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Strategy fails less often in the plan than in the gap between the plan and the people asked to deliver it. These pieces cover the disciplines that close that gap: strategy sessions that settle real choices, boards that test resilience before it is needed, and managers who turn intent into execution. They draw on Carthena's Strategic Synergy Integration method and on our work with boards and leadership teams across Nigeria and Africa.

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Carthena Insights: Why Nigerian Boards Need Commercial Resilience Diagnostics. Most Nigerian boards can tell you their revenue. Few can tell you how much of it will survive the next market disruption.
Governance & Public Sector · 5 July 2025

Why Nigerian Boards Need Commercial Resilience Diagnostics

Carthena Insights: Understand the Power of WHY: Unlock the Path to Business Success. Simon Sinek's Golden Circle is one of the most cited frameworks in business - and one of the least rigorously applied.
Strategy & Planning · 1 August 2023

Understand the Power of WHY: Unlock the Path to Business Success

Carthena Insights: Unlocking Leadership Potential: The Strategic Value of Middle Managers. Middle managers are the most underleveraged asset in most Nigerian organisations.
Human Capital & Organisation · 29 June 2023

Unlocking Leadership Potential: The Strategic Value of Middle Managers

Carthena Insights: Embracing the Future: Unleash the Power of Emerging Opportunities. Every significant market shift creates winners and losers simultaneously.
Strategy & Planning · 25 June 2023

Embracing the Future: Unleash the Power of Emerging Opportunities

Carthena Insights: Unleashing Business Growth: Strategies to Assess and Address Weaknesses. Every organisation has weaknesses.
Business Growth & MSME · 3 June 2023

Unleashing Business Growth: Strategies to Assess and Address Weaknesses

Carthena Insights: Leverage Your Organization’s Strengths for a Competitive Advantage. Competitive advantage is rarely created from scratch - it is more often built by identifying what an organisation already does better than anyone else and engineering the conditions for that capability to compound.
Strategy & Planning · 2 June 2023

Leverage Your Organization’s Strengths for a Competitive Advantage

Carthena Insights: How to Build a Winning Mindset for High-Impact Strategy Sessions. The quality of a strategy session is determined before anyone enters the room.
Strategy & Planning · 26 May 2023

How to Build a Winning Mindset for High-Impact Strategy Sessions

Carthena Insights: How to Use SWOT Analysis for Smarter Strategic Decisions. SWOT analysis remains one of the most widely used and most poorly executed strategic tools in business.
Strategy & Planning · 25 May 2023

How to Use SWOT Analysis for Smarter Strategic Decisions

Carthena Insights: How to Run High-Impact Strategy Sessions Using a Powerful SWOT Framework. A SWOT analysis is only as valuable as the quality of the conversation it generates.
Strategy & Planning · 24 May 2023

How to Run High-Impact Strategy Sessions Using a Powerful SWOT Framework

Carthena Insights: The Ultimate Guide to Writing an Effective Training Report. A training report is not a compliance document - it is a strategic communication.
Human Capital & Organisation · 24 May 2023

The Ultimate Guide to Writing an Effective Training Report

Carthena Insights: 3 Proven Strategies to Align Your Business with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals are not a CSR framework - they are a map of where global capital, regulation, and consumer preference are heading.
Sustainability & ESG · 21 May 2023

3 Proven Strategies to Align Your Business with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Carthena Insights: 10 Proven Strategies to Boost Staff Retention in Nigerian Workplaces. Staff turnover in Nigeria is consistently undercosted.
Human Capital & Organisation · 18 May 2023

10 Proven Strategies to Boost Staff Retention in Nigerian Workplaces

Carthena Insights: Achieving Business Sustainability & Growth - Current/Post Covid-19 Thoughts. The pandemic did not create Nigeria's business vulnerabilities - it exposed them.
Business Growth & MSME · 25 April 2020

Achieving Business Sustainability & Growth - Current/Post Covid-19 Thoughts

Carthena Insights: 7 Business Writing Principles Every Professional Should Know. The ability to write with clarity and authority is one of the most commercially valuable skills a professional can develop - and one of the most consistently neglected.
Human Capital & Organisation · 3 March 2020

7 Business Writing Principles Every Professional Should Know

Moniepoint Has a Hiring Problem. Nigeria Has a Pipeline Problem. They Are Not the Same Thing. - Carthena Advisory
Human Capital & Organisation · 15 May 2026

Moniepoint Has a Hiring Problem. Nigeria Has a Pipeline Problem. They Are Not the Same Thing.