Jeff Bezos was doing an interview on how Amazon beat other companies? He answered saying that his secret was relentless innovation. What is innovation? Innovation is not a big vocabulary but it simply means change and doing things differently. The role of innovation is key because doing things the way we did will not bring different results.

We always desire to have a beautiful day but it’s a different ball game making it beautiful. Whats a beautiful day? Is it a sense of emotional stability, a happy mood, state of good health, vigour or energy, a good spiritual status? All these may mean a beautiful day to one person or the other.

By Kate Khasoa, Brand Strategist

For any business, a mission and vision helps to provide employees with a purpose. The mission and vision of an organization are integral to the company’s strategy. This is because they are used to define future goals and modus operandi.

The Optiven Group is one of the few companies associated with the real estate sector that has thrived for over 20 years in Kenya. It’s logo is familiar with a cross section of stakeholders and is a well known even among school going children. Why, you may ask? Because in that time Optiven Group has made huge steps in impacting the society.

It’s one thing to get to the top but it’s a different ball game remaining at the top. What does it mean to be at the top? It could be the place you work, your achievement of a key target, the celebration of a win, being under an authority, performance of your tasks or responsibilities, having an abundance mentality, and believing there’s enough for all of us. All these are reasons you may consider to be at the top.

Our Winter as a country is the emergence of the third wave of Corona. Optiven has adapted a new slogan for this period in the belief that all this will pass, thus #WeShallConquer. Tough times indeed provide opportunities such as the current virtual meetings that connect people globally.

The biggest enemy of our time is the continued changes that face us amidst the pandemic of Covid 19. The third wave has come with a new force where it is expected to increase the number of infections. I also continue to request for all who are not tested to take courage and be tested once you are going through any of the symptoms.

One of the goals of GoGreenNaOptiven is to find unique interventions that support sustainability in living. Of this sustainability, food takes a top role and as such becomes a topic of interest. Looking at the above subject, the question then becomes, how do you dry fruits?

Working hard enables us to gain profit for what we do. But what is it that qualifies us to be hard workers?

Without growth, redundancy sets it. This is why we move from being children to teenagers to adults so that growth can have a purpose. Growth has been defined differently by different schools of thought. Generally, it is the ability to learn new skills.

It is Oprah Winfrey, the American media mogul and philanthropist who defined passion as energy. She added that it is followed by the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. I wish to add that this is great but when it is topped up with doing what you do without any struggle, then that is real passion.

Many if not all of us have dreams. A dream could be a new life philosophy. A better version of yourself is a step towards realising your dream. How then can you exhume your dream and resuscitate it to reality?

Under the guidance of its new administration, the University of Nairobi (UoN), led by Vice Chancellor Prof Stephen Gitahi Kiama is on a mission. This leading University in Africa has a key role to play towards acceleration of the country’s industrial development.

The ability to shine at what you do is not automatic. It calls for a change, for a digging in, for a looking out on how to improve. The difference among those who make it and those who give up, remains the biggest challenge and differentiator with those who end up shining.

There is a common adage that if you think you can’t then maybe you cant and you are right. It has been paraphrased over the years by different speakers from the author of the said quote, the famous entrepreneur Henry Ford who said, “ whether you think you can or you cant either way you are right! ” So how can we turn our thoughts to position us to think rightly by being positive?

Following the launch of the GoGreenNaOptiven campaign, the question for Green Ambassadors has been, what can I do to make our planet better? This is a great development seeing that the Optiven Foundation and it’s partners will be using the campaign to further stamp it’s desire to protect the environment through an award kitty that will single out those making the difference.

At the center of the #GoGreenNaOptiven agenda, is the need for an understanding of why this campaign is necessary for our planet. This comes amidst a growing concern on the depletion of energy resources which will form the focus of our consideration in this article.

Many if not all of us have had an experience with rejection. This means that a situation presented an opportunity which you may have thought that was a positive for you, but it turns out it was not – instead, it was rejected – and that rejection ended up to have affected you in one way or another.

Time and again, it has been said that honesty is the central idea that catapults growth. It has been defined as, ‘ the facet of moral character that connotes and connects integrity. Other schools of thoughts describe honesty as thinking in a straight forward manner, the absence of lying or cheating.