Enough of the Analysis, Try Common Sense

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I’M sure you know some people who are bugged down by all manner of explanations, analysis, theories, postulations, plans and counter plans.  Maybe you are also struggling with this. Is anything wrong with detailed analysis and plans, absolutely not, but something is inherently wrong with analysis that is not worked or executed, something that has come to be known as the ‘paralysis of analysis’. Something is wrong with over-complicating the situation. How do you get out of this or help someone get out of it? Let me share this funny but profound story. An uneducated father with his educated son went on a camping trip. They set-up their tent and fell asleep. Some hours later, the father woke up his son....

Secret to Getting Ahead - I Am Because You Are

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AN Anthropologist proposed a game to children of an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the kids that the first one to reach the fruits would win them all. When he told them to run, the children took one another’s hand and ran together, then sat together and enjoyed the fruits. When asked why they ran like that, as one could have taken all the fruits for oneself, they said…

You Are Ahead, So? Tips for Developing Patience

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‘PATIENCE is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting’ – Joyce Meyer. In a fast moving world, where friends, colleagues and loved ones compare and differentiate you from others, how do you develop patience and stick it out? How do you develop patience when time seems to be running out? Let me first share this story

Important Lessons on Excellence You Cannot Ignore

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ACCORDING to a popular saying, ‘every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence’. This is the story of Wasiu a cab driver as told by a passenger who engaged Wasiu. The passenger writes and I quote: