What have you learnt so far?

Magic is created.

Twenty-twenty-one has begun in magical style: slow and steady or quick and testy. Depending on where your focus lies, this era presents another opportunity for us to learn new skills and lessons for further advancement. Here are some three (3) lessons which helped me during the last half of 2020 and continues to prove useful since I became more aware of their application:

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1. Get literate. There might be magic words but first you must know how and when to apply them. Luckily there is more to literacy. Most business processes, demand in addition to core skills in a specialised area; a greater technological affinity. Companies are not only forced to transform but new companies need to be SMART. This includes empowered staff, effective data channelling, accessibility, and solutions that deliver. This can be overwhelming to more traditional approaches, but so is learning to read — until you make it more fun. Break-it-down. How does affect the overall goal? To know, one must be able to use, understand, manage, evaluate and apply technical information to given scenarios. Otherwise you will just be calling words … Or abbreviations.
2. People are magical! I have had the opportunity to work with some brilliant people, whizzes! Real time witches and wizards if we may. Having this experience, I realized quickly that this is not by chance. It is hard to become great but even harder to attract great people to you — to your cause. People appreciate good work. They also want to do meaningful work . The delivery of intrinisic value is integral at every level , therefore intentional open communication is like a spell which must be done ritualistically. The key ingedient being the ability to listen with compassion through the lifecycle of relations not just as an introduction.
3. Pressure is neccessary. We’ve heard many a successful business leader attest to the importance of an agile environment. Many sing to the tunes of ‘When we started, this business was nothing like we had originally planned. If it had not been for effect 1, effect 2 or a complete change in the global landscape of opportunities we would be ….’ not who they are today. Similarly, complexed problems presents golden opportunity for pressure to be applied in the form of ‘solution attention’. Since we already know what the goal is, the tools to use, the people to engage, then, how are we going to deliver? After asking how, consistently for weeks and weeks, this attention should be able to provide needed pressure to force flow. This helps to demystify abstraction and narrow problems down to specific solutions.

I have been continuously challenged in different areas of law, particularly in innovative business practices, e-commerce, information communication technology, data protection and cybersecurity, intellectual property, agritech and marketing (compliance branding and licensing). It has been thrilling to get more proficient with processes while making mistakes and applying the lessons moving forward. Now is the time to get happy with new information.