Retired Captain Prince Kofi Amoabeng, the founder of the defunct UT Bank has wasting someone’s time is a partial murder.
Kofi Amoabeng admitted that one of Africa’s biggest challenges is how Africans waste time.
According to Kofi Amoabeng, as humans and beings alive, all humans have is time, adding that one commits partial murder when they waste someone’s time.
Speaking during a lecture at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Prince Kofi Amoabeng stated, “One of the challenges I find in Africa and every concern Africa is worried about is keeping to time. I like the way you laugh, but it is not something you should laugh about.
You see, as humans and being alive, all we have is time. In other words, your life is just the time you have here on earth. If somebody lives 70 years, it means he had 70 years of time. I find that to respect any human being, you respect their time.
If you disrespect their time, you have disrespected the whole human being; it is that serious”.
He further added, “The biggest crime in the law book is murder. Murder is when you shorten somebody’s time they have on this earth. So if you waste somebody’s one hour, you have committed partial murder. This is how serious it is. So in dealing with people or respecting people, if you get it right, that is ultimate customer service.
When somebody walks to you and is looking for a service, use as little of their time as possible and give their life or time back to them for them to decide what they want to do with it”.
The time that you take to serve them, make sure it is quality time, and they find it memorable because there are two aspects to time. The share quantity of it and the quality of it.
Quantity you don’t determine it qualifity you can do something about it. So, in customer service and to win clients, make sure you deal with them in the shortest possible time, and if you want to extend it, ask for their permission, show concern and don’t waste their time because you are wasting their life”.
In other news, Prince Kofi Amoabeng has told President John Mahama to create 10 Ghanaian billionaires.
Prince Kofi Amoabeng urged President Mahama to choose young, honest Ghanaians and support them by paying their taxes to allow their business to stand.
Addressing the President directly at the Fourth First National Bank (FNB) Head of State Invitational Golf Tournament at the Achimota Golf Club last Friday, Prince Kofi Amoabeng stated, “My suggestion is that, apart from helping the poor people with the employment arrangement, we should try to create at least 10 millionaires or billionaires in Ghana. Deliberately”.
“You can choose people, young people, who are honest and pay their taxes and have business to stand for, and intentionally, the government backs them up with grants, with contracts and things like that. To grow them so that you go across internationally and everything, and project the name of this country.”
“So, Mr President, identify, please, not only NDC, but genuine business people and push them, encourage them, so that they will become successful for our dear country,” he said.
Mr Amoabeng further detailed two major problems hindering Ghana’s economic acceleration.
He added, “One other thing which really freaks me is the proposed Accra commercial project. Every right-thinking person who spends about seven hours to go to Kumasi they only want to pay even 1,000 cedis so they can get there in time and conduct their business and come back.”
“I personally had a debt recovery which took eight years. And you ask yourself, somebody has come for your money, give you a collateral, it’s not paying, why should it take eight years?”
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@ghnow_ “Wasting someone’s time is partial murder” – Kofi Amoabeng #GHnow #fyp ♬ original sound – GHnow
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