It was Lucious Lyon of ‘Empire’ movie who painted a vivid picture of the ‘Gatekeeper’. With a gun pointed at him by a fellow black man whom he betrayed years earlier, he told the story of how he had to pacify one ‘white’ ‘Gatekeeper’ after another, by betraying his black brothers, just to achieve success
My response would be, “When it is time, you would know”. I would use the start of my entrepreneurial journey as a reference. I never knew the depth of the entrepreneurial yearning I had until very recently when I came across a Facebook post I did in April 2014 – the year I took that
When I talk about ‘the Equalizer’, I do not mean the 2014 American vigilante action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua, featuring Denzel Washington as the hero of the movie. Neither am I talking about the movie’s sequel in 2018. The movie may project a somewhat related plot to my post of today though, as it presents a story of a
I am not going to talk about anything else today apart from the gruesome reality in which I have now found myself, by offering our crowdfunding platform – www.fundanenterprise.org to support persons distressed by the Covid-19 challenges. On 1 April 2020, our Foundation created this support page – https://fundanenterprise.org/covid-19-support-page/. We asked persons who are financially distressed as a
According to the findings in neuroscience, decision making is not based on logic, facts and figures but on emotions. Some years back, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio studied people with damage in the part of the brain where emotions are generated, he found that they seemed normal, except that they were not able to feel emotions. He
I have tried to stay calm in the midst of every event that had unfolded in the past weeks, beginning from the Abule Ado explosion that happened so close to where I live with my family, to the Coronavirus spread, to the lock down of churches, the panic buying, the shutting down of schools and
I am generation equality: realizing women’s rights – This was the theme of the International Women’s Day (IWD), 8 March 2020. What are these rights? The United Nations women explain, “The emerging global consensus is that despite some progress, real change has been agonizingly slow for the majority of women and girls in the world.
If you think I write well, late Dr. Ife Ogbonna (AKA Ala Bingo) of the University of Nigeria Secondary School Enugu, Nigeria, was responsible for it. He passed two weekends ago in Enugu. He and our English literature teacher made the English Language and creative writing feel like the highest art to learn. They were
I read through the story of the creation of the world today again. I needed to be sure at which stage God created the woman. It was after creating everything and putting the man in charge of all. God then looked around and saw that man needed a helper, so He made the woman from
There are certain nomenclatures that are common in the consulting work environment. Expressions like ‘yo-yo’, ‘obote’, ‘PURE’, ‘greenhorn’ ‘lacks presence’ and the likes. They all describe how ‘management’ perceive certain employees. Many organizations appraise employees based on set ‘targets’ or sales levels or certain key performance indices associated with the particular role of the employee,