When people talk about caring in business, they almost always mean caring for customers. But here’s the hidden truth: the way you care for your employees is the root system of your business. The way you treat your employees sets the tone for how they will treat your customers. Richard Branson once said: Clients do…| rochemamabolo
Most businesses are trained to chase efficiency, margins, and growth. Caring often looks like an “extra” something you do after you’ve hit your sales target. But the irony is this: when you genuinely care, the numbers take care of themselves. Caring slows you down enough to notice the human being behind the transaction. That’s where…| rochemamabolo
We often confuse love with loudness. We think it’s in the surprise getaways, the expensive gifts, or the dramatic speeches. Those things have their place, but they are not the foundation. At its core, love is far quieter, steadier, more ordinary. Love, in its most enduring form, is simply dependability. It’s the spouse who shows…| rochemamabolo
We live in an age where “authenticity” has become a rallying cry. “Just be yourself,” we’re told. And yes, there’s beauty in honesty. But authenticity on its own is not enough. What people really need from us is consistency. Imagine going to your favourite restaurant. You’ve raved about their food to your friends. You finally…| rochemamabolo
When we aim to win arguments, what we’re really saying is: my sense of being right is more important than our chance of moving forward. It feels good in the moment, like a sugar rush of pride. But it leaves a bitter aftertaste. Arguments won often mean relationships lost. In entrepreneurship, relationships are the lifeblood,…| rochemamabolo
I was watching a talk titled It’s time to embrace the mess by Rory Sutherland the other day, and I must admit, the lessons in it stayed with me long after the video ended. He has this gift of taking what looks like a simple business story and showing the deeper truths underneath. What struck…| rochemamabolo
There’s a quiet shift that happens the moment you make something, truly make it, with your own hands, voice, mind, or courage. Once you’ve assembled an electronic device, computers stop feeling like magic boxes, and start feeling like tools. Once you’ve given a speech, you stop fearing the microphone, and start seeing through every speech…| rochemamabolo
There’s an old, unspoken belief in many workplaces and homes: if you’re too kind, you’ll be walked over. If you’re too pleasant, people won’t take you seriously. And if you avoid raising your voice, you’re probably avoiding conflict altogether. In this worldview, strength looks loud, forceful, and commanding. Anything softer is dismissed as weakness. But…| rochemamabolo
There’s something quietly powerful about not needing to explain yourself. About trusting that those who matter will see your worth without you shouting for attention. Modesty in branding, leadership, and life isn’t about shrinking, it’s about standing firmly in your quiet confidence, knowing that true value eventually reveals itself. In a world obsessed with “Look…| rochemamabolo
There’s a familiar place we often retreat to: being busy. We wear it like a badge of honour, hoping it earns us a free pass, because we’ve been going non-stop, juggling a million things, rushing fr…| rochemamabolo
We see this pattern everywhere. When an industry struggles to attract young people, like farming, we reach for the same shiny solution: “Let’s make it sexy.” So we slap on new slogans: “Make agricu…| rochemamabolo
Sometimes life feels like clear skies and open roads, plans unfold, doors open, everything hums along. And then, without warning, the winds shift. A job is lost. A relationship fails. A dream crack…| rochemamabolo
There’s something comforting about a mountain. It doesn’t bark for attention. It doesn’t shout about its greatness. It just stands, solid, silent, steady, through storms, seasons, centuries. That’s…| rochemamabolo
In every room, in every family, in every team, there’s often at least one person whose gift is invisible: the one who holds space. They’re not always the loudest or the first to raise a hand. They …| rochemamabolo
Some people’s work comes with trophies and hashtags and standing ovations. But for most of us, our best work happens in moments no one sees, when we choose to show up fully for the task at hand, wi…| rochemamabolo
We live in an age that glorifies the spotlight. Be visible. Be heard. Be the brand. Be the voice. Be the main character in every story, every room, every conversation. But life, in its quiet honest…| rochemamabolo
One of my favourite movies is Good Will Hunting. It’s a 1997 film that still punches me in the gut nearly three decades later, a story that says more about life than a thousand self-help books ever…| rochemamabolo
To love is to live with an open hand, knowing that what you hold may not stay. It’s to pour out your tenderness without a receipt, to offer your presence without terms, to say yes to connection whi…| rochemamabolo
What was meant to unite us, our voices, our platforms, our digital commonsm, has, in so many ways, driven us apart. Once, we looked into another’s eyes and asked, “How are you, really?” Now we look…| rochemamabolo
One of my favourite, if not the favourite, football coaches of all time has to be, hands down, Vicente del Bosque. He is that rare figure in the game who has won everything there is to win, yet nev…| rochemamabolo
Life has a funny way of exposing us. When the hurt is fresh and raw, when we’re the ones on the receiving end of unfairness or betrayal, the world feels very black and white. We want the truth in n…| rochemamabolo
Sometimes, the most successful entrepreneurs I’ve met carry a quiet ache. They’ve mastered the art of showing up, of pushing through, but not necessarily the art of healing. And it shows, not alway…| rochemamabolo
There’s a quiet truth we often resist, especially in a world that celebrates self-made success and solo journeys: We need each other. Not out of weakness, but out of design. From a psychological pe…| rochemamabolo
There’s something quiet and powerful about the way life humbles you. Not in a loud or dramatic way, but in small, almost unnoticeable turns. It could be the job you thought you’d always have… until…| rochemamabolo
The list of things I’ve tried and failed at is honestly much longer than the list of things that have worked. And I’ve made peace with that. My approach to life and work has always been more like r…| rochemamabolo
Entrepreneurship is often painted as a thrilling ride, full of freedom, innovation, and dreams realised. And while that’s true in part, what’s often left out is the quiet, invisible part of the jou…| rochemamabolo
Keep your private life offline and don’t overshare on social media| rochemamabolo
“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky.” That Ojibwe saying is profoundly beautiful, poetic, wise, and deeply humbling. It reminds us of …| rochemamabolo
There’s this quote that I think about often that Life is not measured by time, it is measured by moments. Some are big, but most are small. It reminds us that a long life is not always a full…| rochemamabolo
It’s a strange feeling, to celebrate someone who is no longer here, and yet feels so present. Today, like every day, I carry you with me. In the way I think, in the way I try to be kind, in the way…| rochemamabolo
Sometimes life offers us no clear answers. The path ahead looks foggy. The options feel uncertain. The plans we’ve made crumble under shifting circumstances. What once felt solid suddenly sta…| rochemamabolo
Morgan Housel doesn’t just write about finance or business, he writes about human nature. That’s what makes his work in Same As Ever so timeless and relatable. In Chapter 9, titled “Too Much, Too S…| rochemamabolo
Some people see marketing as manipulation. Rory Sutherland sees it as alchemy. In a recent interview titled The Day Rory Sutherland Became a Marketing Genius, the legendary behavioral economist and…| rochemamabolo
Pace yourself. Take it easy. You’re allowed to breathe. Building a business isn’t a sprint. It’s not a quick burst of energy, nor is it a race where speed guarantees success. Building a business is…| rochemamabolo
It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find. There is a kind of beauty that only time can reveal. Like watching a flower bloom slowly, or waiting for bread to rise, there’s something s…| rochemamabolo
There’s a certain attraction, magnetism to power. Power promises results. It promises control. It promises speed. And in a world where we’ve been conditioned to measure worth in how fast we move an…| rochemamabolo
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A commonly misquoted phrase says: “Jack of all trades, master of none.” The full quote actually reads: “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a mas…| rochemamabolo
