The Role Of Success In Jacqueline Novogratz's The Blue Bakery

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 led to the Blue Bakery’s in Rwanda flourishing. Good management and hard work were the factors that led to the Blue Bakery’s success.

The Blue Bakery’s accomplishment was due to good management. Two things that can be said to be part of good management are surveying the place and training the employees of a business. When one

wants to start to have a good business, one must know the type of business he or she creating in order to have good result. For example, Jacqueline and her team surveyed the place in Kigali, Rwanda. Novogratz and her team went to the poorest places in Rwanda and saw that 90 percent of the women were not working. The blue bakery became successful because they knew that by organizing the business at the poorest place in Rwanda, and this made them generate more income and more ventures from the business.Novogratz and her management team made sure of the things that were going on in and around the Blue Bakery. In addition, the equipment which was used by the women was inspected and made sure it was kept in good shape .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) Thus, good management was the responsible for the Blue Bakery’s flourishing.
The Second factor which led Blue Bakery’s achievement was hard work. 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. Novogratz knew that by organizing the Blue Bakery project, it would improve the lives of the women of Rwanda. The women were there at dawn came to work and began frying the beignets, batonnets, samosas, tiny waffles and prepared hot tea with milk, and sugar. The women began carrying it into their head pans and basket and to sending it to other businesses, government institutions and sell it (75). The women were aware that the people who worked for the government and other institutions sometimes forgot to take on their breakfast, so this was the way the women of Rwanda can generate income from selling the product to them. Therefore, the Blue Bakery’s victory was as a result of hard work.
The Blue Bakery’s success was due to two main reasons. 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. If the African government would use their resources well, and create meaningful businesses for its people to work in them, there were would be no more poverty to deal with.