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Have you tried solving your business problem backward?

Nairobi, Sept. 16 -- "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident"---Arthur Schopenhauer Are most managem... Read More


Why successful companies embrace innovation failures

Nairobi, Sept. 9 -- "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm" ~often attributed to Winston Churchill. If your organisation has innovative profitable moment... Read More


What collective assumptions hold back your firm's success?

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- "Business performance is often not limited by what managers know. The problem is how they think about what they know," advises the psychologist Jamil Qureshi. What does the number... Read More


The old wisdom behind management trends

Nairobi, Aug. 26 -- "The things you make-the ideas you chase and the ideas that chase you-will ultimately define your career," writes Tony Fadell. But what if these new insights are really ancient wi... Read More


Riding the cycles: The crucial things they never tell you

Nairobi, Aug. 19 -- "Knowledge tells you what to do. It does nothing about whether you actually do it. And the gap between the two is where almost everything happens" --Nisha Shah. On the Kenyan busi... Read More


The fairy tale vs reality: What if your business story is radically wrong?

Nairobi, Aug. 12 -- "You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy" wrote Eric Hoffer. Why is it that we can never get enough of stories? Is the story we tell about what happened ... Read More


Why smart companies question their own story

Nairobi, Aug. 5 -- "We don't think our way into a pattern of living. We live our way into a pattern of thought," said John Dewey. "You are what you do, not what you say you do," advised Carl Jung. D... Read More


Ideas that build billion-dollar businesses don't follow the crowd

Nairobi, July 29 -- "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo. Imagine you could tap into the next MPesa-like, market-dominating business idea. Can a struggling en... Read More


Da Vinci code secret to smart business thinking

Nairobi, July 22 -- "The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks," said Christopher Hitchens. Is 'thinking about how you think' useful? Is there a Da Vinci co... Read More


Performance secrets - energy, frequency and vibration

Nairobi, July 15 -- "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration," said inventor Nikola Tesla. Ever wonder why some managers get a critical task... Read More