The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]
An International Dilemma
Sipping on a coffee at the Costa Coffee shop during a six hour transit at Doha Airport, I had an epiphany as I hazily gazed at the menu board before me. On the left side, the English menu board was written in the same style as Nero, Starbucks and Coffee Republic; with the coffee names, […]
Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways. Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They�re actively sabotaging their own […]
Lebanon free trade, blessing or curse?
Undeterred by the protracted political crisis, Lebanon will begin its third round of negotiations for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva next month, but civil society groups fear that the costs of accession could far outweigh the benefits of increased access to Western markets in the absence of a clearly defined national […]
Fighting Back In Argentina
Fighting Back in Argentina By Nick Stern La Plata, Argentina — The incident, like an open wound, still rubs raw on the memories of many Argentines. On the morning of September 28, 2004, a 15-year-old assailant, known only as “Junior”, unloaded the full magazine of his father’s 9mm pistol, killing three fellow students and wounding […]
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