Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 5: The Heavy Lifting
[fusion_text] This article is a continuation of Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 4. Truth #6 The sixth is to compartmentalize each challenge by creating mission-specific teams. To successfully manage every aspect of re-engineering for change, leadership should create nuclei of working groups or mission-teams within a master-plan of tasks. In my book, “Unleashed, A […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 3
The World is a “Business Ecosystem” Managed by Politicians Part of the reason for the success of countries that have either made up ground or surpassed Western nations is that they get it. They get the fact that commerce is the business of the world’s nations. At the risk of over-simplification, the profit from supplying […]
Structural Changes that will Create Prosperity for African countries
In my new book, Unleashed: A New Paradigm of African Trade with the World, I tendered a comprehensive argument for a paradigm shift in the manner in which African countries trade. The discussion addresses the existing paradigm in which African countries produce very little of which the world consumes. It also addresses the need for […]
Seven Years of Plenty and Seven Years of Drought: Taking advantage of Global Opportunities
There is an ancient narrative about a man whose counsel was sought by a King regarding a predicament that was revealed to the King in a troubling dream. The King required interpretation of the dream. The reading showed that his domain was due to experience an event of seven years of plenty followed by seven […]
AntiPatterns – Irrational Exuberance of Phantom Wealth
“African countries should be hard at work developing an indigenous entrepreneurial class that will become the risk-takers, jobs creators and innovators in their society.” Ask any African living outside their country of origin if Africa is rich. The answer you will most likely get is yes, Africa has abundant wealth. More about that later but […]
US Business and Missed Opportunities in African Countries
U.S. business has missed many opportunities in African Countries.In discussing whether or not US business should be more interested in doing business in African countries, it is important to be specific about what the statement relates to. US businesses are in Africa, by the hundreds in fact. The question is not whether US business is […]