{"id":20020,"date":"2016-03-03T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T09:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=20020"},"modified":"2016-03-03T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T09:13:59","slug":"new-inspirational-book-on-success-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/03\/03\/new-inspirational-book-on-success-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"New inspirational book on success, achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new locally authored book is on the market to inspire budding entrepreneurs and leaders on the dynamics of achievement and success.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Malawi\u2019s own fast-growing inspiration speaker and writer, Daniel Dunga, the book titled: \u201cGrit \u2013 Your Master Key to Achieving Your Life Goals\u201d, makes a compelling case that with courage and determination, anyone can become \u201cmore and bigger\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can all unleash our fullest potential through grit. Achievement of greatness is not an exclusive reserve of some or a certain class of people. It is for all to attain,\u201d writes Dunga in the postscript of the book.<\/p>\n<p>The foreword has been written by renowned local entrepreneur Thomson Mpinganjira and Dunga said the main shareholder in what would become Malawi\u2019s third largest bank was chosen for the preface because \u201che has the grit \u2013 the art of sheer persistence and perseverance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the foreword, Mpinganjira recommends the book, saying it captures well the secret key to success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAchievement of greatness requires persistence, perseverance and a dogged determination. It requires Grit,\u201d writes Mpinganjira.<\/p>\n<p>A chartered accountant by training, Dunga currently chairs the Competitions and Fair Trading Commission (CFTC) and works as general manager for Continental Asset Management Limited.<\/p>\n<p>He previously worked at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM), then known as Society of Accountants in Malawi (Socam) where he become CEO at the age of 28.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he was a fellow of the Mandela-Washington Fellowship under the Young African Leaders Initiative of the United States of America and met President Barack Obama who launched the initiative in the same year to help in grooming future Africa leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn July 28, 2014, I shook hands with President Obama in Washington DC. He may not remember this, but I do vividly. It was a never to be forgotten moment that reshaped and refocused my life,\u201d writes Dunga in the introduction of the book<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new locally authored book is on the market to inspire budding entrepreneurs and leaders on the dynamics of achievement and success. Written by Malawi\u2019s own fast-growing inspiration speaker and writer, Daniel Dunga, the book titled: \u201cGrit \u2013 Your Master Key to Achieving Your Life Goals\u201d, makes a compelling case that with courage and determination, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20026,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions\/20026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}