Jose Mourinho Sacked, Some Lessons on Management!

My club Chelsea FC has decided to let go of Jose Mourinho, I'm a happy fan that he is gone and I hope they signed an agreement that he will never come back. A lot of folks like him, which is understandable because most football fans enjoy the hooligan type of engagement of which Jose Mourinho was a master. However in his downfall there are management lessons for all and some are as follows:

Despite Achieving Much, Be Humble

Being humble makes you identify with all classes of people, the poor, the rich, the educated, the ignorant. Jose was not humble, humility is a word which doesn't exist in his vocabulary judging by how he viewed those with less achievements than himself. Anyone in management who behaves like him is guaranteed to fall and fall dismally one day.

Resist to Be Proud

Pride is good when it is left inwardly, once you start throwing it around it can become toxic. Here is a man whose pride reached the heavens, sadly it became a trap. There were incidents he could have saved himself by saying

Entrepreneurship, Why Many Don't Do It

Everywhere in the world governments are trying to encourage their people to create jobs for other people. This solves a huge problem which confronts politicians during their bids for another office term. The job numbers Barack Obama administration put out together with strong Wall Street run could have signalled death knell for Republican ‎politicians as he made a good ground for Democrats. However in most of the world politicians are confronted by a people desperate for jobs, calls for entrepreneurship will be ignored. This puts government in a precarious situation & most resort to pumping money into infrastructure projects creating short term employment and temporary reprieve. Having been applying my mind to entrepreneurship for a long time I now understand why people would rather work for a pittance. Below are some of the reasons why many won't be bothered about setting up a business.

The Man & Women in Offices

For entrepreneurs to get business started they must register through some government bodies and here you find full time employees with little or no understanding of being in entrepreneur shoes. They will take their time while you have no time to waste & need to run. In a country like Zimbabwe it's worse because they need a bribe to do the work and the system is paper based taking up to 3 months to register a company properly. On the other hand rules for entrepreneurship are crafted by people who sometimes have never attempted any kind of business; their obsession is putting together

How To Be a Great Employee

Majority of the people wake up every day going to a place of work, they trade their hours for a salary or wage. People spend most of their time awake at some place of work; over time I realized workplaces can become a source of frustration and stress. Most people never strive to be great employees or they just swim with the tide, wherever it may lead. However what the crowd endorse as true or the norm in most instances; is the wrong thing altogether. Here are tips on how you can elevate yourself to be the greatest employee:

Never Complain About Your Salary

This is the easiest trap people find themselves & one most people will enjoy staying in. I have worked in many organizations and the first thing you hear is people murmuring about their salaries. As a new person most times you are content with what you bargained for but it will not take time to join the murmurs or the crowd. In most instances people feel the need to belong & find acceptance, what better way to gain this than joining them. But murmuring about salary increase de-motivates and saps energy, after all most increases which would

Supreme Court Termination of Employment Ruling: Storm in Tea Cup?

I have been inundated with social media posts of people raising an alarm that the regulations governing Employer/Employee relationship have been thrown into disarray by the Zimbabwe Supreme Court judgment. The Supreme Court’s 4 judges in a case of Zuva Petroleum vs Don Nyamande & Kingston Donga arrived at the decision that, “the common law position placing employees and employers on an equal footing was still operational”. As a result of this Zuva Petroleum had a right to terminate employment and pay the two employees an amount equal to 3 months’ salary. The two employees had hitherto been offered voluntary retrenchment packages which they turned down, it was at the stage of compulsory retrenchment that the employer abandoned the process and paid the employees 3 months’ salary.

There was an immediate outcry with The Herald newspaper headline saying, “Shock ruling onjob termination…judgment a threat to job security, say labour experts”. Newsday was less animated just stating “Ex-Zuva Petroleum managers lose case”. Alex Magaisa weighed in with his blog post titled, “How the Supreme Court judgmenthas left the employee exposed”. I am no labour lawyer and legal expert but retrenchment is some close to my heart after having represented employees in one grueling case armed with only my Labour Relations knowledge from IPMZ studies.

Day 2, 25 April 2015: Good Bye Anaesthetic, Hello Pain

After the surgery I felt much better, my leg was quiet and felt nothing except a numbness, must have been the wonder drugs they use during operation. I was given pain tablets, I took them even though I felt no need for them. But the nurses knew what was coming so they needed to prepare me ahead, that was proactive of them. As I woke up to a Saturday I got chance to know my neighbour who had a knee problem, he was a Jewish man who must have been in his 60s. The hospital has nurses on duty who check on you every hour, this made it hard to sleep, I am a light sleeper so any shuffling will send me wide awake. I heard the Jewish ask about me to the nurses if I was ok because I had been quiet, only my brain was racing replaying the events. So maybe he thought this fellow could be dead or immobile, the nurse reassured him that I'm alright. God bless him, Jews are a special type of people,if anyone ever needed proof that God does really exist he must watch Jews or check the most influential Jewish people & how they made it, you will understand that the blessings of Abraham still carry them to this day. 

When God Fishes You Out of Miry Clay

‎‎There is nothing like a Blogger with a lot of free time, it can happen for a few minutes because there is always a lot of thoughts rushing through the head. I happen to have a lot of free time and guess what, I'm going to blog it away. You might be wondering why I have so much free time when there is so much to do, well I was involved in an accident, a bus accident. So I might as well start blogging about that experience.

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Day One: That Drizzly Morning Ride

I took my bus at the right time about 0635 in the morning, it was a chilly and damp Friday, so I had my nice and fluffy jacket for warmth, a pair of blue jeans and those shoes that look like All Stars but cheaper ones. I never convinced myself to buy All Stars for R650, no that's a ripoff, for that amount I would rather have Adidas Superstar 2 but it's hard to find the scarlet and white I so love. So I settled for these cheap knockoffs meanwhile. The bus driver was that quiet and careful gentleman, never in a hurry and always on time. I cringe reading people judge him as reckless on news websites, they label him a careless and speeding driver, how wrong they are. I went onto the bus, exchanged greetings with him and put my bus tag for a ticket and proceeded to sit in a comfy seat towards the back, the one behind the wheel with leg room of a first class flight on an A380 plane. It's exam season so I took out my Unisa textbook and started to read. As the bus was about to leave the driver asked one lady standing outside if she was not going. She told him I'm waiting for Mr. M's bus which is coming to park just behind you. This lady I call her Madame Speaker Sir, she is a happy and chatty soul, Mr. M is the driver of bus number 85 and also member of parliament, along with other 3 youthful guys, they bring the bus alive on those trips especially back home after a hard day's work. So she hurried to Mr. M's bus and we pulled off.