Imagine a country where:
- You can be stopped 12 times by ‘customs’ service during a 5 hours travel. That’s how you can first assess how free trade is taken into consideration.
- Investment concept is just a terra incognita word. Switching from a day to day P&L culture to an investment and ROI culture can be a tough one sometimes.
- Drinking nine green teas per day is a minimum requirement. That helps to turn oceans of data available to islands of insight, they say.
- For every investment decision you take, you should bear in mind that additional costs are particularly prevalent: maintenance costs, hiring talents to operate it and risk to failure. That’s real TCO.
- Cronyism sometimes is translated into a weird expression close to “familial and fragile management” in extreme difficult situation.
- Is Inch’Allah a wise expression of stoicism or an evil appearance of procrastination? Anyway that makes me remember the Peter Drucker expression: unless a decision has ‘degenrated into work’, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
- The Little Prince, reading his night story in the desert could be happy blowing his nose in the sky full of stars. Silence in the desert can make you deaf. Night in the desert is surely more securing than daytime.
- When you touch the financial structure or the forces shaping a business in a developing country, you should take into consideration the real impact of your choices: not only the potential changes in economics, but also the potential change in capabilities and in relationship.
