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Well, we had yet another mini competition the other day. Today, we’re announcing the people who won themselves a copy of “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days“. They are:
That’s how easy it is to be a winner over here, stay tuned for more and better competitions.
Incase you want this book, we’re sorry your only ope is Amazon or a bookshop near you.
On 14th November, the League of Young Professionals will host Dr. Laila Macharia, the chairperson of Kenya Private Developer’s Association. She will talk on “Preparing for the Coming Property Boom“.
Dr. Laila Macharia 39, is principal of Scion Real, a Nairobi-based advisory and investment firm focused on real estate and infrastructure. In addition to her rich background in investment services, Dr. Macharia has wide experience managing international projects and transactions including at the New York office of Clifford Chance, a leading global law firm, and at Kaplan & Stratton in Nairobi.
She also has a strong track record leading constructive change in the private and public sectors. At USAID’s regional mission in East Africa, for instance, she led an effort to restructure, regionalize and regulate the freight industry along the Northern Corridor.
She is currently the Chairman of the Kenya Private Developers Association, a Trustee and Former Chairman of the Lollipop Project, the Vice Chairman of the Republican Club of Kenya and a director of several private companies.
Laila Macharia is a corporate finance lawyer admitted to practice in Kenya as well as in New York and Maryland. She holds a BA in Planning from the University of Oregon and several law degrees, including a doctorate in law from Stanford University. Dr. Macharia teaches executive education at Strathmore Business School and contributes regularly to the Business Daily newspaper as a columnist.
She is also among the six Kenyans who have been named Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) Fellows class 2010.
The talk will be at the Marble Arch Hotel in Nairobi on 14 November 2010 starting at 6 p.m. Entry is free but please carry Kshs 250/- to cater for ‘refreshments’.
Kindly plan to attend. It’s a talk you can’t afford to miss. The Like Chapaa team will be there, we hope to see you!
Well, we had a mini-competition the other day. We decided to give the book to everyone who participated. Cool, he? maybe next time pia wewe utapata kitu just for participating!
So here are the winners, in no particular order:
Guys, thank you for participating. Please enjoy the book. Do let us know how you like it. 🙂
If you are late and you want The Richest Man in Babylon, you can get it by clicking here.
We’re aiming to have competitions like this regularly on Like Chapaa, please stay tuned. What kind of prizes would you like? Leave a comment below to tell us.
If you’ve learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let’s watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons:
A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But what he’s doing is so simple, it’s almost instructional. This is key. You must be easy to follow!
Now comes the first follower with a crucial role: he publicly shows everyone how to follow. Notice the leader embraces him as an equal, so it’s not about the leader anymore – it’s about them, plural. Notice he’s calling to his friends to join in. It takes guts to be a first follower! You stand out and brave ridicule, yourself. Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire…
What’s the lesson here? To be a leader takes guts, but you are not a leader if you are alone – you need followers and you need to embrace your first followers as equals – you need to make them as visible as you are because they validate you.
Let’s play pretend. Let’s say you are a woman, with one beloved son. Just play along. So your son is in From 3 and is having REAL trouble with Math at school. So for the school holidays, you decide to find a tutor for him. Who would you hire:
Who would you hire? My guess is that you, and almost everybody else, would hire Mr. Bob. Would it matter if Mr. Bob never went to uni? I think all that matters is that Mr. Bob can get your son’s grades up, no? How many kids would Mr. Bob need to teach to make huge sums of money at today’s rates?
“Most people are looking for a magic bullet, and rather than trying to figure out how to earn money themselves, they ‘outsource’ it to some university or degree program. That way, the reasoning goes, they can read some books, take a couple tests, get a degree, and…then what? Money falls down from trees?” – Ramit Sethi
Sorry, but it doesn’t work that way! So what if you get a degree? If you want to earn significant amounts of money you have to WORK. You have to work hard at understanding your customers, and presenting yourself in such a way that they will just come to you. Like Mr. Bob did (above).
The alternative is to dream about earning money and do nothing about it. Or worse, get a worthless degree that costs you lots of money but doesn’t help you increase your earnings.
We’ve gotten frequent emails from people asking questions that we have answered very well in past articles – even though those may be from a year or two away. Other people have simply been asking for an easier way to access past articles from Like Chapaa.
Well, we listened. We have just completed building an elegant Archives section where each past articles is listed by month, all the way back to 2007 when we started!
Click here to access the Like Chapaa Archives.
We’d like to think that there’s a lot of information that may help you in our past work, now you have an easier way to access it so go ahead and do just that. Good luck!
It does not even matter what “it” is, I’m confident that you can do it.
Van Gogh famously said, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” What if you never attempt to write that novel? What if you never attempt to start that business? What if you never attempt to steer toward your true north? In the end, you might regret some of the failed leaps, but you’ll surely regret all of the times you failed to even try.
Goethe encourages us: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
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