“You’ve got to make your team have value, innovation and vision”…. Jack Ma
Preparing for the closing bell
For financial institutions, December is a period for re-strategizing their operations for the coming year. They do not wait for the new year before they examine their budgets, cash flows, staffing and...
Corporate reputation is crucial for any organisation's success – whether private or public – as it directly affects how consumers, investors and partners perceive the company. While reputation management has always been vital, it has become even more so in today's digital age as information spreads quickly and can...
Conflict by itself is not necessarily dysfunctional. Functional conflict is at times needed to improve organisational systems and may need to be deliberately orchestrated. However, when unplanned and unmediated it becomes dysfunctional and has dire consequences on the health of any organisation regarding profitability - and the employees as...
“He/she who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.” – African proverb
One of the first traits that nature bestows on us is the gnawing urge to ask questions. Research shows that toddlers ask an average of seventy to a hundred questions each day. This can be exhausting for their parents...
Until the 2007-2009 recession, the 1981-1982 recession was the worst economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. Records show that Ghana suffered a serious famine in the early 1980s. The crisis was the result of a drought that cut cereal production by 13 percent - coupled...
The invention that had the greatest impact on Mother Earth in the past two centuries is the light bulb. With the successful invention of the light bulb, entire industries were created, living patterns and work patterns changed (people no longer had to go to bed at sundown anymore), productivity...
The merchandising of ‘Kumkum Bhagya’ as a soap opera on our screens should forever be an indelible case study for all and sundry pursuing marketing courses in our country.
Its overall marketing and sales strategy was impeccably executed.
Everything that was basically built around Kumkum Bhagya regarding marketing and sales of...