In the last couple of days, global media has been awash with reports of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape against women by Harvey Weinstein. Journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New...
How can you look more confident and send out the right kind of signal that would generate the right response from your audience? Harvard Business Review’s Kasia Wezowski has identified several positions which are indicators...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a presidential proclamation proscribing the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to THISDAY, this is in a move to take the heat off the army and to ensure that due...
In part 1 of this piece, I opined that there was something magical about taking an action. Was it not Albert Einstein who stated that nothing happens until something moves? It is the same...
Many years ago as a young graduate, I appeared before a panel of interviewers. I was being considered for recruitment as a management trainee. All went well – or so I thought – until...
Any human resource practitioner, especially in our part of the world, would readily tell you that his job is like a football match. You never know what the outcome would be, or where the...
The perfect way to respond to an Insult – the Steve Job model In 1997, Steve Jobs was answering developers’ questions when one audience member took a shot at him. What happens next...
A 27-year-old man graduated from University of Benin with a second-class upper degree in Economics. Five years after completing his national youth service, he is still in search of a job. He has attended...
On the appointed day I set off two hours ahead of schedule. The GMD’s office was on Marina and mine was on the mainland. With Lagos traffic, one could never be too sure. Better...
The call came in the forenoon of an otherwise ordinary Tuesday five years ago. I was engrossed in a particularly explosive mail from top Management. The mail laid out the details of an impending...
