Dr Patrick Ngugi Njoroge - An Independent Mind

INDEPENDENT MIND

“Totally devoid of ego and instinctively averse to self-advertisement” is how a senior Treasury official and long-serving central banker described him.

His style brings to public service a rare quality of humility and an aversion to the trappings of power and opulence.

During vetting Dr Njoroge demonstrated an independent mind, taking a different position to what MPs were pushing and also going against the government position on some issues.

He was, for example, forthright that he considers Kenya’s external borrowing excessive, saying the country must be careful in considering more debt and where the money was going.

This contradicted the National Treasury position, which is that the country’s borrowing is healthy and within the limits.

He also dismissed proposals by MPs to form a government bank to provide cheaper loans and bring interest rates down or simply introduce legislation to control bank lending rates.

“I think it would be a big mistake to even think that we can control interest rates through legislation. It will not work. That is why we moved from price control. Commercial banks just need to get confident to move ahead with market-based solutions that are sensitive for their businesses like control on inflation. This is something we have done in other countries by assuring the banks that the economy is under control, we will come up with a plan that is acceptable to all,” said Dr Njoroge.
 
The man in charge of Kenya’s money has turned down the offer to live in an expansive home in Nairobi’s Muthaiga and ride in a motorcade.

Dr Patrick Ngugi Njoroge, will instead be housed in communal accommodation in Nairobi’s Loresho estate with his fellow members of Opus Dei (Latin for "work of God"), an institution of the Catholic church.

The institution teaches that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity. Most of its members are lay people, with secular priests under a bishop.

When he was being vetted by MPs before his appointment by President Uhuru Kenyatta, Dr Njoroge was asked why he does not own property in Kenya and is still single at 54 yet his monthly salary at the International Monetary Fund was Sh3 million a month.

A MATTER OF CHOICE

“Yes I don’t have a single asset here in Kenya and this is where I am at this point and it doesn’t mean that this how it will be forever. I subscribe to being very deliberate about that. This is my economic model and may be years after retirement, I would want to invest in other things. That should not mean I have any financial inabilities. It comes with the profession,” the country’s ninth Central Bank governor said.

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Words Of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie I

“The outlook and attitudes of Our people have undergone drastic changes during this year. The nation has come to modernity and maturity. The people have been educated, not so much by formal, classroom instruction, but as a consequence of an increasingly broad and general exposure of life in the twentieth century and the world around them, Ethiopia has awakened. Ethiopians now demand more for themselves than their fathers possessed. They have acquired the desire to improve their lot and that of their children. They are willing and anxious to change.

This is what we have labored throughout Our life to accomplish: to bring our people to the point of awareness of the demands of modern life, to arouse in them the ambition to progress, to stimulate their latent desire for advancement and improvement.

This has now been achieved, and with the natural resources with which Almighty God has endowed our nation, the path to development has been cleared and it’s vistas lie before us.” 

H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie I

Hollow yet full of crap

The world is hollow yet it's full of crap, prepare to gamble.
I give
you a handful of chips
tips on what's to come.
av cried a ton of
tears,
drunk a tons of beer.
It's fun and fears
but learn to
persevere throughout the years,
kept my ears open, eyes looking mouth locked.
Don't rock the boat- if you can't swim,
nobody may be
there with a limb to lend,
a truth painful; yet unbend
too much
church got them saying we need a modern day Moses.
new testament in
hand, written in the blood of coming generations

Heich.

The Power of Pull & Serndipity

Shape Serendipity, Understand Stress, Reignite Passion The Power of Pull
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Serendipity can be shaped. Being in the right place at the right time
is not a new concept; the catchy little phrase has been with us since
childhood. But is a fortuitous encounter that leads to a new business
contract pure luck? Are some people luckier? Does luck last?

We believe you can shape serendipity. This is a very counter-intuitive
notion. After all, most of us believe that serendipity is pure luck.
How can you shape luck? While chance is an intrinsic element of
serendipity, we believe that you can significantly alter the
probability and quality of the unexpected encounters in our lives.

Three choices determine how we shape serendipity:

Where we spend our time. People are spending more time in virtual
environments, especially social network platforms, because they
instinctively sense that these environments are often rich catalysts
for serendipity.

How we spend our time. These physical and virtual environments attract
a large number of people. How do we stand out and get noticed so that
we attract unexpected encounters?

How we maximize the value of the unexpected encounter. If we are not
prepared when the unexpected encounter finally occurs, it will not
yield much value. Listening deeply, being attentive, and understanding
what the other person is involved in prove invaluable in converting a
chance meeting into a more valuable sustained relationship that keeps
on giving.

Finding and pursuing passion in work. We all need to more effectively
integrate our passions and our professions. This is a very popular
topic with the readers who approach us, eager to know more. Why
integrate passion and profession? Even more importantly, how?

The truth is, we all have the potential for passion. Some of us are
lucky enough to be already pursuing our passion as our profession. The
rest of us can find or develop our passion. We can pursue the passion
that has lurked inside since our childhoods, bring it to the surface,
and nurture it. This might mean that we redesign our careers, change
fields, pursue reduced workloads, or develop the parts of our jobs
that are truly meaningful and satisfying.

Small moves smartly made. Many people tell us that the sub-title of
our book really speaks to them: small moves, smartly made, can set big
things in motion. That is ultimately the power of pull. By harnessing
the techniques of pull, we find that we do not need massive resources
to have big impact. Pull allows us to draw out people and resources
that can significantly amplify our own efforts. Rather than financial
leverage, think of it as capability leverage.

And it is a form of leverage that we can all tap into as individuals.
It isn't just for companies. This is a key message. It says that the
changes that need to be made in business start with each of us as
individuals. If we don't begin to master the techniques of pull in our
personal lives, our institutions will have little possibility of
change. On the other hand, if we begin to understand the power of pull
at an individual level, we will become catalysts for much broader
change at the institutional level and beyond. By using the power of
pull as individuals, we not only achieve our own potential more
effectively, we set into motion processes that will help institutions
to achieve their potential as well.

This is another key message to relieve stress. We don't have to wait
helplessly for massive institutions to "get it." We have the ability
to make change happen ourselves. And there is a pragmatic path that
does not require us to make massive investments of time and effort and
wait long periods of time to reap the rewards. We can move in
incremental steps that accumulate over time into fundamental change