The first rule for financial success is spend less than you earn. The last post was on the first part of the rule (spend less), and we looked at five simple ways to ensure you are spending less. This post points to the other part of the equation:increasing your earnings. Increasing your earnings gives you more money to pay off your debts, save for things you want to…
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In 2009, Sunny Bindra wrote an article aptly titled: Did Your CEO Win an Award, You should Start Worrying. At the time, I was working in a tech company that had won a major entrepreneurship award, and the article did its rounds in the company, bypassing the CEO of course.Sunny could have been sitting in our open plan office when writing the article, because the…
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Yesterday, I saw a couple of tweets that implied that M Pesa has fueled inflation (See the article here), and my first instinct was to write this off as hogwash. Then, when @thedorc asked me this question, I was forced to think a little deeper: In responding to @thedorc, I’ll try be use language that’s as simple as possible, without offending the hard…
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I recently had the opportunity to sit on a judges panel for a business plan competition. In my category, we had over 20 business plans to judge, all based on a short executive summary, a 10 minute presentation by the entrepreneur and a 5 minute Question and Answer interaction between the judges and the entrepreneur. As you can imagine,there was a lot of pressure on…
Read MoreTwo or so years ago, I had the privilege of free life coaching for a period of six months. I learnt a lot of things about setting goals, achieving them and general life direction, but the one thing that had the most impact can be summarised as this:
Read MorePrivate solutions to public problems are always costly – Kellie’s Boss This post wouldn’t be up if I didn’t have a niece who recently joined Standard One. I’ve always been of the school of thought that private school is the best option and I would do all it takes to have my child(ren) attend the best private schools money can buy.
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Last month’s Book Club read was John C Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership. Fantastic book, I feel I read it too fast to meet the deadline, rereading it, then will do a review. The current read is Dr Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese. This 39 pager has been on my ‘to read’ list for a really long time, and almost jumped for joy…
Read MoreOver the last couple of years, we have seen a steady increase in the number of ventures claiming to be businesses based on the web (e businesses). Everytime I attend yet another local techies conference (as an impostor since I’m not a techie), I have high hopes that someone will present a revolutionary, well executed business concept. I’m not faulting all web based concepts, we…
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