Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Everything You Need to Know About Business, I Learned in Nairobi.

The Cycle of Poverty is a Mindset, not a Condition.


We drove out of the airport at 9pm into the deep Kenyan night, so much blacker this near the equator. The driver did 5-20mph because anything more would have broken the suspension on the Land Rover. To the left of the airport entrance bonfires blazed 50 feet into air as tires were burned away for the metal chords in them. It was my first encounter of the close kind with the Cycle of Poverty.

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I had a shower yesterday… #Kenya


Finding time to blog has been difficult, but these tweets tell it all. I’ll share more tomorrow.

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Buy my book for a small business owner in Kenya. I’ll take it to them.


February 7-20 I will accompany The 1010 Project to Kenya to explore ways to break the cycle of poverty by developing sustainable business models. Brian Rants, the Director of The 1010 Project asked me to work with them to think big and go beyond the typical craft-making and handwork solutions. We’ll be looking for ways to fund real businesses that work for the local economy – it’s an exciting and daunting opportunity.



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