Mummy, "I want to be a Wizkid"

I was in a Keke NAPEP on my way back from my classes on Telecoms and networking last Saturday, when I got into a thrilling conversation with a 4-year old boy who spoke like he was 7.

We talked about a man sitting to my right whom he hit in the face by accident, debating whether or not he should say “sorry”. We discussed cartoons—he liked Power Rangers which was my best cartoon after Bugs Bunny and Spiderman. We talked about his 2-year old brother that had the annoying habit

Is Democracy Actually A Good Thing?

I was reading the book Boomerang by Michael Lewis where he talks about the crazy financial decisions that were made in countries like Iceland, Greece and Ireland, when I read this quote and thought I should share it:

Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality and anarchy as progress.

- Isocrates (436-338 BC)

Kind of true....right?

How I fell in love with Unilever

She speaks with a loud voice. She’s smart. She’s hardworking. She treats her subordinates with respect. She loves her family. She is Tolulope Agiri. She is the HR Director for Unilever Nigeria. She made 26 June, 2013 one of the best days of June for me.

Sometime ago at our weekly Community Development program at the NYSC secretariat in Lagos, we were called together and informed that Unilever was organising a “Tea Party”, and youth corps members were invited. A number of us wrote our names down, not knowing what it was all about. It was worth it.

The Tea Party began as an interview, the interviewee was Tolulope. Tolulope talked from her heart. She told us about some of her experiences in leadership. I’ll tell you one that struck me.

She told us she used to be “quite autocratic” in the way she dealt with her team, and she was comfortable with it up till a certain point. She had left Nigeria and gone to work in South Africa,

6 Facts: My Lame Attempt at Humour

1. There are more sane people on facebook than on twitter
2. There are more brutally blunt beings on twitter than on facebook
3. Most hyper active twitter users hate facebook
4. Most hyper active facebook users don't understand twitter
5. Many people don't realise it, but Google Plus is better than facebook or twitter
6. The five facts above are totally useless

Nigeria 0 - 3 Spain: My Thoughts

Nigeria 0 - 3 Spain

We lost.

But not entirely.

This competition has shown us which pockets in our team have holes.

1. Attitude: We have that. The boys have spirit and will to struggle. 7.5/10

2. Team Spirit: We have

Getting People to Work with You

I learnt this from Malcolm Gladwell's book,Outliers.

An important skill essential for success is this ability to "draw people into your goal". It is so fundamental to success that its almost unheard of that a person succeeds without it.

How do we do this? Simple. We get

It Pays To Write Down Your Goals

I was pleasantly amazed this past week. 

I took a little time to go through my journal, and starting at the most recent entry, I saw a notes which I took down after reading a book, notes from a seminar series I attended earlier this year, a few quotes and a bunch of other stuff.

I kept flipping back until I got to my entry on 23rd December, 2012. I read through it and I smiled. You remember when Brian Tracy said – and this is from SOLID research – that the act of writing down a goal increases your chances of achieving it by a whopping 1000%? It’s pure truth.

I read my income goal for the first half of the year 2013. I found that at present I had already exceeded that goal