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Poor funding, cultism, bane of education in Nigeria – Don J
Prof Vongai Nyawo from Zimbabwe, has identified students involvement in cult activities and poor funding in tertiary institutions by the government as major threats in Nigeria’s institutions and other African countries Nyawo dropped the hint...
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Tweeting ‘general’: Miguna’s two years of activism
For two years since he was deported from Kenya, firebrand lawyer and politician Miguna Miguna has become a fierce online activist, capitalising on his 1.1 million followers on Facebook and Twitter, his favourite battlegrounds. Before his...
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6 Benefits Of Drinking Hot Water
Recent research revealed that drinking hot water on an empty stomach provides numerous health benefits. Lemon-infused water, for example, reduces free radicals and helps different organs function properly. As per Health Line, you should drink at...
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Here’s Why Your Child Should Practice Meditation
A news report revealed how after adopting 15 minutes of meditation as a form of discipline, Robert W. Coleman Elementary school – that contains over 300 students- experienced a school year free of suspensions. Instead of being sent to the...
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Want to Better Remember What You Learn? Recent Research Says Try 10 Minutes of Mindfulness Beforehand
A 10-minute (or less) mindfulness exercise may leave you feeling refreshed and help you remember more. We've all been there. At a training, I mean, and a good one. When it comes time later on to remember what you learned though, good luck. To...
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40 Foods Nutritionists Eat Every Day
Making a trip to the grocery store can feel overwhelming: What foods should I stock up on? How many fruits and veggies should I stock up on? What about protein and snacks? Although you may generally know what foods are healthy, it’s hard to...
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30 things to watch for in the first 100 days of a relationship
30 things to watch for in the first 100 days of a relationship Usually, in the first 100 days of a relationship, you can figure out if you’re with the right person. There are many early warning signs you can pick up on. Some signs are...
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10 Luxurious Apartments Owned By The World’s Richest People
If you are one of the richest people in the Wold, for sure you own a breathtaking luxurious apartment. Here is a list of the top ten world’s richest home. They are very amazing furnished with all kind of facilities, such as swimming pool or in...
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7 Symptoms of Prediabetes You Shouldn’t Ignore
Prediabetes is a condition in which a person’s blood sugar is chronically elevated, though not so high as to indicate full-blown diabetes. It means that a combination of risk factors is leading you down the path toward type 2...
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Top 10 Most Expensive Cars Available in the World
The flamboyance and swagger that enriches these luxury cars are something to behold. You don’t expect these to be around every corner. They are worth dime a dozen and limited to only a few affordable clients. Nevertheless, we’re allowed to...
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Five Herbs to Block Joint Pain
Joint pain can be caused by many different things, from arthritis to bursitis to injury. Even certain diseases like mumps, hepatitis, and the flu can cause troubling joint pain. And with six different types of moveable...
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14 most expensive items in the world, some of them are very unbelievable
14 most expensive items in the world, some of them are very unbelievable On some occasions, luxury can even get crazy. This list shows 14 of the most expensive items of common use in the world: among others, the 90,000 dollars toothpaste and...
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10 Signs It’s Time To Move To A New Country
The biggest prizes come to those that dare. Starting your life all over again in a completely new setup can be quite a challenge. While some look forward to it with anticipation others baulk at the task ahead. With so many difficult...
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10 Dangers Of Relocating To Another Country
We love travelling. In fact, we encourage all our friends and family to do it. While going on a holiday is exciting and fun, immigrating is a whole other story. There are dangers to relocating that people don’t even consider when they’re...
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Learn how these five market segmentation trends will help your business compete in 2020.
Segmentation has been around since the early days of marketing. "One size doesn't fit all" has become the mantra of brand communication. Marketers have been racking their brains to identify the best way to categorize their audiences – and while...
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To Be a Great Leader, Be a Great Talent Manager
Years ago, when I was a vice president in corporate America, I was meeting with one of my direct reports and wanted to discuss her career goals. She seemed very shy and hesitant at the beginning of our conversation. I asked her about her reluctance....
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Becoming a Great Leader Takes the Same Effort As Building a Great Business
As a chief people officer, I’ve coached leaders for many years, and I always ask, “Do you want to be a great leader…or do you want your team to be led by a great leader?” Granted, they sound very similar, but the slight difference leads to...
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How the Founders of Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade Started Their Companies on the Path to Massive Growth and a $26 Billion Acquisition Deal
On the surface Charles Schwab and Joe Ricketts were very different, but they built their giant brokerages by employing similar visions and business moves Charles Schwab announced Monday that it is purchasing fellow stock brokerage TD...
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5 Free Ways to Invest in Your Startup's Culture
Employee engagement has been reported to be the number-two priority for CEOs, which makes sense. When corporate leaders prioritize talent, that talent is driven to produce a higher quality of work. But what if you’re the CEO of an early stage...
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Why We Should Embrace the Evolution of Communication
Recently, I received an email from a student with nothing more than a thumbs-up emoji. Upon receipt, it seemed terribly inappropriate, especially given that in my business classes, I underscore the importance of properly...
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How to Have 20/20 Vision in 2020
How to Have 20/20 Vision in 2020 "Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it's difficult to score."--Paul Arden 20/20 vision is a term for visual acuity in which the...
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Learn to Focus on the Good in Your Day
Let’s put it out there: you’re going to face things you don’t like today. Maybe it’s rush hour traffic on your way to work, being paired up with your least favorite coworker for a project, or something worse like a new...
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Hold Yourself Accountable: Why It Matters & How to Do It
Have you ever made a list of goals and thought to yourself, “Tomorrow morning, I’m going to wake up and get started!” But tomorrow morning comes, and you think, “I’m going to sleep a bit longer, after all rest is important,...
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How to Define, Establish, and Enjoy Balance in Your Life
Since the birth of my first son nearly fourteen years ago, I’ve been determined to concurrently excel in work, parenting, partnering, hobbies, and passion projects. And it took me nearly fourteen years to realize my desire to “have it all”...
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Why Your Employees Want You to Delegate
The early days of entrepreneurship are both heady and exhausting: late nights, rising before the birds, fueling your body with too much caffeine. Once your business is running and you’ve hired even a small team, it’s time to step into the next...
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The Unstoppable Power of Your Small Daily Choices
Recently, I was traveling for a seminar and struck up conversation with a cool dude on the plane. While we were sharing our goals and aspirations, he generously gave me the book he was reading, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. The book was all...
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New Year's Resolutions: Financial Goals
BY MIRIAM CALDWELL When you want to change your financial picture, you need to start by setting financial goals. And what better time than the New Year to start making changes in your life and creating new financial...
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How to Turn Your Finances Around
BY MIRIAM CALDWELL If you find yourself in a lot of debt or you feel like you are barely making ends meet, you may be ready to turn your finances around. Depending on the seriousness of your situation, it may take some time to...
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Operation You: Taking Personal Responsibility
There’s just no easy way to say this: your biggest problem is you. It’s not the weather, or the economy, or the government, or the alignment of the stars. It’s you. Phew! I’m glad we’ve sorted that out. Now, we can start getting you...
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5 Aspects of Personal Development
Firstly, if you are looking into personal development, personality type, or psychological state management, you need to take a look at our free MP3 designed to 'tune' your brainwaves. To get it, click here. That being said . . . When...
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How to develop emotionally intelligent leaders
Research shows that emotional intelligence links strongly to agile leadership. Join PSI and Statpro for their webinar to find out how emotionally intelligent leadership can support more agile ways of working As...
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How to recognise and turn around a dysfunctional team
Staff need to feel secure from threats within their team to be able to deal with external challenges, says Sylvia Sage Effective teamwork is the cornerstone of almost any successful business. No large companies...
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How to Build an Inclusive Culture: 5 Phrases to Avoid
The movie The Big Short is the perfect (true) parable of why inclusive cultures are so important. For those who haven’t seen it, its premise is this: leading up to the 2008 financial collapse, the vast majority of people in finance...
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10 Things to Do When Speaking to Have "Presence"
What does it mean to have “presence”? It starts with having a clear purpose, John Ullmen said in his LinkedIn Learning course, Developing Executive Presence. And you can't fake that – either you are committed to something or you...
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6 Remedies To Get Rid Of Neck Pain
Everyday life isn’t kind to the neck. Many of us have experienced neck pain for one reason or the other. It could be from prolonged staring into computers or staring down at our smartphones most of the day. The human head which weighs about ten...
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4 Benefits Of Eating Pecan Nuts
Considered to be one of the healthiest snacks you can have, nuts have many benefits to the body. In this article, we are focusing on pean nuts even though the pecan isn’t technically classified as a nut but a drupe, which is a fruit with a...
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4 Tips for Setting Powerful Goals
Goal setting is a fantastic skill to develop, and how you design your own future. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. If you can start...
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3 Keys to Future-Proofing Your Business
If you asked 10 different people for their definition of innovation, you would receive 10 different answers. Even the big consultancies can’t agree. Doblin (Deloitte) touts “Ten Types of Innovation,” McKinsey offers “Eight Essentials of...
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Everyone Is Talking About the Future of Work. Here Are 4 Ways to Take Your Company Into the Future Now.
Forty-seven percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being automated within the next 20 years, according to researchers at Oxford University. Their studies suggest that the most valuable employees in the future will not be the ones with years of...
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5 Ways to Prepare Your Business for the Future of Work
The workplace of the 20th century is no more. In my view, its remnants of menial labor and tasks completed by hand are soon to simply a vestigial tail of a bygone era. The future of work lies in the digital world. One major indicator: Amazon...
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Here's How to Find Your Work Wife
When I found out I was going to get to be the anchor of an investigative series at my first broadcast job, I immediately ran to tell my bestie at work. She was thrilled for me and took me out for drinks that night to celebrate. Now, decades later,...
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Getting Over Your Fear of Talking About Diversity
While 27 percent of chief diversity officers find themselves still having to make the case for diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace, the good news is that the majority of top leaders already understand how critical these...
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What Meditation Can Do for Your Leadership
One of the things that stands in the way of many leaders’ success — and therefore the success of their companies — is their ego. Leadership expert Jim Collins found in his seminal study on what makes companies sustainably great that...
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4 Careers for People Who Are Easily Distracted
For all its clear advantages, one big drawback to the digital age is our exposure to ubiquitous distractions — from our endless need to check stuff on Google, to the perpetual stream of WhatsApp messages, to our impulsive additions to our...
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How to Make a New Name in an Old Industry
When you’re looking to grow your business, it’s easy to look to flashy industries. Who wouldn’t want to be the next big name in tech? What entrepreneur wouldn’t want to be remembered for a life-saving breakthrough in healthcare? But remember...
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4 Must-Know Strategies for Selling Efficiently to Distributors
So, you’ve created a great product and you’re ready to scale. Whether you’re looking to land distribution with retailers or ambassadors, there’s one common need: to make sure who you’re selling to understands the incredible business...
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4 Types of Mental ‘Noise’ You Should Ignore
To me, noise is much more than just a distraction. Noise (false or misleading information) is something that can block out the signals (truly important things) you need in order to move toward positive growth. Noise can lead to a negative reality in...
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‘Bothsidesism’ Is Poisoning America
Zealous coverage of political point scoring doesn’t help anyone outside Washington. State Police keep a handful of Confederate protesters separated from counterdemonstrators in front of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on...
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