Insights
The latest industry trends, best practices, news and insights from the Sokoni Capital team.
Are business people good political leaders?
Observing business and political leadership in many facets such as health, economy, environment, human rights, and technology, I wonder if business leadership is different from political leadership. Sometimes business leaders venture into politics. Some examples of...
Embracing reading culture for continuous personal development
To read or not to read, why or why not? Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, said, “Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States of America...
Personal details you should or shouldn’t include on your CV
Are there personal details that one should or shouldn’t include on a CV? Personal details section constitutes the opening and compulsory part of a CV. For all intense and purposes, it serves as brief introductory section with easy to read personal contact details...
Back to basics; simple and salient features of application letter for employment
A letter is a written message from one person or group of people to another through a channel of communication such as paper and electronic. Nowadays, paper based letters are getting less and less as many people prefer to use the internet hence electronic mails...
Unpacking expatriation
The word expatriate originates from Latin with ex meaning out of and patria meaning native country. Therefore, expatriate is a worker who lives and works outside his/her native country, either independently or as a work assignment scheduled by employer. An elitist...
The importance of appointment letter
After successful interview and selection process, employer makes an offer of employment to successful candidate. The offer is in the form of a letter, hence the term offer letter. The letter informs a successful candidate that he/she has been selected for a position...
Workplace politics
Individual views about politics vary relative to one’s situation. Some people would say ‘politics is a dirty game’. Politics is everywhere and it is everything. Does that make politics normal? One of the greatest philosophers, Aristotle defined politics as ‘affairs of...
Are business people good political leaders?
Are you letting yourself down by the way you dress, walk and talk?
I often come across people making comments such as ‘so and so is Managerial material or so and so is Presidential material’. The opposite is also true, ‘so and so is not Managerial material and so and so is not Presidential material’. So what does that really mean?...
Approach taken to recruit and manage ‘general’ workers is all wrong.
Recently, I found myself discussing with colleagues on how it has become a nightmare to find good gardeners, and housemaids let alone farm and factory workers. By and large these categories of workers are labelled ‘labourers’. Decisions made by such employees are...
Financial literacy or illiteracy, the choice is yours.
For some people setting annual personal goals has become a ritual that has to be fulfilled. For others it’s for the fun of it. There are some other people who believe it’s a worst of time because things will just fall into place as the year progresses. In this day and...
Dealing with under-performance and poor performance in the workplace
Year end is that time when many employees and line managers undertake annual performance appraisals. For some it’s like a boxing match between line manager and employee. Ideally performance management process should be smooth with limited hiccups in terms of what...