1. Freetown, clusters and competitiveness. In business, competition is generally regarded as good for the consumer and the economy as a whole. The business owners who query how market competition benefits their firms are, I suspect the last dinosaurs of the private sector. Most businesses have largely woken up to the advantages; and clustering, or to be technical - agglomeration economies, where firms from the same industry gather together in close proximity, would seem to e

Advice for both sexes on how to think like a winner and maintain your professional progress in Sierra Leone! #Video #Entrepreneur #FatuYumkella #MariamaWurie

Fatou Wurie, Madonna Thompson, Sanpha Koroma, Junior Navo, Alfred Akibo-Betts and others share some key business success tips for Sierra Leone. #Video #Entrepreneur #AlfredAkiboBetts #FatouWurie #MadonnaThompson

It has been a stellar couple of years for Anthony Navo Junior. His TV station’s ‘Sierra Leone Decides’ series has become compulsory pre-election viewing for Sierra Leoneans home and abroad. He pulled off a stunning media coup with the Presidential Candidates’ Debate on the 15th February. BBC Media Action has Africa Young Voices (AYV) radio down as the most listened to radio station in the North and West of Sierra Leone, and his media empire has won awards from AWOL and the

There is no denying the amount of work still to be done in the area of Sierra Leone’s gender relations. One way that change is arriving is through the rapidly growing number of positive, resourceful women who are leading businesses and organisations that make an impact, as well as leave inspiration in their wake. They are professionalising their respective sectors, and improving the social and business landscape for women and men in Sierra Leone. How would you describe your j

Female entrepreneurs are good for business, good for progress and good for economic development. Success for the African woman entrepreneur is success for the economy. They are driven by resilience, determination and the desire to provide for their families. In a slightly belated recognition of International Women's Day, Insight Media and Communications takes a look at conditions for our continent's female entrepreneurs. #women #Entrepreneur #Africa #GenderBasedViolence

If you have never failed, you have probably never tasted real success either. Failure is a direct by product of innovation, initiative, pushing boundaries, taking risks and daring to think beyond the limits of our current boundaries. Thomas Watson Sr., the man who built IBM into an international business powerhouse, said, "If you want to succeed quickly, double your failure rate." At Insight magazine, we would like you to tell us about a significant professional failure of yo