Less Can be More in Speeches: Beware of Selfishness
by Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager Why do speakers often go over the time offered to them by their host or organizers? The simple answer is that we’re just selfish. We love to take more than we are given....
View ArticleThere will always be Garbage In
By Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager There is a popular saying that ‘garbage in, garbage out’. What this means is that if you receive poorly refined instructions, codes, methodology, you act on it as you...
View ArticleThe Ten Thousand-Hour Rule: Becoming a Champion
By Darasimi Oshodi “Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a...
View ArticleThe Demystification of Jose Mourinho
By Darasimi Oshodi “I don’t feel comfortable enough to tell you what I think about the game. We’re in trouble. It is a concern [conceding so many goals]. I don’t like it, I don’t organise my teams to...
View ArticleSuperstars and Superflaws
By Darasimi Oshodi Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius, Aaron Hernandez. Why are superstars falling from grace to grass? Pistorius’ and Hernandez’s cases are still in court so it is subjudice, using the...
View ArticleTwo Things You Can Still Do This Year, by Darasimi Oshodi
by Darasimi Oshodi Sometime ago, I took my wife to the hospital for treatment of cough and catarrh. It was our first time of visiting that hospital to see a doctor so we had to obtain a new patient’s...
View ArticleThinking begets Creativity, by Olurotimi Odejayi
Olurotimi Odejayi To be creative requires having a clear mind for thinking as well as for receiving inspiration. This however demands that you have prior skill in a particular field of endeavour and be...
View ArticleSkill Matters: Life Trading Values, By Olurotimi Odejayi
Olurotimi Odejayi The word “value” (in economics), means “a measure of the benefit that an economic actor can gain from either a good or service.” Source is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/value....
View ArticleCompeting with Artificial Intelligence
I was just reading an article about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going me to make me obsolete in a few years, which was a little disheartening. As I thought about the article, it occurred to me...
View ArticleYou’re Powerful
If they say I can’t, And I say I can, I have to choose whose word I believe, And then prove it! It’s tempting to choose what they say, because it’s easier to prove; Just do nothing The post You’re...
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