What should be on the minds of executives is how they can effectively measure and manage performance at all levels within their organisations. Organisations need to design performance incentives schemes that drive business success. The best option in rewarding employees is to invest in the development of variable…

The guidelines for the “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM) approved by parties to the 1992 UN climate change agreement of November 2001 in Marrakech, Morocco, allows industrialised countries to invest in carbon emission reductions wherever it is cheapest globally. Most of these reductions are through renewable energy, energy efficiency,…

 While some felt that I should also have examined the economic, social, technological and legal issues, one person accused me of being a ZANU-PF sympathiser who was advancing a “discredited cause of rushed elections”. Well, in this line of work, it is seldom possible neither feasible nor desirable…

The Act is bad because it scares away investments instead of promoting good economic ethics. Last year there could have been a significant increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) but the Act was not helpful. Our leaders must alter this Act to improve the investment climate. Our leaders…

 This horrific event is being traced to some hidden American psychic maladies which come to the surface in troubling times like these. They are part of their demonic past, which they have tried to overcome but keeps on coming back.We remind our readers that Loughner, though a nut,…

I mean the year 2011 does not seem to be quite a good year for the African continent. Do you see what is happening in the Ivory Coast? That is a harbinger of many things to come. After failing to effect regime change here, the West has decided…

 Finance Minister Tendai Biti has already made his own projections known for 2011 and is quoted as having characterised it as a potentially ‘tough year’ in his Facebook entry. For others, including this writer, it may be early days to have a definitive position on what 2011 promises…

I was then reminded of my last conversation with Eddison Zvobgo.That conversation left me “shooken quite a bit (black American English). He said, “Ken, in America, people make money and then go into politics in order to exercise political power. It is a game with no effect on…

 As you are all aware Cdes, this is an election year . . . I mean it has to be an election year, whether the people like it or not, because our party has some dignity, some legitimacy, to restore and we cannot wait one year longer!What this…

 Essentially, I do not see the possibility of this intimated election this year given the supposed road-map that needs to be pursued in order to result in an election. Though ZANU-PF has come out strongly in favour of an early election and the MDC-T has posed its readiness…