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Peter Opondo

To succeed, corporates should think like venture capitalists

All corporates face the need to create an ecosystem dedicated to exploring, nurturing, and growing new opportunities.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

To succeed, corporates should think like venture capitalists

Writer’s block is just a myth

Writer’s block is just a myth

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Why we should always challenge the accepted ways of doing things

Why we should always challenge the accepted ways of doing things

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Luck deserves more credit than we give it in our affairs

Luck deserves more credit than we give it in our affairs

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Successful innovations are built on what exists, not from the blue

When we review innovations like Uber, Airbnb and Amazon (e-commerce), there is always the temptation to think that such enterprises represent....

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Successful innovations are built on what exists, not from the blue

Why you don't have to own ‘stuff’ to scale a business

Companies have always been designed to grow in order to take advantage of economies of scale.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Why you don't have to own ‘stuff’ to scale a business

Why success in life is more random than you thought

Can a video of a group of young men and women dancing with food on their plates trigger a global sensation?

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Why success in life is more random than you thought

Overcoming collective blindness: Lessons from 9/11 terror attack

Collective blindness occurs when people hired into an organisation share the same characteristics like intelligence, psychological profile and culture

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Overcoming collective blindness: Lessons from 9/11 terror attack

Why you must dig your own job in today's workplace

Rather than wait to be told what to do, today more than ever, organisations need employees who will dig their own jobs.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Why you must dig your own job in today's workplace

The illusion of broken systems in organisations

There is no such thing as dysfunction in any organisation, each is aligned to achieve the results it currently gets.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

The illusion of broken systems in organisations

How to unleash the power of corporate innovation

No effort should be spared to understand real customer needs and problems.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

How to unleash the power of corporate innovation

Exploit constraints to innovate

Questions that foster new ways of thinking and unlock change.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Exploit constraints to innovate

From mystery to heuristics; how we develop knowledge

The second stage of knowledge development is when we start developing general rules of thumb about what works and what doesn’t.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

From mystery to heuristics; how we develop knowledge

Kenyan hospitals are sitting ducks for digital disruption

If you desire to be an innovation catalyst and a creative problem solver, then you might want to become what management practices writer...

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Kenyan hospitals are sitting ducks for digital disruption

Disrupted? Try converting your razor into blade

What happens when your blade becomes easily available almost at zero cost to the consumer? This is what happened to the music industry.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Disrupted? Try converting your razor into blade

Of Mediocristan and Extrimistan business worlds

In the Mediocristan world, you would aim to charge a standard price to get as many people as possible to spend on your product.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Of Mediocristan and Extrimistan business worlds

Only the paranoid survive, so let Ndegwa be

Only the paranoid survive, and Safaricom's CEO has every right to be

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Only the paranoid survive, so let Ndegwa be

Why 10,000-hour rule is no guarantee to success in business

Author Malcolm Gladwell popularised the 10,000-hour rule in which he argued that the key to achieving world-class expertise...

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Why 10,000-hour rule is no guarantee to success in business

Technology disrupts, but it also creates new prospects

We used to live in a linear world where progress was incremental, sequential and straightforward.

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Technology disrupts, but it also creates new prospects

Potent mix of experience and new voices good for business growth

Standard Group Plc CEO Orlando Lyomu wondered recently during an all-hands meeting whether veteran managers could generate fresh...

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Potent mix of experience and new voices good for business growth

Would you rather be a fox or hedgehog?

Philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers throughout history into two categories: those who pursue a single big idea ...

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Would you rather be a fox or hedgehog?

Key lessons from Jeff Bezos’ last letter to shareholders

After Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as the CEO of Amazon after 27 years in charge earlier in the year...

By Peter Opondo 3 years ago

Key lessons from Jeff Bezos’ last letter to shareholders

The one thing that convinces a bank to loan your business cash

Many critics will tell you that it is impossible to obtain unsecured business lines of credit without the use of personal guarantees.

By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago

The one thing that convinces a bank to loan your business cash

How futurism offers the antidote to chaos

Futurism is the process of discovering what will change our world, analysing its potential impact on specific activities, and then communicating to stakeholders or colleagues what lies ahead.

By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago

How futurism offers the antidote to chaos

Why recycling is the new green business frontier

Recycling is not just a matter of recovering recyclable material, it is a total economic system.

By Sospeter Opondo 10 years ago

Why recycling is the new green business frontier

The insurance industry needs to weather climate change

Let us suspend debate over climate change and simply look at the reality of today’s weather: it’s changing, and not for the better.

By Sospeter Opondo 11 years ago

The insurance industry needs to weather climate change

Essential qualities of promotable employees

One of the most common questions asked by an employee of his or her company is, “What can I do to get promoted?”

By Sospeter Opondo 11 years ago

Essential qualities of promotable employees

Why IT directors need a digital makeover

Information technology and strategy are now so much a part of each other that senior managers are — or should be — information officers.

By BY SOSPETER OPONDO 11 years ago

Why IT directors need a digital makeover

Win-win is for loser

Nearly every negotiating book ever written takes a win-win approach to agreements.

By BY SOSPETER OPONDO 11 years ago

Win-win is for loser

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