The Blue Bakery By Jacqueline Novogratz: Chapter Analysis

In life, success does not come on a silver platter. People like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump suffered to get to where they are. Perseverance and determination are the key to success. In order to achieve one’s goal in life, one must work hard before becoming successful. Jacqueline Novogratz, the author of The Blue Sweater, in chapter 5 mentions a lot of processes that lead to the Blue Bakery’s in Rwanda flourishing. In chapter 5, good management and hard work were factors that lead to the Blue Bakery’s success.

The Blue Bakery’s accomplishment was due to good management. The two things can be said under good managements were survey the place and control the affairs of any business. For example, Novogratz and her team went to the poorest places in Rwanda and saw that 90 percent of the women were not working. Novogratz knew that by organizing the blue bakery project, it would improve the lives of the women of Rwanda. Thus, Novogratz and her managerial team made sure of the things that were going on in and around the Blue Bakery.

They made the women to feel comfortable and not under any kind of stress. They gave the women lessons on how to introduce their product to any consumer. “We returned to our class on customer relations and building a market where everyone knew our goods and wanted to buy from us.” (81-82) Good management was the responsible for the Blue Bakery’s flourishing.
Second, hard work played a role in the Blue Bakery’s achievement.

Hard work is always the baseline of great fulfillments. The women of Rwanda were really into the business because they knew that was the only way could provide food for their families and get income from it. For instance, the women was there at dawn came to work and began frying the beignets, batonnets, samosas, tiny wattles and prepared hot tea with milk, and sugar. They begin to start to place it into their head pans and basket and to send it to other businesses, government institutions and sell it for 10 francs each (75). The women were aware that the people who worked for the government and other institutions sometimes forgot to take in their breakfast, so this was the only way they can generate income from selling the product to them. Through hard work and perseverance were the main reasons for the Blue Bakery’s

success.
The Blue Bakery’s success was due to two main reasons. It was obvious that Novogratz and her team created this business to make the women to be self-reliant because they were solely depending on foreign aids for support. People of higher status should invest and create businesses in poorer countries which the people can benefit. That will help poorer countries