There have been calls and plans to make Ghana the centre for Medical Tourism in West Africa. Recently Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo-Maafo charged the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to focus on developing some of its centres for medical tourism. He said the establishment of the National Radiotherapy Oncology and...
…Safe-haven Exclusive Foods shows how
One author, Peter Drucker, once said an entrepreneur is “someone who always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity”. This clearly describes the story of Gifty Dede Tetteh Badzi - a mother who in the quest to get her...
…a viable alternative
In a virtual address during the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session in September 2021, Chinese president Xi Jinping proposed the Global Development Initiative (GDI) to support timely achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Focused on eight priority...
In Africa, a continent bursting with economic potential and technological growth, a new kind of conversation is starting to emerge regarding the necessary skills for 21st-century success. As the wave of Artificial Intelligence (AI) gains momentum in African workspaces, the focus on hard skills, although important, is starting to...
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." — Ralph Nader
Over the past decade and more, I have had opportunities to orient fresh recruits as well as fresh Management Trainees. Sometimes some of the freshly recruited “Management Trainees” carry...
An annuity is an investment that pays a specified Cedi amount to the holder each period until it expires or the holder's death. The investor pays a lump sum or a series of payments to an insurance company, which promises to make certain payments over time with interest or...
Over the past few weeks, I have focused on advocating for environmental social governance (ESG) as a vehicle to address critical development and economic issues in both developed and developing countries. In this article, focus is on the increasing correlation between investing, economic performance and environmental social governance, and...
Israel is not nicknamed the ‘Startup Nation’ only for the absolute number of startups formed and operating out of Israel. The label is also due to the impressive list of leading innovations being developed for users across multiple fields of life and work from the Israeli startup ecosystem.
Today, Israel...
…what to do when customers lose it
I am sure I have ever written in this column about one of the angriest customer episodes I have ever witnessed. I recall so vividly that incident that occurred during my days at the front desk in one of this country’s banks. This...
June 2, 2023, on my way home from work, I switched the car radio to the BBC’s Fm station in Accra, to listen to the last edition of the Focus on Africa program for the day. I had missed out on the first two and did not want the...