Business & Strategy

During a training on strategic leadership, board members of a teachers’ based Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) – except the Chairman – boasted of how their institution was better than all others in the region. Using financial data, they demonstrated to me how the SACCO had more members, deposits and…

While facilitating a financial management training session for entrepreneurs, I was struck by a comment made by one participant to the effect that he had initiated and closed 5 business ventures over a three-year period. While interrogating the comment further through an open forum, I realized how often people change…

I recently co-facilitated a SACCO member education day where my co-facilitator, Cathy Muringo of Experience Mitumba Bales, shared her experience about quitting employment for business. She started off her working life as a worker in a beauty products processing factory. She later transitioned to sales and marketing within the same…