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Be so good at what you do that we can’t get our eyes off of you - Steve Martin, Actor Hey! Opinion shaper, My warmest New Year wishes to you and yours. From maintaining the course of Mastery in our respective crafts that we set out in 2016, to challenging ourselves to step out of our comfort zones in 2017, we are going to sustain the momentum this year by focusing on one of the most important people in our lives: The Customer This is any person whom we are fortunate enough to be of influence, and in the present context it is any person who looks up to us for more light. As you can already tell, the theme this year is on building and strengthening meaningful relationships by regularly adding value to them. The great motivational speaker Zig Ziglar once said that you can get anything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Therefore, our aspiration this year and beyond should be to make exciting our customers our c...

The University of Nairobi’s deregistration of Meru Senator’s academic credentials after investigations by the EACC unearthed forgery in his prior entry qualifications, has yet again brought to the fore the need for a thorough audit of degree qualifications as well as the quality control and security systems of the entire university examination process. If the said audit is to be conducted by the Commission of University Education (CUE) in respect of locally acquired qualifications, then it behoves them to extend the exercise to foreign qualifications as well.  ​ This can provide an additional level of guarantee to respective stakeholders on the authenticity of foreign qualifications presented to them by such graduates in addition to CUE’s institution Recognition and Equation check currently in place. As Kenyans holding a foreign academic qualification, we find ourselves sucked in this debate, by association, our Alma Mater having been mentioned in the above-mentioned invest...

‘As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – Every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.’                                                                                                   Astronaut John Glenn John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth aboard a space capsule in 1962 at speeds of up to 17,000 miles per hour, thrice circling the globe in less than five hours. The mission,which was critical to understanding the human body’s reaction to outer spac...

There’s an African fable that goes: In the jungle when  the lion wakes up early in the morning, its prayer is for God to make an appointment between itself and a deer – and that He does not assist either of them after that.                      You can bet that this one was narrated by a lioness seated somewhere under a tree, leisurely picking its tooth with a hare’s rib. Anyway, doesn't it kind of explain what ascending to power is like? History has shown, time and again, that only those who leave the battleground alive get to determine how the events of a war will be recollected. While the latter might receive mentions as worthy adversaries and heroes (by their own folks), generally the victor, now  the people’s champion ,remains etched firmly in the minds of the populace as their strong protector who can be relied upon to lead by averting any internal or external a...