Aboisso Airlines’ Journey to Forecasting Excellence A BBC Documentary Narrative Prologue: Dawn Over the City The city of Abidjan stirs to life as the first rays of sunlight spill across the skyline, glinting off the glass façade of Aboisso Airlines’…

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Let’s talk careers Not sure who needs to read them but If it’s you I hope you enjoy it. Story 1: Kimbu – The Dawn of Ambition Kimbu sat at her desk, her laptop open to a dizzying array of tabs: job boards, online cou…

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Navigating Company Culture: A Marine Engineer’s Journey Written by Melvin Bosso, I was forty years old when I finally admitted to myself that the sea had become my only consistent address. Somewhere between Santiago de Chile and Vancouver, three days in…

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A Conversation on Leadership with Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela Written by Melvin Bosso… A fictional conversation Setting the Scene The room was quiet but warm, tall windows breathing in the scent of rain-soaked earth, soft jazz whispering in the background. Ne…

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Spin the Wheel, Leave a Mark In business, everyone wants to make their mark, but few stop to ask what kind of mark they’re leaving behind. “Spin the Wheel, Leave a Mark” isn’t about chasing short-term wins or quick paydays, it…

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Understanding Where External Help Truly Adds Value Written by Melvin Bosso, You will recognize the characters of the tv show Seinfeld George read the email from Tamia Professional Services for the fifth time in the hotel lobby.“Senior transformatio…

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Beyond One‑Dimensional Debates: The Discipline of Three‑Level Thinking Thinking is hard; arguing is harder; and arguing constructively is harder still.  When I was 16, growing up in the Netherlands amid rapid social change, I struggled to have conversations that were …

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Incompetence Is the Real Enemy How Great Leaders Design Teams That Stay Ahead of Failure Written by MB, Characters are all from the TV show Dr house (1) The conference room is half-lit, blinds half‑closed, a whiteboard scarred w…

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“The Blueprint for Tomorrow’s Aerospace Champion” Strategic Shoring, Scarce Talent, and Tier 4 Bottlenecks Written by MB, Ruben Fletcher adjusts the recliner so that his former CEO, George Comoé, can see the printed pages more easily. Ocean Aerosp…

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Signals in the Noise: How the Abobo Refinery Uses Variance Analysis to “WIN”? Written by MB At the heart of West Africa’s industrial corridor stands the Abobo Refinery, a vast organism of metal, motion, and measured amb…

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Under the Lilongwe Lights: What Football (soccer) Teaches About Work and Life Lilongwe is alive on the night of the World Cup final. The city hums like an orchestra before a grand performance: streetlights glowing over jacaranda-lined avenues, market stalls spilling out laug…

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Swinging Into the Future: A Playground Conversation About AI and Consulting In a playground setting, seasoned consultant James observes younger colleagues Oliver and Popeye discussing the transformative impacts of AI on their consulting work. They acknowledge AI’s ro…

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Four Questions Every Cost Transformation Leadership team Must Answer At the 2026 Jamestown AI-Powered Cost Transformation Conference, keynote speaker Paola Neba emphasizes the critical questions that define successful cost transformation. Instead of mere budgeting, …

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Dilemmas at the Top, Symptoms at the Bottom: Rethinking How Organizations Decide A 15-minute live podcast script concept for “Sophia’s Take on Business”, featuring Sophia King and Peter Katina . It blends tension, thought-provoking discussion, and audience-friendly framing.…

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Ripples, Not Heroes: How Jacqueline Learned to Design Organizations Beyond Individuals Jacqueline always said the beer tasted better in retirement. Fifteen years after they had both turned in their corporate badges, she and Christianne sat at the same mahogany bar where they had cele…

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Between Two Worlds (Part 2 –  First Conversation from the Middle) The Quiet Thread Between Worlds “Between Two Worlds” explored the subtle, often invisible life of middle managers, a role poised between the ambitions of executives and the realities of frontline t…

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Between Two Worlds: The Hidden Life of Middle Management (Part 1 – The Morning in Metz) I have spent most of my professional life in the space between decisions and action, where strategy meets execution and ambition collides with human reality. That delicate territory is what people …

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Unpacking the Challenges of a Modern Bottling Line using DILO’s? (Day In the Life Of) The first light of day barely pierced the fog coiling around the low hills along the Sassandra River as I pulled up to the brewery’s security gate at 5:10 a.m. The distant roar of the river was los…

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Tactical Harmony: How Four Systems Shape High-Performing Organizations This article explores how KPI, Skill, Action Log, and Master Plan collectively drive business excellence. Set amid a lively workplace debate, the narrative illustrates their ongoing interplay—KPI t…

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Beyond Stability: Using Disruption as an Engine for Value Creation and Strategic Alignment At the dynamic heart of Ashanti Steel’s sweeping transformation, I sat among voices both familiar and newly introduced—leaders, planners, relentless skeptics, and the engineers of change. The rooms…

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Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

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