The Garden: How bad do you want it?

That thing you want so badly, that thing you pray for, that thing that keeps you awake some nights. The very thing that pushes you to keep going, even when you’re faced with discouraging...

A LETTER TO VALERIE SAWYERR

IF GHANA BURNT, THEN IT DID SO UNDER MILLS/MAHAMA, NOT AKUFO-ADDO! Dear Dr. Valerie Sawyerr, I have read a piece written by you in which you have virtually lambasted the clergy and civil society organizations for...

Recapitalized Banks face GHC9.2m Invoice from GDPC– but who really pays?

Governor Ernest Addison lived up to his speech at the Annual Dinner of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana on 2nd December 2017. The sector reform laced speech projected 2018 as a busy year...

Ghana prioritizes agric for poverty reduction and job creation

Akosua Elizabeth is the leader of the women farmers in Asankasu in Eastern Ghana. In the new farming season, she and farmers in her region are certain of a good harvest and a surplus. ...

HR Today: Humanizing the workplace

There are complains about how people are so busy getting the work done that their workplace has lost the human essence. When people work behind closed doors, when they keep to themselves, when they...

The Garden: Confidence

Are people born confident? That is the question that was posed to me last week when I was a guest in a private online class.  This group had invited me over for a Q&A,...

DRC: GHANBATT female engagement team boosts Ghana’s image in UN operations

Female Soldiers of the Ghana Armed Forces have performed ground breaking roles in the ongoing peace operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Showcasing this, female military personnel are gradually shifting from service...

Retaining star performers

How vital are your vital few? In any team or organization, a small number of individuals will account for a substantial amount of collective output. These “stars” are able to systematically outperform the majority...

Regional capitals: Why gov’t must tread with caution

When the then candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffu Addo of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) made a campaign promise in 2016 to create new regions across the country, there was an immediate political outcry suggesting...
Dagbon Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama

Dagbon: Don’t let politics rake up old wounds!

Let me start by expressing my fealty to my sovereign, His Majesty Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II. It took a long time in coming, but it surely feels and sounds good! The period of interregnum...