The Delta Perspective December 2012 Fortune Favours the Informed: The African Paradox Authors Andrew Snead - Managing Partner - asn@deltapartnersgroup.com Monica Moldovan - Principal - mm@deltapartnersgroup.com Maxime Bayen - Senior Research Analyst - mba@deltapartnersgroup.com KEY HIGHLIGHTS • Africa is unquestionably a continent of opportunity – its sheer size‚ rapid economic growth‚ expanding middle class and steadily improving governance indicators provide reason for optimism •
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Rosetta Stone can be qualified as a Hidden Champion according to criteria presented in A “ Hidden Champions of the 21 Century”‚ even though the level of public awareness about the company was approximately 74-79%‚ based on general population surveys. Even though the company is not “hidden”‚ but it is a “ champion” on the market of language- learning programs‚ and their success can be easily attributed to fulfillment of Hidden Champions characteristics. Lesson 1- Ambitious goals. The general
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The Globe The Paradox of Samsung’s Rise Samsung’s unlikely success in mixing Western best practices with an essentially Japanese business system holds powerful lessons for today’s emerging giants. by Tarun Khanna‚ Jaeyong Song‚ and Kyungmook Lee A s today’s emerging giants face the challenge of moving beyond their home markets‚ they have much to learn from the pathbreaking experience of South Korea’s Samsung Group‚ arguably the most successful globalizer of the previous generation. Twenty years
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Technologies that humans used in the Old Stone Age Fabricating and utilizing tools as well as the cultural transmission of technology became essential to the human mode of existence and were practiced in all human societies. Humans strike as being the only creatures that accommodate tools to create other tools. No human society has survived without technology. Due to evolution humankind has been able to prefect the mastery and transmission of tool making. Administrating fire exemplifies a
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The Paradox of Cell Phones With the fast development of the society‚ we have stepped into an era of information and technology. Cell phone‚ regarded as a main communication tool‚ is enjoying great popularity in the world. Some people even can’t live without it. While Naomi Baron‚ a professor of linguistics at American University in Washington‚ D.C. said‚ "What people like most about their mobile devices is that they can reach other people. What they like least is that other people can reach
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“Stone Cold” By Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline. The play “Stone Cold” is written by Joe Standerline and is based on the novel by Robert Swindells. The plot has two main characters‚ Link and Shelter‚ who are very different people. Link is a sixteen year old boy who now lives on the streets because he felt neglected at home. Shelter‚ in the other hand is completely different for Link. He comes across as an affectionate man taking in the people off the street but then his personality
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conventional perception of twins‚ they are not always the image perfect couple we have always imagined them to be. In the case of Abraham Verghese’s Cutting For Stone and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things‚ both authors establish a unique aspect on twins that many of us would not consider the accepted norm of twin “ideology”. In Cutting For Stone‚ we are presented with a epitomical situation of two twins that are conjoined by an artery in their heads. It’s an extremely typical scenario in which
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The Umbrella Paradox of Freewill In life‚ we can fulfill our dreams by knowing our limitations‚ but this is not always easy to determine. John Lennon’s famous quote‚ “life is what happens to you while you ’re busy making other plans‚” underlines the beauty of life’s startling episodes. Meaning‚ things don’t always go as planned. In this process the definition of freedom is shaped by our on-going battle with life; so we must understand the true definition of freedom in order to determine where freedom
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After reading the first few pages of Strangers in their Own Land‚ I realized that my political views were similar to the authors‚ so I was interested to see what she discovered by doing some in depth research on "The Great Paradox". This is the idea that people living in extremely poor states still tend to align with republican views‚ even though they are the ones who would benefit from more government aid. Up until this point in the book‚ I am still not convinced that there is a reasonable explanation
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Sorites Paradox poses the question as to what defines that whole as one. Essentially asking‚ how much of a part of a whole can you take away before the whole no longer is so (whole). Take a pile of sand. By definition‚ the sand clustered together is a pile. Even if you remove a grain of sand the pile remains. The Sorites Paradox poses the question‚ at what point when the grains are removed does the pile become not-a-pile. As with anything that deals with definition‚ the solution to this Paradox is a
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