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Kwabena A-Manager – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:39:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg Kwabena A-Manager – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 You’re Powerful http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/youre-powerful Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:39:56 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11835 If they say I can’t, And I say I can, I have to choose whose word I believe, And then prove it! It’s tempting to choose what they say, because it’s easier to prove; Just do nothing

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]]> Little Drops or a Heavy Downpour http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/little-drops-heavy-downpour Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:07:16 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11832 There’s a reason we care about hurricanes. They come upon us all of a sudden. Cable TV, Mayors, Governors and FEMA jump in. On the other hand, sea levels are rising every day and have been doing so for a long time. In the long run, whether is instantaneous like a hurricane or drip drip …

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]]> Competing with Artificial Intelligence http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/competing-artificial-intelligence Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:05:22 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11830 I was just reading an article about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going me to make me obsolete in a few years, which was a little disheartening. As I thought about the article, it occurred to me that there are few areas I can always have the advantage over AI  if I work on them. …

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]]> Clear Your Mental Cache and Restart http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/motivation-self-help/clear-mental-cache-restart Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:24:10 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11826 Occasionally,  we clear our computer cache and history when performance is cranky. Once everything has failed, the IT expert on the other end of the phone may even ask you to do this. In many cases, there is improvement in performance, even if it doesn’t solve the whole problem. We need to do this to …

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]]> Transitions in Africa: The Two Sides of the Story http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/transitions-in-africa-the-two-sides-of-the-story Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:42:24 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11817 This months elections occurred in two African countries, Ghana and the Gambia. On Dec 1, 2016, Gambia went to the polls in which, unexpectedly, opposition candidate Adama Barrow defeated long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh. Ghana followed up on Dec 7. Here also the leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the main opposition party, Nana Addo …

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]]> Good News: Child Mortality Decreasing http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/child-mortality-decreasing Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:21:13 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11791 A new UN reports says between 1990 and 2015, child mortality decreased by a whopping 53%! Looking at the number of children who die under 5 years, the number was 12.7 million in 1990, but projected to be under 6 million in 2015. In Africa, oil-rich Angola has the highest rate of child deaths up …

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]]> African Healthcare: Diabetes, Cancer, Other NCDs Catch up with Malaria http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-healthcare-ncd-non-communicable-diseases Sun, 24 May 2015 13:30:43 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11728 It is no longer malaria and tuberculosis. In the past, the two diseases dominated any healthcare conversation when the subject was about Africa. Times have changed. Today, diabetes, cancer, and heart  and respiratory diseases are emerging as the top killers in Africa. Though infectious diseases remain a threat, the trendline is changing due to the …

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]]> There will always be Garbage In http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/filter-out-garbage Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11526 By Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager There is a popular saying that ‘garbage in, garbage out’.  What this means is that if you receive poorly refined instructions, codes, methodology, you act on it as you receive it. When this is true, it reduces one to the level of a robotic machine or a lower level being. What …

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]]> Motivating Tomorrow’s Leaders: Doing it While the Plane is Still on the Runway http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/motivate-leaders-ghana-kirbymanager Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:35:06 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11511 by Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager Doing something and feeling at the end that you did the right thing at the right time gives a kind of a sweet feeling. Last week I was at Aketenchi, a village in the Western Region of Ghana to help train health workers as part of the Ghana’s grassroots healthcare delivery …

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]]> Less Can be More in Speeches: Beware of Selfishness http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/personal-branding/time-conscious-speaker http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/personal-branding/time-conscious-speaker#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:12:14 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11504 by Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager Why do speakers often go over the time offered to them by their host or organizers? The simple answer is that we’re just selfish. We love to take more than we are given. It’s a pleasurable thing to do. When you’re going to give a speech, one thing you need to …

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