Most companies don’t fail because of bad strategy.

They fail because of one person with too much ego.

In this powerful podcast episode, we break down 7 critical reasons why leaders must remove ego-driven individuals from their teams no matter how talented, senior, or influential they are.

We use a real-world football example involving Kylian Mbappé’s reaction after a loss to Barcelona to show how unchecked ego destroys discipline, respect, and leadership authority. The same thing happens every day in African businesses, startups, and corporates just without the cameras.

You’ll learn:

Why ego silently kills company culture before it kills performance

How one ego can sabotage the best strategy in the room

Why leaders who protect ego players lose authority

The danger of “star performers” who don’t respect systems

How ego spreads like a virus inside teams

Why culture always beats talent in the long run

When cutting ego is not personal, but pure leadership

If you’ve ever had:

A brilliant employee who disrespects leadership

A partner who thinks rules don’t apply to them

A team member who divides others instead of uniting them

This episode is for you.

Key lesson: You can plan, strategise, and hire all you want but if ego is in the room, execution will always fail.

Watch, listen, and share this episode with every leader, founder, manager, or entrepreneur who believes discipline matters more than talent. ego in leadership, toxic employees, company culture, team leadership, business podcast africa, leadership lessons, ego in the workplace, cutting off toxic team members, strategy execution, african entrepreneurship, leadership discipline, mbappe leadership lesson

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Zambianisation was meant to empower local citizens by prioritising the employment of Zambians over foreign workers. But is this policy strengthening Zambia’s economy or quietly driving foreign investors away?

In this powerful podcast episode, we unpack the real business realities of Zambianisation in Zambia. We discuss the daily HR challenges, constant labour disputes, frequent court cases, and how the Zambian Labour Act heavily favours employees. Many investors find themselves dealing with productivity issues while employees know the Labour Law better than their job descriptions.

We also explore the growing culture where, after just one year of employment, gratuity discussions begin regardless of company performance. Instead of focusing on company growth, the mindset often shifts to personal gain, leaving businesses struggling to remain sustainable.This episode asks the hard questions:

Is Zambianisation protecting workers or discouraging investment?

Are Zambia’s labour laws balanced enough for business growth?

Why are investors facing HR crises almost daily?

Is foreign investment becoming too risky in Zambia?

If you’re an investor, entrepreneur, policy maker, HR professional, or business owner in Zambia or Africa, this conversation is one you cannot afford to ignore.

Watch the full discussion and decide for yourself.

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Most African businesses don’t have a market problem. They have a sales leadership problem.

In this episode of The Vendors Corner, Jerry More Nyazungu (aka The Chartered Vendor) break down the 11 deadly sales mistakes African companies keep making, mistakes that silently kill revenue, demotivate sales teams, and frustrate business owners.

If you’ve ever said “salespeople are lazy” or “the economy is tough”, this conversation will challenge you hard.

THE 11 SALES MISTAKES WE UNPACK

1. Recruiting marketers and assuming they can sell

2. Paying salespeople big basic salaries

3. Allowing salespeople to use personal phones for business

4. Business owners who don’t know how to run sales teams

5. Operating without clear sales KPIs

6. No consequences for missed sales targets

7. Not training salespeople daily

8. Reporting sales performance only at month-end

9. Running a business with no clear sales strategy

10. Confusing activity with real productivity

11. Operating without a CRM to track leads, follow-ups, and pipelines

WHO SHOULD WATCH THIS

Business owners

Sales managers

Entrepreneurs building sales teams

African SMEs struggling with revenue growth

Sales is not luck.

Sales is systems, leadership, culture, and discipline.

Watch till the end one of these mistakes might be the reason your business is stuck.

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Host: Jerry More Nyazungu The Chartered Vendor

Show: The Vendors Corner