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Friday, 23 September 2022 06:04

The 3 people you need in the room for a successful brainstorming session

When it comes to brainstorming, there are several personality types that I've found to all but guarantee a productive, successful and often enjoyable process and outcome. In my experience, people who embody the following designations tend to contribute greatly to group brainstorms in the form of stimulating creativity, provoking thought and keeping momentum going. The Devil's Advocate You know that person who's always challenging the status quo, voicing doubts, looking for the cracks and generally taking a contrarian stance on every proposed idea or conclusion? That would be your textbook devil's advocate. As soon as one person contributes a thought,…

Thursday, 22 September 2022 06:15

Mark Cuban says the worst career advice is 'Follow your passion.' What should you do instead?

Turns out it's something you already do. You just need to turn it up a notch. Ask just about any motivational speaker or career expert. Or ask Steve Jobs: As the Apple co-founder once said, "You've got to find what you love. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking." Most people believe passion comes first. But not Mark Cuban. When Adam Grant asked him if there was a "worst piece of career advice you've gotten," Cuban said: 'Follow your passion?' No. Follow your effort. No one…

Wednesday, 21 September 2022 06:28

Corporate loyalty looked like this when it was a real thing

In 1911, George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, instituted the Kodak Welfare Fund. The Fund assisted employees who were no longer able to work because of accident, illness or retirement. A year later Eastman instituted a program known as the "wage dividend", which was one of the most progressive and widespread profit-sharing programs in the history of corporate America. Seven years later, in 1919, Eastman offered employees nearly one-third of his personal stock at a price below the market rate. Eastman used the proceeds to strengthen the Welfare Fund. Eastman also implemented paid sick leave, life insurance, disability coverage, a…

Tuesday, 20 September 2022 03:58

With 2 sentences, Google CEO explains the biggest threat facing every company

Your job is to focus on doing what you do better. At the Code Conference in Beverly Hills earlier this week, Kara Swisher interviewed Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, during which she asked him about his competitors. Swisher was asking specifically about the companies that compete in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), but Pichai's answer was a brilliant lesson in how every company should think about competition. "I have always held the view that you tend to go wrong by focusing too much on competition," Pichai said. "Big companies, particularly, fail because they stumble internally." Those words may sound harsh,…

Monday, 19 September 2022 06:51

Oil prices climb on supply concerns

Oil prices climbed during early Asian trade on Monday as a weaker dollar and supply concerns ahead of the European Union embargo on Russian oil in December offset fears of a global recession that could dampen fuel demand. Brent crude futures rose $1.15, or 1.3%, to $92.50 a barrel by 0049 GMT after settling up 0.5% on Friday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $86.16 a barrel, up $1.05, or 1.2%. The front-month contract expires on Tuesday. Both contracts, which slid more than 1% last week on concerns that another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserves could slow…

Monday, 19 September 2022 06:44

Why keeping secrets is hurting your business potential

I was recently speaking with a new business coaching client who was struggling with time management. She was consistently working 70-80 hour weeks and she hasn't had a vacation in years. And when I pushed her for more information, she reluctantly began to tell a tale of her own controlling behaviors. She really struggled with delegating tasks to her team and had a past history of delegating tasks that ultimately turned out to be failures. When we pushed a little more, we realized that one of the reasons that all of her past delegations failed was because she was keeping…

Thursday, 15 September 2022 06:42

Flutterwave adds eNaira as payment option for merchants

Africa-focused fintech firm Flutterwave said on Wednesday it has added Nigeria's eNaira as a payment option for merchants, a move that could help boost adoption of the digital currency. Nigeria, the first African nation to launch a digital currency, is targeting 8 million users for the app launched in October. But adoption has been slow as lenders worry the app would compete with their online platforms and reduce fee revenue. Flutterwave said that over 1 million merchants now accept eNaira payments from their customers. "We... are confident that this number will grow further as we continue to innovate and expand,"…

Thursday, 15 September 2022 06:36

Confessions of a micromanager: You need to get delegation right

We all know that deep down micromanaging is bad for our businesses, yet many, like myself, still struggle with the very real urge to take control and handle things ourselves. So we have to ask ourselves, what drives this behavior? Why do rational people choose to micromanage even when faced with the inevitable truth of the harm that it does on a daily basis to their team and their businesses? Past Events Almost every manager can tell a story of a delegation gone horribly wrong. We gave a task to a team member and they dropped the ball. And the…

Wednesday, 14 September 2022 06:07

Ray Dalio built the world’s largest Hedge Fund. He swears by these 5 meeting rules

Tried-and-true principles, updated with modern tech for the post-pandemic world. In Ray Dalio's book, Principles: Life and Work, the billionaire investor and founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, breaks down nearly everything he's learned over the course of his career into a set of principles. Among these principles are a set of meeting rules that contain some tried-and-true methods for improving meetings in the workplace. The only problem is the book was released in 2018, and a lot has changed in the past four years. That's why I've decided to revisit some of Dalio's meeting…

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:03

FG has granted cashew processors 100% capital allowances. This is what that means

Federal government says companies involved in cashew production and processing will enjoy 100 percent capital allowances. Capital allowance is an amount of money spent on business assets that can be subtracted from what a business owes in tax. Adebayo Adeniyi, minister of industry, trade and investment disclosed this at the 16th edition of the annual conference of the African cashew alliance in Abuja on Monday. The minister said the conference was held in Nigeria for the first time since it began in 2006, adding that the event which is held annually amongst cashew-producing countries, was an opportunity to share experiences…

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Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:54

How to use design principles to streamline your business

Have you ever had the experience where somebody forwards you an email thread and you have to read through fourteen different conversations to find the action items? You basically have to become an investigative journalist trying to piece together who said what, who was this again...and by the end of the email you find yourself frustrated with the entire experience. That's an example of bad design. And as a business owner, there are lots of things in your day to day that likely suffer from similar design flaws. So today, I want to share some examples of how you can…

Monday, 12 September 2022 06:18

6 ways to develop sharp business judgment

The best kinds of organizations to be a part of are winning organizations, ones that consistently meet or exceed lofty goals and have a confidence about them driven by everyone feeling they're working on a team of champions. The leader, of course, is the heartbeat of such an organization and within that, it's that leader's ability to consistently make good decisions that makes that heart beat. Nothing leads more directly to better results than better decisions and nothing aids better decisions better than good judgment. That's why Harvard Business Review's January-February 2020 issue caught my eye, because in it, London…

Sunday, 11 September 2022 06:42

Science shows many high achievers had troubled childhoods. Elon Musk's sister just explained why he's the perfect example

Look into the childhoods of many super high achievers, from Howard Schultz to Madonna to Eleanor Roosevelt, and you'll notice a common theme: They weren't very happy. In fact, a great many are downright tragic. Madonna lost her mother to cancer at age five. Schultz grew up in a tough housing project. Roosevelt's dad drank himself to death. At first this might look like just random anecdotes, but science suggests there is something more to this observation. One classic study of 400 high achievers who had at least two biographies written about them (for positive reasons) found that an incredible…

Friday, 09 September 2022 06:48

Nigeria recorded N3.2 trillion trade surplus in 6 months - NBS

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria recorded a N3.2 trillion trade surplus between January and June of 2022. The bureau stated this in its recent report titled: ‘Foreign trade in goods statistics (Q2 2022)’. In the first half of the year, Nigeria’s total exports was N14.5 trillion and total imports was N11.3 trillion, which gives a trade surplus of N3.2 trillion. A trade surplus is an economic indicator of a positive trade balance in which the exports of a nation outweigh its imports. In Q1 2022, Nigeria’s total trade was N13 trillion. This was higher than the value recorded…

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