Doing Business
Meeting effectively
Most of us spend many hours attending meetings, not all of them useful. In fact, many meetings are a waste of time, while giving...
Doing Business
About Scaffolding
Watching a building under construction in Addis Abeba is interesting to say the least. What I find most interesting is the scaffolding used by...
Doing Business
So, this is Christmas …
… and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun.
These are the opening lines of a song by the late...
Doing Business
Beware!
While watching workers at the many construction sides in the city or seeing how roadworks and maintenance are carried out for example, I cannot...
Doing Business
Lending a helping hand
Sometime ago I shared a situation I was in, some years ago, in which a man trying to go about his business along the...
Doing Business
Pass it on 3
“You’ll find plenty of advice on building a successful business, but people don’t talk so much about how to leave it behind. And yet...
Doing Business
Pass it on
I retired from full time employment just over a year ago. I made up my mind to retire long before that though, so the...
Doing Business
Who is to blame?
When I began my career in development cooperation in another African country, I was introduced to some expat experts. In those days the expats...
