The Operator's Trap

Are you an Operator, or a Strategic Leader?

Seven questions about how your last week, your last board meeting and your last crisis actually went. About 90 seconds, built from the book by Dr Ini Abimbola, DBA.

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What the test looks at

Not what you believe about your leadership. What your calendar, your team and your board would say about it.

  • TimeWhere the largest block of your week really went
  • AbsenceWhat happens when you are unreachable for a week
  • ShocksWhether you plan for currency moves or react to them
  • SuccessionWho could take your seat today
  • TalentYour first move when a strong manager is poached
  • The boardWhat actually fills the meeting
  • Letting goHow much of the work you still hold onto
Dr Ini Abimbola

“The biggest trap in an African executive’s life is competence that never evolves into strategic leadership.”

Dr Ini Abimbola, DBA

Founder of ThistlePraxis Consulting, former UN Technical Expert on Women's Political Leadership, and curator of the Africa CEO Roundtable for eight years. She has been the operator, built a firm through the transition, and is still active in the rooms she writes about today.

Praise for The Operator's Trap

  • “Operational excellence, the very quality that carries an executive up through the ranks, becomes the thing that holds them in place once they arrive at the top.”

    Bola AdesolaChairman, Ecobank Nigeria

  • “Many of Africa's most capable executives are not failing; they are succeeding in the wrong dimension.”

    Dr Tayo AdulojuCEO, Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG)

  • “The competence that gets an executive promoted is rarely the competence that sustains them at the top.”

    Audrey Joe-EzigboCEO & Founder, Falcon Corporation Limited

Let your competence evolve.