Patriotism and Profit: Creating an Environment for Rising Champion Companies 3
Patriotism and Profit: Creating an Environment for Rising Champion Companies 3 by John I. Akhile Sr. Contemplating the resources that African countries have frittered away since independence, through the profligacy of leadership, is mind-numbing. The path to evolving a successful economy is not only based on the activities of the business community. It rests more […]
Patriotism and Profit VII Creating an Incubator for Future Champion Companies 2
Patriotism and Profit VII: Creating an Incubator for Future Champion Companies 2 by John I. Akhile Sr. There is a huge divide between the reality of the capacity of Africans and political leadership’s recognition of it. In other words, African people are progressing on all fronts: in business, academia, global multilateral agency management, etc. Case in […]
Patriotism and Profit Part VI: Creating an Incubator for Future Champion Companies
Patriotism and Profit Part VI: Creating an Incubator for Future Champion Companies by John I. Akhile Sr. Companies are a crucial part of economic development. In fact, it can be posited that throughout history, the spear of economic development has been trade in goods and services produced in one place and sold in another, usually […]
Patriotism and Profit Part V: How to Build Champion Companies in Construction Services
Patriotism and Profit Part V: How to Build Champion Companies in Construction Services by John I. Akhile Sr. Preamble Intense strategic thinking is lacking in the deliberative construct of policymaking. For instance, countries commit to building industrial projects without fully fleshing out the intangibles of sustaining the resulting business. Questions like source of raw inputs, […]
Patriotism and Profit Part IV: How to Build Champion Companies in Construction Services
Patriotism and Profit Part IV: How to Build Champion Companies in Construction Services by John I. Akhile Sr. Preamble One of the biggest challenges that African leaders have to overcome is the inescapable megaphone of “false prophets.” False Prophets are always around because they are an integral part of the fabric of human existence. There […]
Patriotism and Profit Part III: How to Build Champion Companies
Patriotism and Profit Part III: How to Build Champion Companies by John I. Akhile Sr. The key to building champion companies that will carve out markets for their products in the world market is “intentionality”. Intentionality is the act of channeling of thoughts, energies, and actions to affect, redirect, and impact the existing status quo […]
Patriotism and Profit Part II: Tanzania a Gem in Need of Polishing
Patriotism and Profit Part II: Tanzania a Gem in Need of Polishing by John I. Akhile Sr Let’s be clear, champion companies run the world. In most cases, with the exception of the Soviet Union, North Korea, and many African countries, political leaders are managed by champion companies. What are “Champion companies?” They are brands […]
Patriotism and Profit: Creating Champion Companies in African Countries (Part I)
Patriotism and Profit: Creating Champion Companies in African Countries (Part I) by John I. Akhile Sr Champion companies are companies that develop products or evolve a business model that becomes a ubiquitous brand known throughout the company’s region and, in many cases, the world. A few random examples of champion companies/brands are: Boeing, Toyota, Walmart, […]
Turning African Countries into a Dynamic Jobs Engine for Economic Growth (Part I)
Turning African Countries into a Dynamic Jobs Engine for Economic Growth (Part I) by John I. Akhile Sr. It is not sufficient to identify the challenges facing African countries. It is more crucial to proffer ideas that embody solutions to the problems identified. Every informed personality agrees with the widely-held belief that African countries have […]
Economic Transformation Starts by Deciding to Prosper
Economic Transformation Starts by Deciding to Prosper by John I. Akhile Sr. The main objective of leadership is to chart a path to the future that is both navigable and fulfilling. Blazing a new path is fraught with risk and in some cases, danger. Paradoxically it is an absolute truism that no success is possible […]