When Procurement Smells Fishy

Grrr … argh! I could feel a slight annoyance welling up. Maybe it was because I needed another coffee to really get in my groove for the day. Or perhaps it was due to the lingering peevishness I still carried from the earlier conversation with my mistress, when she...

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When a Blessing Becomes a Curse

Many African countries are blessed with natural resources, like crude oil, gold and diamonds, which should assure a decent life for the woman on the street. But those resources have become a curse of sorts. Leadership failure, greed, tribalism, corruption and...

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“Show Me the Money!” or “Show Me the Ethics!”

On the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, I posted this short piece on LinkedIn: ### China may be trying to rewrite history by attempting to obliterate all traces of the Tiananmen Square event.  But history itself teaches us that truth has an annoying habit...

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The Growing Case For More and Better Procurement

Procurement capability in most organizations is hampered because purchasing decisions are beset by organizational challenges and “soft” issues. In this extract from Sigi Osagie’s new book Procurement Mojo, he discusses why Procurement still has no de facto seat in the...

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