Who moved your cheese?

October 1, 2009 by Milton Kamwendo · Comment
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If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies. The crawling worm of today is the beautiful butterfly of tomorrow – only if the worm is willing to change. Not all adversity is bad – particularly if we are benefiting from it. What we mourn about is perhaps a blessing for someone. The songs we wish to silence are perhaps someone’s flavour of the party. However, what is certain in all life is that change happens – no one is immune to change and nothing can ever remain the same. To make enemies fast we must try changing things. To make enemies of posterity we must preserve the status quo. Read more

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Nurse Your Greatness – Youth is an Asset

September 9, 2009 by Milton Kamwendo · Comment
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Two weeks ago I celebrated my birthday. One more year has gone past. I had a lot to think about but perhaps the most important issue was tracing my growth and greatness journey. I looked at things I should have been that I put off until some opportune later moment that never was to be. I reflected on what I was told I could not do. I looked at the amount of time I lost thinking that opportunities are located somewhere else where I had never been. I now realize that greatness must be nursed; and that the youth are an important asset of any nation. Youth is not a time of life but an attitude to life.
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Managing Fear

March 10, 2009 by Milton Kamwendo · 3 Comments
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Perhaps the biggest limitation that humans face is fear. Fear freezes the flow of ideas, torments and disables. We just cannot afford to sacrifice the future on the altar of fear. Until we move beyond our fear we will never grow. Snakes shed when they grow too big for their skin, comparable to the way humans outgrow clothing. Read more

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Things That Do Not Change

November 25, 2008 by Innov8motivation · 8 Comments
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We all lined up in our khaki crisp uniforms that still smelt fresh. We were excited and afraid. We felt intimidated but hopeful. We giggled and some cried and refused to move. Then came the tall elderly man who seemed to have silencing authority – it was his majesty – the headmaster. We all kept quiet and clung close to the people that had brought us to our first taste of school. That was 30 years ago on my first day at school in Bulawayo when my mother took me to Masuku Primary School. This was the first major change of my life and little did I know that this township school would be my home for seven years and would groom and develop me in many ways. It would bequeath to me many precious childhood memories and shape me in many ways.
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A Spectacle for managing change

September 22, 2008 by Milton Kamwendo · 2 Comments
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Change is one of the constants in life. In Africa, particularly in Zimbabwe at present change is happening at an accelerated pace. What some people call fast is really slow in comparison to changes in a hyperinflationary environment where the current rate of inflation in in excess of 12million% per annum. That is not an exaggeration by an understatement.

Whenever we have to deal with change at times it is difficult to know where to start or what to do. I came across a little book on change that I enjoyed reading entitled Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. The book using the time testing method of teaching, the story, outlines the 8 steps to change. I outline these steps below: Read more

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