Common Mistakes that Bankers should Avoid “Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking” …Walter Bagehot Last week I looked at the “Tournier principles” in great detail. Today, I will share some basic mistakes that bankers make which breach the duty of confidentiality. These inadvertent...
UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini has said digital technologies, geared toward inclusion and equity, could transform the future of school systems and learning. “Harnessing technology and changing education models is imperative,” Giannini said as she addressed a side event about the UNESCO-Huawei “Technology-enabled Open Schools for All” project...
Dear readers, last week, I looked at the numerous positives of digitalisation – which has come to stay, but cautioned about the new challenges that employees and employers are facing when its implementation goes overboard and not blended to suit our local environment and community. Technology has progressed to the...
‘Constantly engage issues to resolve them. Don’t breed fungi. Spray them. Don’t keep them.’ A leader must be ready for this. The leader grows, preparing to go through the day with challenges. Without this mindset, leaders would give up along the way. The underpinning point is the internal motivation not...
“If you do not find time to do it right, you will need a lot more time to do it over again.” – Akan proverb The past holds all kinds of memories – sweet, sour, sad, happy and many others. Whatever they were, those are moments we can never alter....
In Akan folklore, hypocrisy is profoundly expressed in the conduct of a bird called kokone kone which habitually goes upstream to muddy the stream only to quickly dash downstream to ask who caused the mess. It beats my imagination how various levels of traditional and political authority pretend to be...
70 years old. It’s the CocoBod’s birthday. And it’s been a tumultuous 70 years. The Jubilee Park, Kumasi celebration saw our President caution this body against repeating its past of financial malfeasance, corruption and other mismanagement accusations. And he celebrated the history of a sector on whose back Ghana’s...
"Trust is the currency for riches. In today's business world, if you can't be trusted, you don't have a business." — Bernard Kelvin Clive Can someone always hit a home-run? Have you ever had a meal at a restaurant that was so incredibly tasty you couldn't stop thinking about it and...
I believe it is also time we promote some local products doing well in the market. This particular product has performed extremely well with different anecdotal evidence I heard. I have decided to examine the science of this product without any financial obligations to the manufacturer. I aim to...
Ghana is among 198 nations and the European Union Block, who have feverishly prepared to start another round of climate related negotiations at the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), from Thursday, November 30th to Tuesday, December 12th, in Dubai,...

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