November 10, 2025
Navigating the Next Wave of Growth: Why Sakeenah Co Ltd is the Best Management Consulting Firm in Mauritius
The Mauritian business landscape is more dynamic and competitive than ever. As companies look towards 2025 and beyond, the challenges of global volatility, rapid technological shifts, and evolving workforce expectations are impossible to ignore.
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November 5, 2025
Why Sakeenah Co Ltd is the Best Business Consulting Firm in Mauritius
In today's fast-paced Mauritian economy, businesses face a constant barrage of challenges from global competition and digital disruption to local operational hurdles.
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September 11, 2025
Avoiding the Truth-Default Trap
Somebody I know has been blatantly spreading lies for a while. It seems that many people are believing him... This made me stop and reflect: why are people so consistently bad at detecting lies?
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August 29, 2025
Digital Transformation for SMEs in Mauritius: A Practical Roadmap
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of the Mauritian economy, contributing nearly 40% of GDP and employing more than 50% of the workforce (Statistics Mauritius, 2023).
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August 21, 2025
Top Consulting Companies in Mauritius 2025: Why Sakeenah Group Stands Out
Mauritius has long been recognised as a gateway to Africa and Asia, a vibrant hub for financial services, trade, tourism, and entrepreneurship.
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August 13, 2025
5 Secrets of Great Leadership
Serendipity is when you find something amazing that you weren’t looking for. And last year, Google discovered something incredible… Entirely by accident.
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August 4, 2025
Small Changes... Big Sales
When it comes to products that solve people’s needs or pain points, one of the major angles is selling something that... Makes people’s lives easier.
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July 29, 2025
The case for putting people first again
The productivity of knowledge workers is coming centre-stage. And it is Covid-19 that is bringing it back into the spotlight.
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July 23, 2025
The Buddenbrooks effect: why family business fortunes fade
Owner-managed businesses are ubiquitous around the world. Their importance varies across the developed and the developing world.
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July 15, 2025
Mauritius Inc. - A serious case of gender hypocrisy?
Last year, around this time, I saw a post by one of my LinkedIn contacts proudly acknowledging the "valuable contribution of women who are very impactful in the company
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July 9, 2025
Business and professional cycling lesson from the first world chess champion (1886)
When Sir Dave Brailsford took over as head of British Cycling in 2002, the team couldn’t boast of anything remarkable.
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July 2, 2025
Aristotle and Cialdini Unite: How Mauritius’s Pension Reform Could Have Been Better Managed with the Science of Influence
Mauritius stands at fiscal and social crossroads. With the Contribution Sociale Généralisée (CSG) fund depleted and the Basic Retirement Pension (BRP) system under immense strain.
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June 25, 2025
June 18, 2025
Juggling the Generations in the workplace
Gone are the days when the workforce consisted of just two generations at the workplace, old-timers and ambitious newcomers waiting in the wings to take over.
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June 09, 2025
Why I encourage my salespeople to leverage discipline over motivation
In the dynamic world of sales, success often hinges on the ability to consistently perform at a high level.
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June 02, 2025
The Axe, the Flowers, and the Truth: What This Image Taught Me About Perception and Betrayal
They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but some pictures are worth a thousand realizations.
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May 26, 2025
Reciprocity - The Power of Giving First
According to renowned behavioral scientist Dr. Robert Cialdini, it’s because reciprocity is hardwired into us. In his seminal book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, he identifies reciprocity as one of the seven universal principles of influence that shape human behavior across cultures, industries, and eras.
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May 20, 2025
Driving past digitisation on the journey to digitalisation and finally digital transformation...
I was discussing with a few executives the need to develop a digital transformation strategy to stay ahead of the curve when I realised that many of them were actually stuck at the digitisation stage.
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June 16, 2024
Is sales a teachable skill?
I once heard a story about a salesperson (we’ll call him, Paul) who, after a successful year smashing his targets, was ordered by his manager to take a two-week vacation. Paul settled into his seat on the aeroplane, opened up a magazine and prepared for a fortnight of rest and relaxation. Except…
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May 21, 2024
Would you rather be wise or knowledgable
Despite often being used interchangeably, wisdom and knowledge are two very different things. For example, you can have all the business knowledge in the world but it does you little good if you don’t know how to apply it to make profit.
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May 21, 2024
Is Ethical Selling Really Possible?
No professional salesperson or retail outfit would admit to being unethical in their sales approach. If asked, every person in sales will claim to be honest, transparent and 100% ethical.
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April 30, 2024
A $10 Billion Mistake…
In 1985, a jury awarded more than $10 Billion in damages to Pennzoil, believing that Texaco had interfered with a contract the plaintiff had with Getty Oil. It was, at the time, the biggest civil judgement in American legal history.
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August 18, 2023
Tortoise or the hare: Can a company grow too fast?
Imagine you are a business owner. Would you say no if you were told you could achieve instant, meteoric growth for your business? Few can.
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April 3, 2023
Why Businesses Shouldn’t Go Soft on Workforce Productivity
Most everyone agrees to the notion that a happy employee is a productive employee. Engagement, morale, and job satisfaction drive workers to, well, work.
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March 18, 2023
Branding Lessons from my late Father In Law - Ismaël Ahmad Randera OBE
We all have a personal brand whether we are conscious of it or not. At the very least, it is what people say about us when we are not in the room.
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February 9, 2023
Leadership or Management?
There is a big difference between leadership and management in the world of business.
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February 9, 2023
Business Lessons from the Ant & Grasshopper Fable
The Goose with the Golden Eggs, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Hunter and the Woodman…Many childhood memories share the echo of Aesop’s fables.
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February 19, 2022
Should companies continue to insist their staff wear uniforms?
A recent discussion with one of my clients employing over 1,000 people prompted me to ponder over whether the use of uniforms in business is a thing of the past and one of those things that are mindlessly followed by companies or whether there was really a business case.
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October 20, 2021
Invest in a New Talent Strategy for Greater Productivity
Every business executive would love to find a new way for his organization to gain productivity and unlock new growth possibilities. The $25,000 question is how to do it.
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January 28, 2021
From USD 300 to USD 8,000 Per Month - The Success Story Of One Of My Mentees
Five years ago, when I started mentoring him, he was broke and broken. He had been trying many odd jobs and was barely surviving.
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January 22, 2021
5 Ways Productivity Training Benefits Your Workforce…and Boosts Your Bottom Line
As an organizational leader, what do you feel powers your business? Sales? Sure. But who powers the exchanges? Who drives the marketing to bolster those sales? Who commands the financial tractions and accounting? Who fuels all the other functions in between?
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January 12, 2021
How you too can reach financial independence with GTD®
In 2007 I discovered Getting Things Done® (GTD®) and David Allen. I had just been promoted to Deputy CEO of one of the biggest conglomerates in Mauritius.
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January 4, 2021
5 strategies I advise my clients to adopt as they start the new year
As we start the new year, many business leaders will be pondering over the challenges they will face in 2021. A year ago not many people would have predicted the devastating effect of COVID 19 on human lives and the economy.
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