Scarcity as survival is understandable, but it cannot compound, because it is not built on generosity, and nothing built against the neighbour outlasts the builder.
By
Michael Anthony Macharia
Founder
Seven Seas Technologies
A candle loses nothing by lighting another. Everyone has watched it happen at a vigil or a celebration: one flame leaning into a second wick, and the room growing brighter while the first candle burns undiminished. The physics is settled. Only the mindset is in dispute. Because in business, we behave as if light were finite.
When the founder’s self-inflicted intensity becomes everyone’s unspoken minimum, something has been transferred that was never…
The paradox does not resolve. Leave too early and the enterprise can lose its fire before the creed has set. Leave too late and…
Markets often reward narrative ahead of fundamentals. The entrepreneur is left carrying a trust deficit accumulated far beyond…
There is a particular moment in the life of many African businesses when success quietly becomes a risk. The founder has built...
Ideas in business are often contradictory, with 'flavour-of-the-month' fads in constant supply.
An article by Shahnaz Hamade, Founder and CEO of Harmonie Consulting There is a particular kind of exhaustion that many…
