We are all created different but what is inevitably evident is that none of us as human beings has a talent that applies to everything under the sun. We have our strengths and weaknesses and in order to succeed at whatever task we undertake, it is best to know what these are. In this particular instance, it helps to know strengths and weaknesses so that you can get someone to work for you in an area where you have a weakness, while you cover the business needs that are better suited to your strengths.

The Treasury has set in motion plans to enact a law that will see defaulters of utility bills such as water, electricity and telephone blacklisted by banks. Says The Business Daily. The new regulations will be part of the credit information sharing law that has been used to bar…

A business, any running business is a fragile thing. Anyone who knows anything can tell you that the devil truly always is in the details. A business, no matter how sturdy it may seem, can fall like a stack of badly arranged cards if some of the fundamental…

1. Africa Could Earn KES 17 Trillion from Global Food Sales – World Bank Africa has the potential to generate an extra US$20 billion(about Sh1.7 trillion) in yearly earnings from food trade if proper infrastructure is put according to a new World Bank report. The…

October will probably go down as one of the toughest months this year. Fuel prices shot up accompanied by increase in electricity bills and possible rise in food prices. Worst still, the 27th and the 28th fall on a weekend, meaning, if salaries were processed on Friday evening,…

If you tried making an M-Pesa transaction over the past couples of hours, you probably received this message: Dear customer, M-PESA is currently undergoing maintenance and is unable to process your request. We apologies for the inconvenience. Through a message posted on Safaricom’s Facebook page, the outage on…

UK Sports had expected possible medal results of between 40 to 70 medals. On average they expected to win at least 48 medals and rank among the top four on the medal table. Based on their preparations they went as far as to project how many…

I watched Skyfall. It was everything you think it is going to be, and more (not Avengers, but very, very close). Daniel Craig is an amazing man. He leaps and loves and lords over the MI6 like a born master of espionage. Javier Bardem is a…

93% of Kenya's population has no insurance whatsoever. What is the government doing about it? What's anyone doing about it?

Victor Wanyama represents more than just the latest Kenyan player to bang his head against the ceiling of rigid football wage structures. That’s why he decided to find an exit from Belgium’s Beerschot AC in July 2011, rather than find a way to live whilst…

Accessories could be costing you up to KES 22,000. Find out where all your money goes when you decide to purchase Dem Rasta Tings.

This weekend, there are several things that you might want to remind yourself or even learn afresh, as you make use of this resource; the  internet:- 1. The other night (October 16th 2012), someone gathered KES 3.92 Million at a gate, just like that. Here’s a hint…it was…

Malawi expects to earn KES 8.5 trillion a year from 3000 metric tons of this mineral. Kenya can produce up to 3600 metric tons. Do the math.