Ghanaians do not manage emotions properly – Entrepreneur<\/b><\/p>\n Controlling envy and jealousy is the most powerful way to thrive in business – Dr. Addo<\/p>\n Feedbacks are not well taken by businesses due to emotions – Kama Group founder<\/p>\n Founder of the Kama Group of Companies, Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo, has said Ghanaian businesses have been hindered by envy and jealousy. <\/p>\n He attributed the non-performance of indigenous businesses and their inability to last to this canker.<\/p>\n Speaking with Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday (5 January), Dr Agyekum Addo said, \u201cAt the age of 60 to 65, I was still confronted with the question: why do companies collapse in spite of all the training that we give to staff, all the incentives, improvements in working conditions?\u201d <\/p>\n He lamented how important it is for Ghana to address the issue \u201cbecause it is affecting our politics, our businesses and the country.”<\/p>\n \u201cI see doctors going on strike, companies going on demonstrations, all for [better] working conditions. Why?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo, at 65, I enrolled in University of Ghana Business School for them to tell me why, in spite of these management trainings, companies collapse. And I took a topic \u2026 What do we do with our emotions?\u201d<\/p>\n The pharmaceutical pioneer said: \u201c\u2026 hatred, anger, joy, sadness \u2013 all these are emotions, and they affect our business lives.”<\/p>\n To answer all these questions, Dr. Agyekum noted that envy and jealousy are innate characteristics that may need a lot of emotional intelligence to deal with. He however believes that good control over them will help Ghanaian businesses grow.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving gone through all that, I realized that some of them you can address. But envy and jealousy are untouchable. You cannot see [them], it\u2019s innate. And that is where companies collapse from the manpower \u2026 [It] is so important. This is the biggest factor in your business: meanwhile, he is envious, jealous.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Agyekum Addo added, \u201cYou cannot tell him; if you tell him that, \u2018I see you are envious of me,\u2019 he\u2019ll tell you: \u2018How can I be envious of you?\u2019 We doubt, argue, defend and yet it is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Founder of the Kama Group of Companies, Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo Ghanaians do not manage emotions properly – Entrepreneur Controlling envy and jealousy is the most powerful way to thrive in business – Dr. Addo Feedbacks are not well taken by businesses due to emotions – Kama Group founder Founder of the Kama Group of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Founder](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/65895719.295.jpg\" "\\"Founder")
Founder of the Kama Group of Companies, Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n