At a breakfast table in the noisy restaurant of a hotel in Shenzhen, I met Kwame Song Dongshong, now President of the Powerchina International Group Limited. The company that built the iconic Three Gorges in China, is a behemoth by its own description in 'planning, survey, design, engineering, through...
Writing is hard… Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine coal? They simply dig. – Cheryl Strayed We are a few days from drawing curtains on the year 2017. As a writer, how has it been for...
Medication adherence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the degree to which the person’s behavior corresponds with the agreed recommendations from a health care provider. The treatment of chronic illnesses like autoimmune conditions commonly includes the long-term use of drugs. Although these medications are known to be effective...
Imagine you are in the audience at a public event. The MC introduces the speaker who shuffles to the podium and begins to speak. Not once does he look at the people who have gathered to hear him speak.One hand in his pocket, his eyes are fixed firmly on...
The Nungua Junction Mall was set ablaze Saturday night when YFM, Ghana’s number one urban radio station together with ‘The Junction Mall’ held the biggest birthday bash to celebrate their anniversary. The YFM and Junction Mall Birthday Bash event has been viewed as the biggest musical concert so far to...
It’s become such a loaded term that some publishers are reconsidering how it’s used. The Wall Street Journal published a brief post describing the pitfalls of labelling young people as “millennials” in news coverage. Why? It’s a word that’s often met with derision. It conjures an image of Snapchat-happy, gentrifying narcissists...
Preamble T.S. Eliot posed the question: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" It is on the basis of such a question, I would like to share my views (Information, Knowledge and Wisdom) after I read the 108...
Ghanaians have been encouraged to build strong business networks and patronize local businesses. This was the resonating message that was echoed by the panelists; Mr. Derry Dean Dadzie, CEO Dream Oval and Slydepay, Mr. Alex Bram, CEO and Co-Founder, HUBTEL formerly SMS GHANA, Lawyer Jude Amankwah and Mr. Eric Atta-Sonno...
Due to her first-hand experience as an entrepreneur in sub-Saharan Africa, Victoria Quaye was invited as a speaker to the Transcultural Leadership Summit 2017 at Zeppelin University in Germany. She shared her knowledge and experience as founder and CEO of Naaviq Company Limited in a workshop entitled ‘Learning about Start-Ups’,...
Employers must comply with legal requirements on employees' working hours. Giving employees fair holidays and pay can also help to improve performance, reduce accidents and cut unauthorized absenteeism. Annual leave allows employees to take paid time off from work for the purpose of having regular breaks so that they can...