In an insightful three-part article, Lionel Marumahoko – an Executive Coach, Leadership Speaker and Business Advisor who specialises in complex transformation growth and new market entry in Africa – discusses some essential lessons every CEO can benefit from, through coaching. Lionel is a former C-Suite executive in a Fortune 500...
Business continuity plan A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a critical component of business continuity management (BCM) that helps organisations prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events. In the previous part of this series, we elaborated on the Business Impact Analysis which helps organisations to identify critical functions,...
Imagine this: You go for a health check-up and your physician sits you down and tells you that you weigh 90kg and then he walks away. What exactly does a 90kg mean? Are you overweight or are you at just the right weight? Or imagine being told that your...
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract – sustainable development- and turn it into a reality for all the world`s people. ----Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General Sustainability is the foundation for today’s leading global framework for international cooperation—the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...
The Church Economy (2) In the previous piece, I am sure we realised how the church economy has gained ground in the bigger Ghanaian economy and is influencing our way of life as a people. The matter is critical, and there are so many angles and lenses through which to...
This is the concluding article on the series on the risk managers and the characteristics required of them. The Image of The Risk Manager Earlier on, we looked at some interesting perceptions that some staff of financial services have about their Risk Personnel: They are trouble makers and always ready to...
Business impact analysis Business impact analysis (BIA) is an important aspect of business continuity management (BCM) that helps organisations understand the potential impact of disruptive events on their operations. The first step in conducting a BIA is to identify the organisation's critical functions, systems and processes. These are the functions, systems...
Last Saturday morning, I told the daughter of my mother in- law that I was fed up with having tea for breakfast. I settled for porridge (koko). When they brought the bowl of koko sakora to me and said it cost GHS. 3.00, I nearly missed a heartbeat. Kuro...
According to U.S Senator Elizabeth Warren, “balancing your money is the key to having more”. I believe the surest ways to have more money starts with you taking the decision to know your true financial health or your true balances to guide your plans. You thereby need to reconcile...
… a nation in desperate need of a miracle for a beloved son “In a city where time is running out for the living, the dead must wait,” said the BBC’s Quinton Sommerville in a report from Antakya, one of the cities hit by the earthquake. As I sat down...