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6 days ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
In 2000, I was working at a bank and my boss decided to host a cocktail party for all our clients at his house. We all invited our customers and I, being in the public sector team, invited my parastatal clients made up of their managing directors and finance heads.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
Elon Musk is on the record as the single largest individual donor to President Donald Trumpās 2024 campaign. With his total contribution estimated at about $295million, that kind of money is sure to get one a seat at the White House Cabinet table. Elon was hot, until he was not.
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1 month ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
Earlier this month, I was sitting on the sidelines of a learning programme for chief executives of businesses in East and West Africa at a leading business school. A key learning delivery method for the school is the use of case studies that juxtapose academic precepts with real-life situations.
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1 month ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
Last week, I had the privilege of sitting on the sidelines of a class of African chief executives at a training programme in Kenya’s leading business school. Amongst the participants was a senior executive of a financial services industry regulator from Nigeria. The reason for his attendance: to learn what challenges business executives are going through so that the regulator can provide regulatory guidance within the business operational world.
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1 month ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
Last week I covered the story of the ignominious removal of 81 year old Seifi Ghasemi as the CEO of the American industrial gas giant Air Products. Ghasemi’s ejection first started by his failure to be re-elected as a director at the company’s annual general meeting in January this year.
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2 months ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” – Joan Collins, actress. Seifi Ghasemi, the Iranian born CEO of the American company Air Products, was removed from the industrial gas giant’s Board of Directors in January 2025. At the time of his removal, Ghasemi was 81 years old and had served as Chairman, President and CEO of the company since 2014.
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2 months ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
The dictionary definition of the word comprehension is “the ability to understand something.” It is also defined as “the setting of questions on a set text to test understanding, as a school exercise.” You must surely remember that part of your high school English studies, where you would be given a passage to read and then a set of questions would be asked to determine whether you could figure out that an adolescent Tom hastily emerging with adolescent Mary from a bush would certainly end up...
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2 months ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
A few decades ago, I was studying for my Master's degree in upstate New York. As my student visa was coming to its expiry date, I had to cross the border to Montreal, Canada to go to the US embassy there to renew the visa as was the rule.
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2 months ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
“State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can't read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.” (Source: Signal website) If you’re not signed up to the Signal messaging app, then you must be the only visitor in the “need-to-send-undercover-messages” corner of Jerusalem.
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Mar 16, 2025 | 
businessdailyafrica.com | Carol Musyoka
Deep in the windswept volcanic plains of the majestic Laikipia County lies a few acres of land on which I rear sheep and goats or shoats as they are collectively termed. My neighbours are primarily subsistence farmers, although a few immigrant fellow city slickers have recently taken up farming residency in the area.
