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Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank has been in the news recently under a cloud of allegations that he tried to hook-up his girlfriend with some perks. Anyway, I don’t want to dwell on Wolfowitz’s history of corruption, except to say that I run into an article in Harper’s magazine written by [...]
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This is a website created by the business school at the University of Maryland. It collects failed business plans that were submitted as part of a public IPO application and it archives them for your consumption.
The sign-up process is free and once your signed up, you can browse through the site using different criteria. [...]
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This Indian writer has a very funny and informative piece on her parents desire to see her married and she chronicles her difficulties with this age old tradition that is now confronting her.
The writer is a Jain, a sect of Hinduism that adhere to a strict vegetarian diet. However, as she says….”My father excludes “non-veg” [...]
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I just came across an interesting article in the New York Times that discusses this issue of cultural innovation — where it comes from and how it manifests itself. Here are a list of stereotypes that the author highlights (I prefer to call them truism’s because I think that they are largely true).
The Chinese [...]
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I was going through this month’s issue of Entrepreneur magazine and they have a small piece on this on-line company called Hedgestop where visitors to the website can build and manage an imaginary portfolio of stocks. It’s a cool learning tool to use if you are thinking about investing in stocks, but are unsure [...]
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I want to continue this piece on the art of selling by looking at examples of sales techniques that I’ve seen people I know use. As I was thinking about this piece, it just became clear to me that you have to craft a sales technique that fits in with your basic personality.
The examples follow:
Cold [...]
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I find myself coming back to the same general themes over and over again and today I’ll return to one of these themes: The Art of selling. I know a lot of people like to dwell on things like fancy business plans, with all their fancy graphics and they like to talk about stock [...]
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I was reading this article in the Nation’s business weekly and they have a profile of two 20 year old entrepreneurs who started a company that takes care of people’s errands for them. Like many people in Kenya, these two young college students were forced into the world of entrepreneurship because of the economic realities [...]
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I was browsing through the Standard’s business section and they have a piece on yet another brokerage company that is playing footsy with clients money. According to the article, “Nyaga Stockbrokers Limited is fighting to clear its name after cheques it issued recently were returned unpaid. When contacted for comment on Monday, Nyaga Stockbrokers [...]
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I was just reading an article in the New York Times about Germany’s emergence once again, as a global engineering powerhouse (German Exports). The Germans have always been known for their solid engineering, but the economy took a downturn when East and West unified. The transition was difficult both economically and culturally, but [...]
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I was on the subway going home from work last night and it’s like being in a matatu (people just insist on squeezing themselves into that last spot) Anyway, this woman was determined to get on that train, even though they run every five minutes during rush hour. So, she pushed her way through, [...]
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I’m browsing through the Kenyan dailies and I’m reading about these clashes in Mt. Elgon. Um…Hello? Mr. Michuki? Where the hell are you??? Is Kibaki the commander-in-chief? Would these two men allow this kind of violence to take place in Muranga or in Nyeri?
This is very strange. You have a whole army sitting in [...]
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I have had a very authentic weekend and since I like authenticity, I’m going to talk about it. I decided to try out this new Peruvian restaurant that I’d read about. I was pleasantly surprised when I got there because you could tell that the owners really wanted you to have an “authentic” Peruvian [...]
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I was carousing through the business section of the Standard Newspaper and I run across this short article Zimele Unit Trusts . The article describes this trust fund this way: “unit trust fund is made up of money that is pooled together by a large number of investors, who give their money to a [...]
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I was watching the Chicken Noodle Network CNN las night and there was Ahmadineeeee (how the heck do you pronounce his name?) standing in the middle of what looked like a presidential palace, greeting these British hostages and offering them back to Blair as a “special Easter gift.” I must say, this guy really amuses [...]
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Here is an interesting article on Kenya’s outsourcing industry from the globalization obsessed journalist, Thomas Friedman (writing for the New York Times). How many call centers are there in Kenya today?
April 4, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The African Connection
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
NAIROBI, Kenya
Was anybody out there checking out jobs with the U.S. post office in 2005? Do you [...]
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I was reading the Nation yesterday and saw that the illiteracy rate in Kenya now stands at 40%! I should not have been shocked by that number, but I was. Kenya used to have one of the highest literacy rates in all of Africa. I believe at one point, it was around 80%. [...]
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