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:  

Secrets To Being Focused For Greater Productivity

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LISTENING to Bishop TD Jakes talk about focus and intentionality highlights the point that many people and businesses struggle for one major reason; they strive to be all things to all men rather than being something to some men, in other words, they lack focus. 

How To Control Your World and Enhance Your Productivity

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I’VE always known that strange and many times sad news sell. I was taught in media school that it is normal for a dog to bite a man, but news for a man to bite a dog. That’s an aberration. Have you wondered why majority of the news stories that trend are stories of war, gloom, loss and depression; in short they are noise that disrupt your normal life flow?

Humanity in Business Series: Be A Mentor

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IN a recent survey, many people said that one of the topmost items on their personal agenda is to make their lives count for a purpose bigger than them. This is indeed noble and commendable. It’s likely also that you share the same sentiment. We most are agreed that life must not end with us, that life, no matter how beautifully lived or wealth acquired, is not an end in itself. Indeed, we agree that life is more than food and clothing, even when we lack these basic human needs.

Humanity in Business Series: Celebrate Your Mentor

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DEPENDING on the part of the world you are in, yesterday was Mother’s Day. This day afforded the opportunity to celebrate the carrier of destinies, builder of the future, mind ‘crafter’, guide of the path, call her whatever you like; Mama, Mum, Mma, Mummy, Ma, Nne, Iya, whatever, it means and sounds sweet. God bless mothers and mothers to be. To those whose mothers are alive, hope you took out time to celebrate them. To others, like me, whose mothers have passed, take heart. I know the feeling. I miss my mother so much its indescribable. God bless her memory as she rests in peace.

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Humanity in Business Series: Tomorrow Has Come

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ON this post, I begin what I have termed ‘Humanity in Business Series’ to remind us that having said and done all, life offers more than what many pursue. On the 18^th of September, 2014, my very first broadcast of The Next Level with Chukwuemeka, I shared a thought inspired by my friend Victor Nwokocha. It is the true story of Ifeanyi, Victor and myself.

There Is A Miracle In Your Work

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THERE is a much celebrated story in Nigeria and beyond, and rightly too, of Olajumoke Orisaguna, the former bread hawker turned super star. Is it not interesting to note that, ‘There is a Miracle in Your Work’? Why are many people blind to this fact?

It might seem strange to explain how an ‘ordinary oni buredi (meaning bread seller) walking the streets of Lagos becomes oni goldi (meaning wealthy individual)’ and a global icon all within about one week? There must be a miracle somewhere.