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30 Brilliant Psychological Life Hacks That Successful People Have Been Using Forever. Edge online - Opinion - In my view - Aspirational leadership vs inspirational leadership. In my view / 18 December 2012 Is it possible to combine aspects of inspirational and aspirational leadership to create a new model? Aspirational leadership and inspirational leadership may have different drivers but they can both deliver success, says Kate Tojeiro Having worked closely over a number of years with senior managers across different industries and observed leadership in its many forms, there is little doubt in my mind that no one style offers a holistic winning formula.

In most businesses today, there are basically two key types of leaders: those driven by inspiration and those driven by aspiration. Organisations that are inspiration-led are influenced by like-minded contemporaries but they don’t rely on role models. Instead, they have a clear vision of where they want the company to be in the future and are able to articulate that vision in a way that is compelling to those around them. Their structure also tends to be more hierarchical than companies that are inspiration-led. The Mystery of Mandela's Arrest. Marcelo Giugale: Fix Africa's Statistics.

How would you feel if you were on an airplane and the pilot made the following announcement: "This is your captain speaking. I'm happy to report that all of our engines checked fine, we have just climbed to 36,000 feet, will soon reach our cruising speed, and should get to our destination right on time.... I think. You see, the airline has not invested enough in our flight instruments over the past 40 years. Some of them are obsolete, some are inaccurate and some are just plain broken. So, to be honest with you, I'm not sure how good the engines really are. And I can only estimate our altitude, speed and location.

First, we don't really know how big (or small) many African economies are. How badly does this skew the data? Second, the latest poverty counts for Africa are, on average, five years old. Third, "industrial" surveys are even more infrequent than household surveys -- only a handful of African countries have done at least one in the last ten years. Platform facilitates event marketing, both online and offline. Gain instant and exclusive access to over 5,000 of the most creative ideas, innovations and startups on our database and use our smart filters to take you direct to those that are most relevant to your industry and your needs. Not interested? You can still browse articles published in the last 30 days from our homepage and receive your daily and weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas through our free newsletters. Africa: Communication Technologies Transform Relief and Development.

Nairobi — Since Africa's first mobile phone network went live in 1994, mobile phone penetration has shot up to 65 percent; access to the internet is also increasing rapidly. Today, information and communications technology (ICT) plays a central role in promoting development and humanitarian assistance. "Communication technology is reshaping the world we live in", said Gabriella Waiijman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Eastern Africa, at a recent event on technology, media and humanitarian aid held jointly by OCHA and the NGO Adesco, in Nairobi. "We need to engage with increasing availability of information communications technology to ensure people have access to the information they need in order to make the right decisions for themselves, and make sure the right communications channels are in place so they can communicate with us," she said.

Below, IRIN explores novel uses of ICT to promote development and deliver aid: Need Some Motivation Right Now? Read This IMMEDIATELY — Think Traffic. If you’re in desperate need of some motivation, we’re going to fix that problem, right here, right now. Prepare yourself. WARNING: I’m going to swear and yell a little in this post. Desperate times call for desperate measures. You said you needed motivation. I’m going to do what needs to be done to get your ass in gear. NO EXCUSES. If this isn’t the kind of motivation you need, leave now. Alright. Here goes. Do you want some motherfucking motivation right now? I SAID, do you want some MOTHERFUCKING MOTIVATION RIGHT NOW? Do you want to get some seriously useful shit done today? Do you want to get off your ass and start producing instead of wallowing in despair, depression, self pity, fear, doubt or whatever is holding you back?

Are you sick of not getting anything done? Let’s DO THIS. The point of this exercise is to give you motivation to do something right now. Follow the steps below carefully. 1. The world doesn’t care. We all face obstacles. Did you catch that? Let me say it again. Period. 2. 3. The World in 2013. Investing: Distinguishing skill from luck. What The Future. Photo editor and photo effects online, edit images with BeFunky.

Africa Past & Present. Free Sample Letters - Business Example Letters 99. Allrecipes - Recipes and cooking confidence for home cooks everywhere. 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index -- Interactive. The Nigerian Dream ~ Wale Babatunde. Dream is a mental picture of a preferable future- Sam Adeyemi Some days back I had a status update of my facebook account on the issue of the Nigerian dream.

The update was as a result of the comment of one of Nigeria hip pop female artist; she said something about living the Nigerian dream and it suddenly dawn on me that, what is the Nigerian dream? And that simple but complex phrase spark a mountain of thought in my inner mind; my mind travels so far to a place in history and back to recent happening in the present day Nigeria. And I finally got curious about what the Nigerian Dream is. I wanted an answer to my quest by any authority either in power or out of power. Anybody that has an idea or a clue about what Nigeria as a country has as a dream. By 29th day of May, Nigeria would be celebrating her 11 years of democracy; a democracy that has witness three executive presidents, six senate presidents and five speakers of the house. The Nigerian Dream | Pointblank News.

By Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA suleaos@gmail.com Nigeria /naɪˈdʒɪəriə/, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. – Wikipedia entry.

Main Entry: 1drēm Pronunciation: \ˈdriːm\ Function: noun 1: a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep 2: a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal 3: an unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy 4: a person or thing perceived as wonderful or perfect 5: a condition or achievement that is longed for Synonyms: aim, ambition, aspiration, delusion, desire, fancy, fantasy, goal, hallucination, hope, image, imagination, impression, intent, mental picture, objective, plan, purpose, target, thought, wish. – Dictionary entry.

What are the drivers of this aggressive pursuit of the Nigerian dream? (1) Kathleen Ndongmo. Find Web Designers from $6 per hour. Bone marrow hope for African patients. 30 October 2012Last updated at 17:07 ET Olabisi Bokinni (l) and Seun Adebiyi (r) had different personal reasons for their interest in bone marrow Cancer dramatically changed the outlook of one Nigerian and prompted him to save countless other lives, writes US-based journalist Frederica Boswell, in this article published in the BBC Focus on Africa magazine In August 2010, Olabisi Bokinni was 24 years old and working at a management consultancy in Ikeja, Lagos, when she learnt that her brother, who lived in the United States, was diagnosed with leukaemia.

"At the time, I did not have a clue about cancer," she says. Doctors focused on his siblings, and sent a package for blood samples to be taken. Her brother's hospital prepared her paperwork for a US visa, but it was denied. It was obvious that they needed another plan, so she was sent to the bone marrow registry in Cape Town, South Africa for the procedure. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteSeun Adebiyi Bone marrow registry.