“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible"! -Audrey Hepburn
It seems heart-warming to see how opportunities are being taken amidst the COVID 19 crisis. Living in this era brings with it, mixed emotions- the good, the bad and the ugly. For every venture that institutions are undertaking, it...
Customer Experience thrives on well-thought-out strategies backed by effective execution. An overarching Customer Experience strategy initiated at the top must eventually cascade downward to avoid the culture of silos in delivering value to your customers. There must be consistency, direction, concentration and flexibility in every strategy, and Customer Experience...
A 26-member committee with 13 members from each caucus make up the 2021 Appointment Committee. This committee is set to approve persons nominated by the president for appointments like Ministers of State, Deputy Ministers, the Chief Justice and others specified under the constitution or under any other enactment.
The Appointment...
US President Joe Biden wants to “build back better” after the pandemic. It’s a widely shared goal. But what exactly does it mean, and how should we do it?
Clearly, we should build back with more equality of opportunity. Many communities in the United States and elsewhere in the developed...
Kandifo Institute wishes to congratulate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on his re-election as Chairman of Authority of Heads of State and Government of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Just like the first person to scale Mount Everest, your achievement is a testament of ambition and perseverance. Your...
Economic development relies on the creation of more productive jobs for an ever-rising share of the workforce. Traditionally, it was industrialization that enabled poor countries to embark on this transformation. Factory work may not have been glorious, but it enabled farmers to become blue-collar workers, transforming the economy and...
Operations undertaken by the Ethiopian federal government have freed the Tigrayan people from decades of misrule by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). This has ignited new hopes, but also anxieties, about Ethiopia’s future and its role in the Horn of Africa and beyond.
The hopes stem from the removal...
A self-fulfilling prophecy. That is what it is popularly referred to. It is simply defined as “a prediction that causes itself to come true.” There are generally two kinds of self-fulfilling prophecies. There are the self-imposed prophecies which, as the name denotes, we impose on ourselves. We are about...
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Investment Risk is the chance of losing some or all of your invested money due to the price volatility of your investment. In the investment universe, there is an interesting relationship between risk and return, and a clear understanding of this will help an investor make an informed investment...
When did spelling bees start? Why is it spelling ‘bee’? Why did you decide to run a national spelling bee? Why do all Spellers ask, “May I have the origin of the word?”
These are questions I get whenever I tell tweenagers what I do. Everyone seems intrigued with this...