Some Development Issues and Debates

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As they say friends aren't jumper cables, you don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. True friendship should be perpendicular to achievements in areas of power, wealth, education or religion. It must show up regardless of conditions, it must edure misfortune, it must conqure distance, and must pass a test of time, otherwise, it is fake, or thinly veiled opportunism!

Greenwell C. Matchaya A slightly modified version appeared in the Nation news paper’s Business section on Thursday 04/03/2010 I am pretty sure that for most government theorists, executive search agencies, management consultants and those of us with some advanced level of management theory it is platitudinous that the quest for any company’s CEO is probably the single most important decision that a Board of Directors has to periodically make. The decision of a CEO is very critical to the immediate and inter-temporal health and productivity of any organization. CEOs can, and do, make or break organizational fabrics and integrity conditional on their style of leadership, foresight and dynamism. It is hence so obvious that boards ought to usher themselves into robust search for the right candidates for the job while bearing in mind the larger goals of the organisation. The recent media debate on the choice of the CEO for the troubled ESCOM, partly tackled by MIE staff (referring to The N...

The pursuit of wealth and that of education aren't necessarily complementary. You can either become a billionnaire, but without too much formal education or you may become a professor but without the tambalas. It's all to do with how we invest our time.....sad reality, isn't it? The implication though is not that we should not endeavour to achieve excellence in academia, or in business, but that we should realise that we need to search for an optimal combination of the two given the scarce resource of time.

1. If you don't believe in yourself, no one will 2. Keep your value or get a paid job 3. Thrive to exist between the extreme of greed and stupid altruism 4. 'closing deals' is very different from having a 1000 leads 5. set the price as high as you possibly can at the pre-existing market conditions.

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Question: is it possible to get the names of students and primary schools they attended to put these results in perspective as this is the only way we could know whether the percentages presented to all of us mean something? any comments are welcome.