{"id":113728,"date":"2015-05-03T05:29:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T05:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=113728"},"modified":"2015-05-05T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:53:01","slug":"union-savings-and-loans-ceo-schools-students-on-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/union-savings-and-loans-ceo-schools-students-on-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Savings and Loans CEO schools students on business \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Union Savings and Loans, Mr. Philip Oti Mensah has urged students to channel their energies into\u00a0generating business ideas instead of focusing on\u00a0academic work alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Mensah made the call while addressing students at the Pentecost University College (PUC) in Accra last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He encouraged the students to strive on building a business network\u00a0adding that\u00a0\u201cWhile in school you should do your best to engage the world and build a network, at least for me that is what counted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He advised that &#8220;once you get the opportunity, you need to be very stubborn about what you want to do. Stubborn in terms of you not following different things and listening to different ways of driving your business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113731\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-6.jpg\" alt=\"PUC-Leadership 6\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHistory tells us that only few Ghanaian businesses are really successful and are able to survive beyond two decades. It means that fundamentally something is wrong. If you want to be different you have to do things differently,\u201d he told the students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113730\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-5.jpg\" alt=\"PUC-Leadership 5\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-5.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-5-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CEO of the Unions Savings and Loans was speaking at this year\u2019s Informative Tertiary Train (iTT) Summit held at the Pentecost University College.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summit is an annual programme organized by VIPZ CONSULT to provide in-depth information to tertiary students and to help bridge the tertiary-corporate institutions gap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113729\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership.jpg\" alt=\"PUC- Leadership\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PUC-Leadership-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2015 edition of the annual symposium on leadership was dubbed \u201cEmerging global leaders forum via self-development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Mensah touched on broad topics of leadership skills in business, strategic thinking skills, organizing skills, critical thinking and innovation as well as self-motivation skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organizers of the programme said Mr.\u00a0 Philip Oti \u2013 Mensah\u2019s was strategically chosen to speak at the symposium because of successes he had chalked as a result of giant strides he took in rebranding the Union Savings and Loans which enabled the institution to win the \u201cBest SME Finance Company Ghana 2014\u201d award by the Global Banking and Finance review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Union Savings and Loans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Union Savings and Loans, Mr. Philip Oti Mensah has urged students to channel their energies into\u00a0generating business ideas instead of focusing on\u00a0academic work alone. 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