How To Hire or Acquire the Best Hands For Your Young Startup Business
Hiring your first staff as a young entrepreneur and business owner is crucial to determining how far you go with growing your company. You have certain challenges as a young business ...
Servant-Leadership in an Age of Globalisation
“President”, “chairperson”, “master”, “manager”, these are some of the words used to describe leaders, people who provide guidance, direction to others within the context ...
Change Management and Training in the Ever-changing Corporate World
How right was Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who said that “Nothing endures but change.” His words, often mistranslated as ‘change is the only constant’ but essentially ...
Great Solutions for Big Problems…IT Managed Services May Be Visible and Tangible
IT Managed Services are considered intangible and invisible; however they can be turned into a profitable tangible solution in a world where the technological infrastructure plays a ...
5 Tips on How Best to Motivate Your Employees
Managing and allocating physical, non-human resources compared to human resources is a more straight forward process. Your people are a huge determinant of how far your organisation ...
Tips to Develop Leadership Qualities as a Beginner in Business
Even if leadership qualities do not come naturally to you, you can work towards honing your skills to be able to lead your team well for achieving success in the goals you set for yourself ...
How to Help Improve Your Employees’ Work/Life Balance
A recent article published by hrmagazine.co.uk stated that 1 in 5 employers consider work/life balance to be the top health issue – above mental health which was at around 19%. The ...
WIMBIZ Back Okonjo Iweala for World Bank Presidency
Influential Nigerian women group, Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ) has expressed support for the candidature of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the presidency of the World Bank.
Chairperson, ...
Thomas Edison and the Lessons of Smart Delegation in Business
Thomas Edison was one of the earliest businessmen to introduce the concept of mass production to churn out his invented tools faster and in more quantity.
He is often labelled a prolific ...
Employee Motivation Strategies: 6 Ways to Keep Your Workers Happy Without Money
In many quarters it is believed that the best way to keep your staff and employees motivated and happy is to pay them more money. To some extent this may be true. Still there is an ...
5 Top Negotiation Tactics To Make You Win Every Time
I first got my lesson on business negotiation several years ago when as a bleary eyed 19 year old writer I was faced with negotiating with an experienced, cunning small publisher who ...
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: As World’s Most Admired CEO Goes Home
Steve Jobs, co-founder and chief architect of Apple-Inc‘s massive success in the personal computer and digital tools industry, died Wednesday aged 56.
Jobs died 42 days after ...
Nigeria @ 51: Celebrating Independence Anniversary Amidst Bombing Threats
As Nigeria marks its 51st Independence anniversary from Britain it faces its greatest threats to nationhood so far. A Muslim sect known in the country as Boko Haram has for the past ...
The Search for Superior Knowledge
Everyman and woman really wants to be recognised and reverred in anything they do. Whoever tells you otherwise isn’t just being honest with himself.
The best way to rise quickly ...
Why you must Fail to Succeed
The title of this post may sound weird to you, but in the real sense its actually a fact that you must experience failure before you can succeed in anything you do. Infact, successful ...
Leadership Skills: Inborn or Learned?
The debate has always gone on about whether people are born with leadership skills or acquire them in the course of life.
We like to take a more accommodating view of the subject matter.
When ...
Business Leadership Series: How To Develop the Ability to Think On Your Feet
As an entrepreneur taking quick business decisions with insufficient facts doesn’t come easy. Yet you will encounter such situations in the course of doing business when such decisions ...
How to Get What You Want by Applying the Carnegie Lessons
Several years ago while still new in college I read Dale Carnegie’s timeless work ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ but didn’t realize the importance of the lessons ...
Thoughts on Staff Motivation: Keeping Your People Happy
These are little thoughts and insights on managing your staff and employees. The topic of motivation is thankfully a flexible one and so can be approached from various points of view.
On ...
3 Keys To Smart Buying
Profits are made in business when you buy and not when you sell. With this very important fact in mind it then behoves any sensible businessmen and entrepreneur to come up with cost ...
