Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- In my almost thirty years of work as a foot soldier in Nigeria Incorporated I learnt lessons galore. A few of the instructions have been handy. Contrast the plainness of the fact that work ought to be directed to where it is best done with the local preference for staffing junior positions with one's cronies. Or the requirement that one ought not to separate the benefits of "management by walking about" from the fact that the manager who regularly sees likeable events, people, things, and processes on the shopfloor is not managing well. Equally, a lot of my experiences have been useful only in a Nigerian sense - sessions in how things ought not to be done, nor people conduct themselves. The brown nose one gets from kis...