Engaged minds

It Lenin once said, “Trust is good, but control is better”; after many years I overheard this redundant statement in a converaation happening in a lift! The conversation between the leader and the young managers was hilarious as it quickly focused on people performance and how controls ensured; the young managers (smilingly?) nodded. We had to alight however my thoughts on the value of 'trust' lingered. Controls are important for all organisations as they promote responsible behaviour and accountability. Many managers and leaders don't agree nor undermine the importance of 'trust' as education, globalisation, and information technology enables communication creates self awareness, and freedom of choice for people.  Trust is the invisible glue that binds the wall and the wallpaper. The invisibility and intangibility nature and the perceived loss of control is what deters many leaders and managers in deploying trust.  Modern leaders and managers believe that   tr...

Don't give up nor loose your confidence nor allow anyone to dent it!  Humans are a sum of our memories and learning experiences which makes us, who we are and what we may become. Our memory has limitless capacity, it is just we need to focus on learning, clear the clutter, learning, unlearning and retaining the good.  There isn't ‘bad memory’ or ‘good memory’; what we learn and retain is purely related to our attitudinal. Memory as a long retention tenor!  Memory neither decays not fades nor is experience redundant. Memory recall and implementation of ideas thereof is easy and within our self-control. Past memories can be recalled and ideas implemented easily; people just need the right stimuli, motivation, confidence, the context and circumstances. Our memories can be dented and damaged by external forces – physical forces and disease or people. The former is clinical and takes a long time to recover (sometime irrevocable) whereas latter...