MSMEs are less robust and more vulnerable to fluctuations in the national economy than big companies. COVID-19 has revealed that the state of world economies can sway at any moment. This is the time SMEs need to tactically shift a few gears around and evolve with the ongoing changes or risk the eventual death of […]
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GAWU & our 60years of Promoting DECENT WORK In Agriculture.
Who are GAWU? Ghana’s General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) is the nation’s biggest trade union organizing farmers and agricultural workers both in the formal and informal sectors of our country. GAWU has been working together with smallholder farmers and other non-wage rural workers since formation on the 9th of February, 1959. We are currently working in over 200 […]
Utilize Social Media NOW for your Business: 10 reasons why.
The POWER of Social Media is an easier sell to we the Generation Y business owners (1981-1996). We have a relatively healthy grasp of the before and the aftermath of the internet boom. This aforementioned power of social media is pretty obvious to Generation Z (1997-2012); that’s all they’ve known since they became “aware”. It’s a large […]
The Ultimate Time Management Lesson: Time Asset vs. Time Debt
On my growth trajectory, I am fast realising that the best way to absorb the wisdom of those that are ahead is by getting answers to the “why” and not the “what”. Because the why’s get you how they think, the why’s are like an algorithm that can solve not one specific problem but a set of them, […]
COVID-19 Vaccine – Why We Need To Start Distribution Preparations NOW!
Assuming the COVID-19 vaccine was ready today, how will it get to you wherever you are? How will it get to your grandma? How will it get to the rural villages and the other corners of the earth? Are we planning and preparing for the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine? It isn’t misplaced optimism to […]
Our talk with the Daakye Kanea Leadership Podcast
WHAT 5G IS – and no, it does not cause COVID-19
Many things can easily be explained with reasonable, logical, yet simple analysis. That is the purpose of this article: to explain what 5G is and to refute the notion that 5G causes coronavirus. Last week, I got a couple of the “I hear 5G can even cause cancers and coronavirus so beware of technology”. There’s this […]
EUROBONDS – a simple explanation of what they are.
When a company, a syndicate, a government, or any entity needs to borrow money, to, let’s say, keep the business running, to embark on new projects, to pay back old loans, for aggressive expansion, or for whatever reason, they may issue out what is called “bonds” to interested parties. Quite simply, a Bond successfully issued […]
BEWARE OF COVID-19 CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Last week, many people I came into contact with told me the coronavirus isn’t real. My mechanic, a guest at the office and a few more professed how they could never get the coronavirus. I even had meetings where some people just refused to wear a mask, or took it off once they entered. I […]
Startup Funding 101: Focus on Making Money, Not Raising it!
Never say never. This piece isn’t to persuade you to flat out put aside your efforts for external funding. The world is still spinning, albeit amidst a full-blown pandemic. But if ever there was a time to look internally for value first, this would be it. COVID-19 did not spare the investment and venture capital (VC) […]