Our businesses are becoming more structured, more measured, more process-driven yet many are becoming less bold. We are building dashboards faster than we are building differentiated brands. In emerging markets, that is a dangerous imbalance. Africa does not reward...
Dr. MAWO MARTIN
Specializing in behavioral science.
Posts By Dr. MAWO
What Marketers Know That Economists Don’t?
In business, what we call “strategy” is often retrospective storytelling. We design frameworks. We build dashboards. We track KPIs to the decimal point. All of it gives us a comforting illusion of control. But the uncomfortable truth is this: many breakthroughs in...
Why Africa’s Business Growth Requires Behavioral Marketing Freedom
Across Africa, I observe a recurring mistake in business strategy: the belief that numerical roadmaps alone can solve market challenges. Spreadsheets are expanding. Dashboards are multiplying. KPIs are tightening. Yet sales are stagnating. The issue is not a lack of...



