Rookie Management

Should you be going after the next award?

March 20, 2012

In 2009, Sunny Bindra wrote an article aptly titled: Did Your CEO Win an Award, You should Start Worrying. At the time, I was working in a tech company that had won a major entrepreneurship award, and the article did its rounds in the company, bypassing the CEO of course.Sunny could have been sitting in [...]

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Is M Pesa Contributing To Inflation?

February 16, 2012

  Yesterday, I saw a couple of tweets that implied that M Pesa has fueled inflation (See the article here), and my first instinct was to write this off as hogwash. Then, when @thedorc asked me this question, I was forced to think  a little deeper:   In responding to @thedorc, I’ll try be use [...]

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How to develop a winning pitch

November 15, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to sit on a judges panel for a business plan competition. In my category, we had over 20 business plans to judge, all based on a short executive summary, a 10 minute presentation by the entrepreneur and a 5 minute Question and Answer interaction between the judges and the entrepreneur. [...]

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Just Do It!

March 25, 2011

Two or so years ago, I had the privilege of free life coaching for a period of six months. I learnt a lot of things about setting goals, achieving them and general life direction, but the one thing that had the most impact can be summarised as this:

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Private Solutions To Public Problems

March 15, 2011

Private solutions to public problems are always costly – Kellie’s Boss This post wouldn’t be up if I didn’t have a niece who recently joined Standard One. I’ve always been of the school of thought that private school is the best option and I would do all it takes to have my child(ren) attend the [...]

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Cheese??

April 16, 2010

Last month’s Book Club read was John C Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership. Fantastic book, I feel I read it too fast to meet the deadline, rereading it, then will do a review. The current read is Dr Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese. This 39 pager has been on my ‘to read’ list [...]

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Local e Business?

February 8, 2010

Over the last couple of years, we have seen a steady increase in the number of ventures claiming to be businesses based on the web (e businesses). Everytime I attend yet another local techies conference (as an impostor since I’m not a techie), I have high hopes that someone will present a revolutionary, well executed [...]

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