First point to note is that corruption can only happen in the context of an office or a service provided by that office. Corruption is abuse of office or the deviation from a standard to facilitate illegitimate personal gain. Just as there can be no photocopy without an original, corruption cannot exist without a legitimate service. So, if you fix the service,…..
I think conflicts or problems are inevitable since we do not know all there is to know about life. Coach Joe Caruso said it this way, “we are born naked. Naked means no pockets. No pockets means no manual.” I add that, no manual means we learn as we go. But life does not wait for us to gather all learning before it makes demands on us so we are also required to move with what we already know.
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If you were appointed to run a public institution that is corruption-ridden and delivering very poor services, how will you go about turning that institution around?
Is there a process you can follow to ensure you get the right results in as short a time as possible? Are there steps that will ensure visible, deliberate and desirable outcomes that your customers (the public) and your staff (public servants) can support and celebrate?
When faced with corruption, we are often tempted…..
It was not until over a year after her 2008 kidnapping that I began to accept that my brother’s wife was not going to come home. It took some other family members longer. In the early weeks after she was kidnapped, in the heat of the Niger Delta militancy, we had been involved in a lot of frenetic activity to get her out, negotiating, speaking with the police, militants, etc and there was some progress. Her driver and the friend…..