By Goke Ilesanmi Stakeholders have continued to blame the high rate of unemployment in this country on our school curricula that are not tailored towards making students entrepreneurs after graduation. Consequently, most times, graduates that even want to venture into self-employment or entrepreneurship after a long search for jobs do not know where to start
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By Goke Ilesanmi If you discover that people, even those who know you very well, do not quite understand whom you really are and what they can rely on you to do for them, then, there seems to be a gap between perception and reality. In other words, there is a gap between the
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By Goke Ilesanmi One attribute that accelerates human success is strong interpersonal skills. This is because the way we are perceived by people around us plays a major role in our day-to-day happiness at home, in the office; and also determines our career future among other things. So, no matter how hard we work
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By Goke Ilesanmi Discipline is about being able to control your own behaviour so that you can do what you are expected to do without being told by anybody. It is also a way of training your mind or learning to control your behaviour and obey rules. It is also known as “self-discipline”. We
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By Goke Ilesanmi Dreams, they say, are only dreams until you really believe in them and have an action plan to realise them. So, a dreamer with a vision will create an action plan to move forwards towards his or her goal. Some people have dreams that go astray and when that happens, their
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By Goke Ilesanmi Whether you are a business person, a young person starting out or a married couple, you aspire to lead a life that counts for something. To succeed in life, you need to create a vision for yourself for the long-term future because the clearer your vision, the faster you move towards
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By Goke Ilesanmi Many entrepreneurs today believe they are too busy to accord issues such as creation of a mission statement or credo due attention. This is because they think a mission statement or credo is of little or no effect or importance. Even if they acknowledge the importance of any of these, they
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By Goke Ilesanmi Motivation is the key ingredient for success in any organisation. You can have all the technical skills in the world, but if you cannot motivate your team, it will be difficult to achieve success. Motivation has long been recognised as being vital to the fulfilment of human potential. It has never
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By Goke Ilesanmi Irrespective of what we do and how perfectly we think we have done it, criticism is inevitable. Criticism is even so celebrated that we have different categories of critics. There are textual critics that criticise or assess texts. There are also social critics that criticise developments in the society, including government
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By Goke Ilesanmi Time, they say, is money. We are working longer hours, sleeping less, yet achieving decreased productivity in the process. This situation has made the issue of how people use or misuse time worthy of attention. People are categorised in many ways. Some like to distinguish between extroverts and introverts. Others prefer
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