Business and Economics

When Governance Becomes Theatre – Why NAMCODE Is Often Performed Instead of Practised Most organisations today don’t suffer from a Lack of Governance Frameworks.They suffer from a lack of Governance Courage. In Namibia, we often hear that the NAMCODE is Outdated, Misunderstood, or too Idealistic. That’s rarely true. NAMCODE is NOT broken. The problem is how it is used. Or more accurately, how it is Performed. […]

Power Still Matters – What Global Energy Politics Reveal About Africa’s Vulnerability and Namibia’s Moment! Every few years, the world is reminded of something it prefers to forget. That for all the talk of rules, institutions, and norms, Power Still Matters. Recent events around Venezuela, regardless of how one interprets motives, have reopened an uncomfortable conversation.

When Leaders Don’t Understand the Work, Decisions Become Dangerous I always doubted it and never thought it was real but there is a quiet problem in many Technical and Engineering Organizations. It doesn’t show up in strategy documents.It doesn’t appear on dashboards.And it rarely gets discussed honestly in boardrooms. That problem is this:– Decisions are

The CEO Job Has Outgrown Milton Friedman – Why Corporations Can’t Exist Only to Maximize Shareholder Value Anymore For decades, many companies behaved as if they had one purpose: Maximize Shareholder Value.That idea became common sense after Milton Friedman famously argued that a corporation’s only social responsibility is to increase profits within the boundaries of

Corporate Bullying Is Real — And It’s Hiding Behind Leadership Titles When people hear the word bullying, they imagine schoolyards, not boardrooms.They picture teenagers, not executives.And they definitely don’t imagine CEOs, executive, managers, or directors using their authority to control, intimidate, or dehumanize people. But corporate bullying is real. And the worst part? Most companies