of erection. When I asked what sex position he was in when this happened, he said ‘his wife was on top’. That was my suspicion all along. Penile fractures occur more during sex with the woman on top position. Continue reading When The Penis Fractures
Many years ago I remember seeing a young woman who had just been diagnosed with a stroke and the reason was because she was on a birth control pill. Continue reading Before you take those Birth Control Pills…….