Ola Barnabas

"Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless" in the words of Dan Pena. By the way, Dan Pena is someone i'll ask you to listen to regularly. Can you for a moment, as you plan towards the new year, take a brief look again at the outgoing year, at the mountains that stood in your face, the challenges you couldn't surmount that made life a little less interesting for you? Could you have taken little steps inspite of them? Could you have been more daring in the face of those challenges? Could you possibly have pretended that they did not exist and moved a little forward by taking little steps? There are no easy ways to make hard decisions. You cannot drive forward with your brakes on; you must be ready to go through life and break through it like you really want to test yourself. The challenges hope you don't move, are you going to confirm their hopes? If you do not dare, you do not breakthrough. Be ready to fail; it's ok to fail! If there's anythin

Do you run a restaurant, bakery or any related venture? You need to run that venture with a signature. Many local restaurateur, chef or baker want to always try out different recipe on their meals. And in cases where the owner is not the chef and he/she hires a chef, that chef comes with his/her own recipe. Wrong. Do not continue to serve different taste of the same meal to your customers every other day. Of course this can be permitted in the very early few days of your starting (it is indeed terrible enough that you do not have a planned out recipe before you commence operation), or if you are trying to change your recipe because of customers' feedback. But on the whole, you MUST have a signature recipe/meal production plan that every chef you hire must respect. Even if they are going to tinker with it, the variation should be so mild it can be ignored. Most people who have chosen your bread, cakes, and other confectionery and indeed your restaurant have done so because of

CREATING DUAL CAREER PROGRESS PATHS The most common reward method for high-performing staff in organizations include, among other things, increase in pay, and northward promotion along the managerial path. Both timeless and very prominent reward systems in most organizations - large, medium, small, government, not-for-profit, etc. Are these effective in stimulating higher performance from benefiting staff? You bet. But are they effective in transforming the staff into the exact image that the organization hoped when it rewarded them? Debatable. More monetary incentive, of course, will win any day. Everyone wants more, especially if they've worked for it. My emphasis however, is on the second reward mechanism - of promoting staff into managerial positions because they've been very productive down the ladder. To start with, not everyone will make a good manager. Some people are better, and will be better left as professionals in their fields. Managerial tasks are quite un

Almost all business persons, I can guarantee, have heard that, the only way to succeed in business is to give consumers what they want. I have often trained entrepreneurs that way too. But there is a flip side. In the course of your business practice, if you are one who pays very close attention to consumers' purchasing pattern, you will observe that many consumers don't know what they want. Indeed many consumers don't know they need somethings until they hear of it; someone recommends it; they see someone use it; etc. So, instead of looking out for what consumers want only, you can lead the market by introducing to consumers what they will want. With the right public communication and education and other relevant sales strategies, you will find yourself enjoying the benefits of novelty/pioneering (before drifters jump on your initiative), and other privileges that come with it. Most products we have today had no proven demands for them when they were produced

What is life? Dr Hugh Moorhead sent out questionnaire to 250 of the brightest minds that lived in his time, asking the question: What is life? More than half of the 250 respondents replied asking him to please let them know when he finds the meaning of life. Why do you think the greatest psychologists and thinkers in Dr Moorhead's era couldn't answer the question; or maybe we should ask you too: What is life? The Professors were looking for the general meaning to life, and yet if you asked everyone what life means, you'll have as many varied answers as the souls you have asked the question. So it still comes down to this: life has no generalistic meaning; only individual meaning. The question ought to be: What is your life? Your life is only defined by what you use it for. At genuine funerals, other people say what the dead used their lives for. What that means is that, you alone don't have the truth stock value of what your life means; those whom you are suppos

I've dreamt for a long time of an occasion where I can contribute more than I currently do to the general improvement in the lives of people, advancement in their businesses and development of the society. I find no better time than now, and no better place at this time than the city of Kano, Nigeria. So anywhere you are, please join in. Details on attached fliers.

Nigeria has had her fair share of unfair leadership. 2019 should bring some respite to unnecessarily troubled Nigerians. This is the kind of President the country needs in the year: One that will value the lives of the citizens and do everything in his/Her power to protect it from bandits, whoever they are, wherever they are; One that will be ready to stay at home, use the resources at home for medical treatment or leisure and will not run abroad for the treatment of a headache; One that will speak well of Nigeria especially on international stages in line with the vision that he/she has for the country, and not demarket it; One who will be detribalised - manage the diversity of the populace and will be adjudged by the majority of the people as doing just that; One that will not subtly promote the supremacy of one region of the country over another; who will not skew governance benefits and privileges to the region and the people from whom he came; One who though a politici