Fredrick N. Oduori, PhD

Check out my latest article: Reimagining Africa’s Tourism and Hospitality Landscape: Leadership, Strategy, and Sustainable Impact linkedin.com/pulse/reimagini… via @LinkedIn

GREAT Leaders are MOST effective when they’re able to MOVE their people FORWARD from where they are to where they have not been, THOUGHTFULLY and PRODUCTIVELY while transcending the FAMILIAR. Interestingly, they are NOT always in front, they also know WHO to follow.

HEROES are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my #community, and it's my #responsibility to make it #better.

Although #behaviorchange is a skill leaders who want to succeed amid near-constant #organizationalchange need to develop, organizational change require leaders to pivot to #newpriorities, delegate old ones, and shift the way they #interact with their #teams.

Although #wages have been spreading out across workers over time, has the #productivity distribution also spread out across worker #skilllevels over time?

"Since 2001, the share of #employment in occupations heavy in #nonroutine cognitive and #sociobehavioral skills has increased from 19 to 23 percent in emerging economies and from 33 to 41 percent in advanced economies." - WB elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/1…

Great forces are transforming the very nature of work: #technology, #innovation and ever fiercer global #competition. To keep pace, many organizations have had to rethink their #workforcestrategies, often making changes that are #disruptive & #painful. wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-t…

A new mini-industry has mushroomed that has defied the broader slump in #tech & investors are going nuts about it. The GENERATIVE artificial intelligence (AI) underpinned by FOUNDATION models giving #Chatgpt & other similar #AIs their intelligence.

Africa represents less than 3% of the GLOBAL air traffic, & over the past 15 years, the continent has had the LOWEST level of #marketconsolidation compared with other regions. #Consolidation & #collaboration are crucial to the success of African airlines.  theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/bus…

During periods of #turbulence - whether rapid ecological, technological, ideological or jarring economic dislocation - #management of the STATUS QUO is usually the #riskiest course of all. Such times call forth TRANSFORMATIONAL #leaders: either statesman, prophet or BOTH.

YESTERDAY, I stayed up until MIDNIGHT not to make sure the old year leaves, but TO SEE the new year in. Now yesterday is gone and we have only today! Today is the first BLANK page of a 365-page book. Let us BEGIN.

Israel’s Tourism Ministry has just launched an initiative to track the #mobilitypatterns of foreign & domestic tourists from the country’s cellphone companies for #crowdmanagement and #infrastructureinvestment. #destinationmanagement #visitorexperience jpost.com/israel-news/articl…

There is urgent need for people-centered, market-driven & private sector-led @AfCFTA integration with citizen sensitization and regular capacity building activities as we explore the road to #freetrade opportunities brilliantly and regionally disguised as #tradebarriers.

"Kenya’s economy has grown on average by 5.0 per cent annually over the last decade save for the Covid-19 contraction, but the benefits have NOT been equally distributed, and the GAP between rich and poor is RISING." - BDA businessdailyafrica.com/bd/e…

CREATION of a #regionalTourism system requires intervention of various LEVELS of the government in #TourismMarketing and #destinationmanagement at regional levels, as well as engaging the #HostCommunity and the #PrivateSector in regional tourism activities.

The single biggest societal consequence of the dual trends of corporate acceptance of #remotework and people’s increased interest in #digitaleconomy jobs is the potential geographic spread of #opportunity. hbr.org/2022/08/who-gets-to-…

Although the shift to REMOTE & HYBRID work has pushed many DECISIONS that might once have been made exclusively on paper onto digital platforms, people are LESS likely to choose the virtuous or responsible option when making a decision on a digital tablet than when using paper.