In the grand theater of leadership, the spotlight often shines on the relentless pace, complex decisions, and high stakes. Leaders are often portrayed as naturally gifted navigators of these challenges. In our recent research at the Work Innovation Lab by Asana, in collaboration with Dr. Greg Wells, we sought to challenge this perception and establish a science-backed framework for effective leadership. Drawing on a comprehensive study of 6,000 leaders at several large global companies, we discovered that the strategies that define high-performing leaders mirror those adopted by top-performing athletes. As former competitive athletes ourselves, this insight was particularly exciting. Here…

Like Elon Musk or not (is there a middle ground?), it's hard not to respect his work ethic. Musk sometimes puts in 120-hour weeks, and says startup founders should put in 80-hour weeks. Clearly Musk likes to work, but he also thinks the way he uses some of those hours helps motivate his employees. According to Walter Isaacson, author of the acclaimed biography Jobs (and next month's Elon Musk), Musk likes military history, and applies some of its lessons to leadership. As Isaacson recently said: For example, he believes that wherever Napoleon was, that's where his armies would do best,…

Despite being the largest economy in Africa with an over 200 million human population and potentials to make fortunes, multinational companies are exiting Nigeria because of the high cost of doing business and lack of basic infrastructure, especially electricity. Experts, who noted that even though the ugly development predated the President Bola Tinubu government, said it was always good to bring the issue to the front burner, especially now that a new government was being formed for the new leaders to act fast and salvage the situation. Our correspondent reports that over time the multinational companies have been forced to…

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the unclaimed dividend figure has risen to N190 billion from N170 billion recorded as at December 2020. At a Virtual post Capital Market Committee (CMC) Meeting held yesterday, Director General of the SEC, Lamido Yuguda, linked the rising figure to irregularities in identity management and multiple subscriptions from investors. However, Yuguda stated that while the committee constituted by the SEC on identity management is working tirelessly to harmonise various databases of investors and facilitate data accuracy in the market, investors on their part have failed to claim their dividend. According to him, the…