The Optiven Group celebrates it’s Platinum or China anniversary this year, after serving stakeholders in the Real Estate sector for the last 20 years. The company’s growth has been pegged on a number of values – coupled with our purpose which has been to socially and economically transform our staff, customers and other stakeholders. This, the Optiven Group has done through the provision of state of the art products and services.
I recently saw this anthill near Lake Bogoria in Kenya and deeply thought we could draw from it, some key lessons for our business growth
We would like to take this opportune time to thank all those in Diaspora for supporting our vision of Economically and Socially empower and transform the Society. We toured several states in USA and we are very grateful for the many friends we made, the many relationships we created and for the innumerable warm handshakes.
We at Optiven Group will forever remain to be your humble servants. We exist to serve you
Days come and go at a faster rate than we expect. The year is also running fast like the rivers of the Aberdare Range. If you do not act now on your assignment, you may never do it and you automatically attract mediocrity in your precious life. Let me share with you here, what has so far worked for me. You can also try it:
Our just concluded visit to Raleigh, North Carolina was a game-changer for Optiven Group and to me as a person. This is a city that is entwined as a sister city with 5 other major world metropolises including Nairobi City. The city has very beautiful parks and North Carolina is classified as the most forested state.
There is need for the working force or at least the employable population to embrace the reality that sooner or later, a time will come when retirement will beckon. The realization of this truth is perhaps what contributes to the rising number of retirees living in misery once their time to leave the work force arrives.
In the presence of youth, the older generation is either jittery or confident – depending on how their world view of youth is shaped. It is not weird to hear the older generation lamenting about what has become of the youth in the current generation? Suffice to say that some have even failed to understand how to refer to this group of people and decided to christen them as Generation Z.
During one of my recent visit to Frankfurt, Germany, I had an opportunity to share a dinner with some three awesome Kenyan ladies who couldn’t individually manage to buy property back in their motherland. These women ingeniously decided to circumvent their temporary impediment by coming together to build a formidable real Estate portfolio as a team, through Optiven (www.optiven.co.ke).
Housing is part of the Big 4 and several opportunities present themselves looking for available investors to pick these hanging fruit. Here are three ways on how diaspora can be part of this:
There are three sources of brand Social Media attacks:
Every one of us wants to realize their dreams – to have a good family, to get into some good investments, to be top in an area of specialization, to enjoy the best that there is in life. But as a wise man once said, discipline is the bridge between dreams and accomplishments.
Ahead of the hearing of the case regarding the tax on transactions on 500,000/- and above, beginning this July, the business community in Kenya is looking to the courts for a refrain on the implementation of the tax.
Portuguese footballer Christiano Ronaldo is many things to many people. For majority of footballers he is literally goals… because he has the second-most international goals scored (85) among men’s association football players. When we talk about his worth, it is not everyday that anyone earns 21 million Euros in a year which is approximately 2,457,000,000 Kenya shillings.
Amani Ridge – The Place of Peace is an ultra-modern Mini-City that neighbours Nova Pioneer School and Tatu City. As one of Optiven Group’s prime projects, it is located only 3.2kms off Kiambu-Kamiti Road and is easily accessible from Kiambu Road and Thika Super-Highway, via the Eastern By-Pass.
You can take this quick fact to the bank. Kiambu County is one of the most strategic counties in Kenya. And here are some 10 Reasons why this County is the Best place to invest in today.
Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) – both formal and informal – make up over 90% of all firms and on average account for 60-70% of total employment and 50% of the World’s GDP. This is according to recent data provided by the International Council for Small Business (ICSB).
Are you planning to start up a business this year 2018? You could probably be struggling with the thought of where to get capital to get you started. Here are some 8 possible options for you to evaluate and choose from. Be my guest and read on:
Is Farida Karoney, the nominated Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban Development the force of change that Ardhi House has all along been waiting for?
East Africa remains the fastest-growing sub-region in Africa, with estimated growth of 5.6 percent in 2017, up from 4.9 percent in 2016. This is according to the recently launched 2018 African Economic Outlook.
Once in a while, especially when we are at crossroads, a sober voice of reason always comes in handy. At this dispensation of time, especially as Kenya tries to unwring her feet from the shackles of so much divisive political tensions, this voice of reason is imperative.