by Jonathan Cook | Feb 12, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 12 November 2024) To grow or not to grow is a key question facing founders once their business is off the ground. Noah (not his real name), a very enthusiastic and clearly effective entrepreneur in Kenya, just loves to sell. He wakes...
by Jonathan Cook | Jan 30, 2025 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 29 October 2024) In what respects will humans outperform AI in management? As a psychologist in management, I have felt pretty secure that my particular gift of understanding and facilitating human interactions would be difficult for...
by Jonathan Cook | Nov 27, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 1 October 2024) I have long been intrigued by the interplay between ordered structure and exuberant energy in human activities. When we have wonderful energy without the discipline of structure, the energy can be wasted in...
by Jonathan Cook | Oct 24, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 17 September 2024) Some apparently unique business ideas go boldly where no one has thought to go before, while other ideas fail because they have been tried before, but have been filtered out by some intrinsic flaw. Where is the...
by Jonathan Cook | Oct 9, 2024 | External articles
(Published in Business Day – 20 August 2024) As I was preparing this column I received the utterly shocking and devastating news that the chief developer in a small company I am associated with had suffered a sudden heart attack and passed away. Gone. It’s a...
