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Champagne Taste, Beer Budget How to Bootstrap and Scale a Successful Professional Services Firm
Acknowledgements. Foreword. Preface. CHAPTER ONE: DREAM BOLD BRASH DREAMS WITH AUDACITY. CHAPTER TWO: OBEY YOUR THIRST. CHAPTER THREE: REMEMBER IT IS A BUSINESS FIRST. CHAPTER FOUR: BUILD A TRIBE. CHAPTER FIVE: LEAD BY LISTENING, MANAGE BY DEBATE. CHAPTER SIX: STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD. CHAPTER SEVEN: IF YOUR CAN’T MEASURE IT, YOU CAN’T MANAGE IT. CHAPTER EIGHT: WHEN SUDDENLY, YOU CAN AFFORD CHAMPAGNE
Biography
Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia ‘ENK’ is an entrepreneur, business advisor and a qualified lawyer in the UK and Ghana with almost twenty years’ experience advising international companies investing in Africa. Widely acknowledged as an outstanding corporate lawyer, he is also a thought leader on entrepreneurship in Africa. He is the author of the textbook ‘Kuenyehia on Entrepreneurship’ and for ten years taught entrepreneurship at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. In 2021, he became a Professor of Professional Practice at University of Buckingham. Currently Chairman of Keystone Solicitors, Elikem is best known for founding Oxford & Beaumont Solicitors, a globally recognised leading law firm that merged with ENS Africa in 2015 to create Africa’s largest law firm, with almost 1 000 employees. Prior to starting Oxford & Beaumont, he was part of the team that established United Bank for Africa Ghana and earlier in his career, he worked as an International Banking lawyer at the London office of Linklaters LLP. Mr. Kuenyehia has also had stints in brand management at SC Johnson and Diageo, both in the United States of America. Current and previous non-executive board memberships include Access Bank Ghana Plc, Goldkey Properties Limited, Sentinel Asset Management Limited, Google Ghana, Hollard Insurance Ghana, Chase Petroleum and at the State Interests and Governance Authority (where he was a representative of the then President of Ghana). Mr. Kuenyehia, who is the Honorary Consul of Finland in Ghana, has a BA in jurisprudence from University of Oxford and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
