When Pablo Escobar held sway in Colombia as the eminence grise of the cocaine trade, he would apparently offer anyone who stood in his way.  'Silver or lead - take a bribe or take a bullet'.  A compelling business proposition, to anyone, then or now, presented with these hypnotic...
By the kind courtesy of South African Tourism West Africa, I recently spent a week in South Africa, three nights in one of South Africa’s hidden treasures, a small town by name Clarens. I was part of about thirty players within the tourism industry and media practitioners from Ghana...
We all know that brands like, for example, Coca Cola, Virgin, Apple and Google are some of the most valuable brands in the world. All of these valuable brands have one thing in common: a great Customer Experience infused into the brand - in a way that makes the brand relevant...
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else: Kwame Nkrumah – in the Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, 1957.   One of the longest running debates in economics is the role of government. And like every debate, there are sides to...
There is disquiet by some persons about Ghana’s debts, deficits and by extension fiscal policy. Some have even gone a step further to suggest that Ghana will soon become Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) again. This article will attempt to explain the dynamics of Ghana’s fiscal policy, debt, deficits...
Different research studies have shown that, the best performing corporates, individuals and groups are the ones who have been able to combine hard and soft skills effectively. It is key that as individuals who want to grow our careers, entrepreneurs who want to grow ourselves, and our businesses and organizational...
There has been a series of attacks on web based applications in Ghana in recent times. In the past three years, Ghanaian organizations and agencies, most especially government agencies have experienced severe cyber-attacks. Most organizations in the country operate their web based applications without protecting the HTML codes. HTML (Hypertext...
It is 2pm and the sun is hot, as usual, and Kwame Danso (not real name) is seated at the back of a trotro heading to Circle, Accra. Kwame is with two friends and having a good conversation whiles the trotro stops and pick passengers at virtually every bustop. With...
“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.” Abraham Maslow   Dear readers, what are the images of the Chief Risk Officer or any Risk person...
The Doing Business (DB) survey is an annual report issued by the World Bank Group (WBG).  It ranks economies across the world on the time, ease and procedures required for a small to middle size domestic business, in the most populous city, to complete critical transactions. The first DB survey...