[15 min read + Time for Exercise] The idea of what high performance means and how we can cultivate it is something I’ve spent a lot of time investigating and reflecting on. It’s a common thread in discussions I have with peers and also with those I’m mentoring. More recently, it’s being debated in a […]
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Where do we go next, with so much before us which we know not how to make sense of? Both before and after the Vedic period depicted, there is to be found unfathomable swathes of twisting history, stretching beyond 5000 years. What lay the destiny for Gujaratis? Through the Bronze Age, into the Harappan and […]
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A true story and study of Nairobi’s street children and the people working to uplift them
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Long read: 20 minutes AkiraChix a not for profit organisation that aims to inspire and develop a successful force of women in technology. Founded in April 2010, AkiraChix looks to be the leading women’s network impacting technology in Africa. It’s programs are developed to reach young women at different levels including Primary School, High School, […]
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While walking down Kimathi Street in Nairobi only hours ago, I was met with the warm beaming gaze of a gentlemen in a suit. He smiled and asked me where I’m from. Random encounters with people in the street in Kenya are common, and interactions are usually brief and over before you have taken another […]
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Ten years ago almost to the day, on December 17th 2006 I arrived in Tunisia with my family. Aside from being abroad for a holiday, the thing that excited me the most was the book that was tucked away in my backpack. It was Muhammad Ali’s auto-biography ‘The Soul of a butterfly’. I was 14 years old […]
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Some of the biggest business mistakes made in recent times were those that led us into the financial crisis. These mistakes affected us all, even those of us who played no part in creating them. There were numerous factors that played a part in the failure of the banks which we won’t be going into, […]
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Yesterday evening, Salford Business School hosted an event in conjunction with International Citizens Service at their Media City UK campus in Manchester. The evening involved a panel discussion consisting of prominent figures from government and international development organisations, discussing the present and coming challenges of driving solutions to global problems. Members of the panel included: Richard […]
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Balloon Kenya: A combination of two of my favourite things – Africa and business. It’s perfect. The prospect of going straight back to east Africa having only just been there for one month over the summer, as well as going there to work with entrepreneurs on the first ever 12 week ICS program was something […]
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There is no such thing as a crazy idea. If it sounds crazy it means you’re doing something right. This is exactly what we had to believe when one of the eight entrepreneurs we are coaching decided that he wants to sell eggs. Everyone else counted him out – “Eggs? You must be crazy…You run […]
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Brain Soup 