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How Journaling Can Make You a Better Entrepreneur and Leader
In 2019, I have written thousands of pages -- emails, memos, texts, articles like this one. Hundreds of thousands of words to communicate and connect. Most of them have an audience of at least one, even if it’s just a quick note to my wife. But...
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8 Diseases You Can Get From Kissing
This post is not meant to scare you or make you anxious for every time you need to kiss a loved one. Kissing is no doubt one of the loving ways to show affection but what many may not realise is that intimate kisses that involve exchanging saliva...
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Refund to bank customers stand at N76.7bn, $20.9m -CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the worth of money refund to bank customers as at Nov. 30 stood at N76.75 billion and 20.90 million dollars. Mr Kofo-Abdulsalam Alada, the Director, Consumer Protection Department (CPD) of CBN, said this at...
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Dare to Be An Original
When you dare to be an original you are in essence daring to be "yourself" and everything that encompasses who you really are. To many of us, that can be a scary and daunting proposition. And why can that be scary, you ask? It can...
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How to have your happiest retirement
How to have your happiest retirement Retirement, with all its promises of leisure and travel, might seem like a blissful idea when you’re slogging away at the career coalface. But the adjustment to freedom isn’t always smooth. While...
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7 secret habits of self-made millionaires
7 secret habits of self-made millionaires If we become what we repeatedly do, poor habits can make us poor while "rich habits" can lead to wealth. This is the premise of a new book by best-selling author Thomas Corley, who spent five...
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How to Think for Yourself
Do you think for yourself? In these times of fast media and ever-growing Internet we are under so many external influences that it can be difficult to know when we are thinking for ourselves. Unless you are a discerning, very aware person,...
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9 Simple Techniques Any Leader Can Use to Show Employees Appreciation
Here is the harsh reality: Most employees do not feel appreciated or acknowledged, as suggested in a study by Gallup. In my work as a trainer and executive coach, the lament I hear most often is from employees who don’t feel their hard work...
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17 Habits of Self-Made Millionaires Who Retired Early
It takes a lot of diligence and dedication to retire early as a self-made millionaire. Some have done it as young as 28, while others achieve financial independence in their 50s. Either way, early retirement isn't a feat everyone can...
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10 Powerful Ways to Master Self-Discipline
It may be hard to believe when you’re facing a hot-fudge sundae or the prospect of sleeping in versus hitting the gym, but studies show that people with self-discipline are happier. People with a higher degree of self-control spend less time...
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How Do You Build a Customer Base? Follow These Steps.
Q: I just launched a company, but I’m struggling to connect with my first customers. Help! -- Lisa, Oklahoma City Before I started my businesses, I was a journalist. And rule number one when writing is this: Know your audience. Many factors...
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5 Simple Rules for Strategy Execution
In survey after survey, the execution of carefully developed strategy comes in as a key problem that evades solution by executives. They acknowledge that they can’t seem to get it right. It’s one thing to design a strategy in the...
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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent
Do you get to the end of the day and feel that you’ve met your most pressing deadlines but haven’t accomplished anything that’s fundamentally important? You’re hardly alone. In a series of studies recently published in...
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How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits
Breaking habits is hard. We all know this, whether we’ve failed our latest diet (again), or felt the pull to refresh our Instagram feed instead of making progress on a work project that is past due. This is largely because we are...
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3 Unusual Ways to Find a Co-founder
In the late ’90s, Mike Serbinis (left) needed a developer to help him build cloud-storage startup DocSpace. So he placed a classified ad in the paper. “It was like: ‘Started awesome internet company! Developer wanted! Call...
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The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers
One oft-cited reason why more female executives don’t advance to top management jobs is their lack of access to informal organizational and industry networks. Some people blame unconscious bias: High-ranking men connect more easily with other men....
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Attractive People Get Unfair Advantages at Work. AI Can Help.
One reason for the widespread interest in AI is that it has the potential to reduce the degree of bias underpinning human decisions. For example, meta-analytic studies have long highlighted the pervasive nature of bias in hiring and...
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Your Employees Have All the Creativity You Need. Let Them Prove It.
If your team could get more than one hundred creative new ideas, ranging from revenue-generating market expansions to ways to improve the health of your employees and reduce insurance costs, would you ask for them? What if virtually all...
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Why Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event
In 1666, one of the most influential scientists in history was strolling through a garden when he was struck with a flash of creative brilliance that would change the world. While standing under the shade of an apple tree, Sir Isaac Newton saw an...
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5 Ways to Unlock Your Entrepreneurial Creativity
Creativity is perhaps the most important attribute for successful entrepreneurs to possess and cultivate. After all, creativity powers innovation, establishes new perspectives and solutions to old problems, and empowers business leaders to craft a...
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How to Give Creativity a Voice in the Workplace
Today’s organizations spend considerable time and energy selecting and recruiting creative talent. And rightly so. Creative employees help their organizations survive and remain relevant in an ever-changing global environment. But no matter how...
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How to Make Meetings More Meaningful
The average business’s workforce spends 15 percent of its time in meetings. This figure has increased year on year since 2008, and senior executives lose two days to meetings every week. Worst of all: Unproductive meetings cost U.S. companies an...
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4 Tips on How to Make Board Meetings Less Stressful and More Productive, From an Actual Board Member and CEO
For far too many CEOs, board meetings are a cause of stress. They send their teams in a frenzy pulling together materials, there are late-night fire drills of prep sessions, and the meetings feel like one big...
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How to Stay Relevant In an Era of Automation and AI
Recently, I attended the TechBeach conference in Hamilton, Bermuda, which showcased leading innovators and thinkers in the field of fintech and blockchain. During the conference, I was fortunate to moderate a fascinating panel of experts...
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6 Characteristics Which Make You a Rock for the People in Your Life
Think about the important relationships in your life. How do you show up for your significant other, children, friends or coworkers? What words would they use to describe you? If you want to be a rock for them, this is what should come to...
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Science Says the Most Successful Kids Have Parents Who Do These 5 Things
Your children are the people in this world who you most want to be happy, healthy and successful. And like it or not, your behavior as a parent has a lot to do with it. Here's what researchers say the parents of high-achieving kids do...
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How I Learned to Believe in My Own Voice and You Can Too
Few things can make you feel more exposed and vulnerable than standing up in front of people and singing. Here's how I managed to get past that fear. "Look over the top of my head and skewer him!" said Claude Stein. Stein teaches the...
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3 Key Signs Your Startup's Business Plan Needs to Change
Pivoting is expensive, but so is making smaller changes to your business plan to address the present-day realities of your market, your customers and your company. Revising your plan and implementing those changes can be time-consuming and...
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Perfectionism Is Increasing, and That’s Not Good News
According to the World Health Organization, a record number of young people worldwide are suffering from serious depression or anxiety disorders. In some sections of society, there is a tendency to dismiss this trend as the product of an...
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The Innovator’s DNA
How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?” These are questions that stump senior executives, who understand that the ability to innovate is the “secret sauce” of business success....
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Building a Culture That Embraces Data and AI
Many organizations aspire to have cultures that embrace data, analytics and AI, and other new technologies, but few make specific attempts to create such cultures. TD Wealth, the wealth management unit of Toronto-based TD Bank Group, is...
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3 Strategies That Will Keep Your Employees Engaged So They Don't Jump Ship
Let’s imagine that the unicorn you hired recently is delivering on his potential and leading the organization to new levels. Now the question becomes: How do you keep him from jumping ship? As a people leader, you have to know what motivates...
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4 Tips for Managing Communication Among Remote, Multilingual Teams
Remote teams aren't going anywhere. A study by IWG reveals that half of employees work from outside the office for half of the week. Also, a FlexJobs annual survey shows that workers across all generations want more flexible jobs....
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True Transparency Requires Sharing the Good and the Bad
McKinsey’s 2019 State of Fashion report identified “radical transparency” as a top trend in its industry, as consumers increasingly demand more information about supply chains. The trend is hardly limited to fashion, however. From Whole...
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4 Simple Techniques to Remember Everything You Learn
Aristotle once compared the human memory to a wax tablet that starts out hot and pliable, but cools down to something hard and difficult to impress. For a long time, this was the prevailing view of our ability to learn, i.e. when we’re young,...
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5 Travel Hacks to Boost Productivity on Every Trip
There are a multitude of reasons why you might need to travel, be it for work, relaxation or something in-between. Nowadays, so-called “bleisure” excursions are all the rage, combining the fun and excitement of a pleasureful getaway with the...
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How to Simply (and Effectively) Make Your E-Commerce Business Stand Out
For e-commerce as a whole, business is booming. According to estimates from Statista, the number of worldwide digital buyers is expected to reach 2.14 billion by 2021, with global e-commerce sales exceeding $4.5 trillion. While this paints...
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6 Areas of Law Every Business Owner Needs to Understand
If you own a business, especially a fledgeling or small business, you probably do not have a large team of attorneys on retainer to address the myriad legal issues that arise in the course of a given day, week or quarter. Nevertheless, there are...
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6 Ways To Handle A Child With Bad Behaviour
Many if not all aspire to be parents someday but being a parent is one thing, being able to raise your child right is another. The job of raising a child is a delicate yet very important one because if you don’t get it right, you end up raising a...
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3 Ways To Get The Man You Fancy Notice You
There are times you like a guy and you have no idea how to get him to notice, especially that official or busy guy. Find below ways to make that man you fancy notice you. Make Eye Contacts When you catch the eye of that guy you are crushing...
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How To Thrive In A Long Distance Relationship
Many people see long distance relationship as a no go area, as if it were a curse. But, in all fairness, it is not such a bad thing to experience. Unless you both are entirely stationed at home (which is highly unlikely), then there will be times...
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Labour set for minimum wage battle with state govts
LABOUR is set for showdown with state governments that may not be ready for immediate implementation of the new minimum wage. Officials said on Tuesday that after securing an agreement with the Federal Government, it is now time to get...
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Railway director beats up doctor during brawl
A Principal Medical Officer at the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta, Lagos State, Dr Chukwuweike Ojeah, has been hospitalised after he was allegedly attacked by the Director of Operations, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr Niyi Alli. Our...
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3 Important Benefits Of Adding White Beans To Your Diet
White beans, also known as white navy beans, offer extraordinary health benefits. They are loaded with antioxidants and provide a good supply of detoxifying molybdenum. They are also a good source of fiber and protein and produce alpha-amylase...
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6 Reasons You Need To Stop Eating Restaurant Food
Many of us live a fast-paced and busy life that we barely have the time for other things outside of our work schedule. We are so busy that we are either too tired to cook at home or have no interest whatsoever so we rely on ordering out or stopping...
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Excessive Sleeping: Symptoms, Social Impact, Medication
More often than not, we hear people around us complain about their inability to sleep (insomnia) but what we do not often get to hear about is those who sleep too much. Known as hypersomnolence or hypersomnia, it is a condition that leads to...
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4 Health Benefits Of Male Circumcision
The case of male circumcision has generated lots of arguments in the past. Circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin, it is an important cultural and religious practice for many people around the world. While some see it as...
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4 Lifestyle Changes That Could Boost Your Mental Health
Having a good mental health is very important and this can only be achieved if and when you pay close attention to the “little things” that may affect your health. In order to assist with that, we have rounded up four lifestyle changes that...
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