Some months ago, I was sitting at Mombasa airport waiting for my flight back to Nairobi when my eye caught the cover of a book someone near me was carrying. Its title was “Values”, not at all unusual, but the word was printed upside down, and I wondered why. I asked the gentleman with the […]
Before I start let me correct an error in my last column, where I stated that it was 275th. No, it was the 475th. Then, I want to pay tribute to Sunny Bindra, who at the end of last month informed us in his Sunday Nation column which had been running weekly for over two […]
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I’ve been asked to run another session on the importance of boards focusing on the culture of the organisations where they are directors. So as I sat down with my blank screen I decided to concentrate my mind on the subject in poetic form, boiling it down to its essence. Here’s what emerged. Too often […]
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I drove up less than half a mile along Kabarsiran Avenue to Kibondeni College, where Lisa Issroff, the CEO of the Issroff Family Foundation, was facilitating her session at the NGO Directors’ workshop jointly hosted by them and the Women On Boards Network. In the meeting room were seated around fifty bright young men and […]
Ten years ago, on the eighth anniversary of my first column in this newspaper, I wrote one about what it’s like to be a columnist. With Business Daily celebrating the 18th anniversary of its birth a couple of weeks ago, my editor and I thought it would be good for me to go back to […]
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In my last column I started writing about the event branded “Sustainability, Governance and You: Unlocking Organisational Excellence with ISO 37000” that was co-hosted by Scribe Services and FluidRock Governance Group, at which I was a panelist. In that article I focused on how the first keynote speaker, FluidRock Executive Chair Annamarie Van der Merwe, […]
If you ask pretty much anyone from the business community what the Theory of Change is about they’ll most likely look blank. The same applies to those in government. For the concept is largely restricted to the development world, including NGOs and those who fund them. Having worked with NGOs over the years I have […]
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When I read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point – How Little Things Make a Big Difference I really wanted to produce an article about it. But it never happened. Now, 25 years after he’d published that book, he returned to the subject with more case studies and more reflections in a new book, titled Revenge […]
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Late last year Frank Kretzschmar and I co-hosted another of our Leaders Circles, where we gather a small group of leaders to share stories. Its theme was “The Others: respect requires honouring the dignity and rights of others”, and as often before I am writing this article about the highlights. Frank and I always seek […]
A fortnight ago KEPSA held an event at KICC to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding, and I closely related to how Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o opened his speech by saying he was feeling very nostalgic seeing the faces of those he helped launch KEPSA back in 2003 when he was the Minister of Planning […]
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Mark Carney, no populistJune 6, 2025 - 3:08 pm
Mark Carney, no populist
My ArticlesSome months ago, I was sitting at Mombasa airport waiting for my flight back to Nairobi when my eye caught the cover of a book someone near me was carrying. Its title was “Values”, not at all unusual, but the word was printed upside down, and I wondered why. I asked the gentleman with the […]
Being… and doing
My ArticlesBefore I start let me correct an error in my last column, where I stated that it was 275th. No, it was the 475th. Then, I want to pay tribute to Sunny Bindra, who at the end of last month informed us in his Sunday Nation column which had been running weekly for over two […]
Boards and culture
My ArticlesI’ve been asked to run another session on the importance of boards focusing on the culture of the organisations where they are directors. So as I sat down with my blank screen I decided to concentrate my mind on the subject in poetic form, boiling it down to its essence. Here’s what emerged. Too often […]
Nurturing NGO board members
My ArticlesI drove up less than half a mile along Kabarsiran Avenue to Kibondeni College, where Lisa Issroff, the CEO of the Issroff Family Foundation, was facilitating her session at the NGO Directors’ workshop jointly hosted by them and the Women On Boards Network. In the meeting room were seated around fifty bright young men and […]
Writing a Business Daily column for 18 years
My ArticlesTen years ago, on the eighth anniversary of my first column in this newspaper, I wrote one about what it’s like to be a columnist. With Business Daily celebrating the 18th anniversary of its birth a couple of weeks ago, my editor and I thought it would be good for me to go back to […]
Governance and individual responsibility
My ArticlesIn my last column I started writing about the event branded “Sustainability, Governance and You: Unlocking Organisational Excellence with ISO 37000” that was co-hosted by Scribe Services and FluidRock Governance Group, at which I was a panelist. In that article I focused on how the first keynote speaker, FluidRock Executive Chair Annamarie Van der Merwe, […]
Theory of Change
My ArticlesIf you ask pretty much anyone from the business community what the Theory of Change is about they’ll most likely look blank. The same applies to those in government. For the concept is largely restricted to the development world, including NGOs and those who fund them. Having worked with NGOs over the years I have […]
Tipping Point Revisited
My ArticlesWhen I read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point – How Little Things Make a Big Difference I really wanted to produce an article about it. But it never happened. Now, 25 years after he’d published that book, he returned to the subject with more case studies and more reflections in a new book, titled Revenge […]
The Others
My ArticlesLate last year Frank Kretzschmar and I co-hosted another of our Leaders Circles, where we gather a small group of leaders to share stories. Its theme was “The Others: respect requires honouring the dignity and rights of others”, and as often before I am writing this article about the highlights. Frank and I always seek […]
KEPSA at 20
My ArticlesA fortnight ago KEPSA held an event at KICC to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding, and I closely related to how Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o opened his speech by saying he was feeling very nostalgic seeing the faces of those he helped launch KEPSA back in 2003 when he was the Minister of Planning […]