Recipes with Dainess Chef School: Gado-gado (Vegetable salad with peanut dressing)

When Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stood beside India’s external affairs minister in Accra on Tuesday and announced that the cabinet of President John Dramani Mahama had decided Ghana should formally apply to join BRICS, he chose his stage with care. India is the bloc’s current chair, it hosted the leaders’ summit in New Delhi only last month, and it is the founding member least inclined to see BRICS turned into an anti-western alliance.

A piece of land can create wealth without ever being developed, while that same parcel can generate an entirely different level of value when transformed into a house, commercial property or mixed-use development. The difference lies not simply in appreciation, but in how effectively capital is deployed, how value is created and how risk is managed.

This is a continuation of last week’s extract from my book:

I have always believed that a workplace environment is like a second home. Employees spend a large part of their time there.

For generations, education has often been much better at rewarding the correct answer than at rewarding the interesting question.

Leadership is critical in the contemporary world, spanning all areas. It is no longer business as usual, leaders need to device ways of dealing with uncertainties and evolving technology to be able to stay on top of their game.

The hiring decision is arguably the most consequential act an employer undertakes.

A delivery rider weaves through traffic, his eyes darting from the smartphone mounted on his handlebar to the road ahead. Ask him who sent him and where he is headed, and he can tell you exactly.