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Entrepreneurship is all about leading leading customers to a new product or service, leading a startup team to peak performance, and leading a new business to the market opportunity, while providing maximum return to stakeholders. Most entrepreneurs feel they have innate leadership talents, but struggle with how to nurture these abilities and measure their effectiveness. Since I believe that a large part of leadership is personal confidence and initiative, I was drawn to a new leadership book by Robert S. Murray, “It’s already Inside ”. His focus and belief is that anyone can nurture their innate leadership abilities, to achieve business and life success. The key is learning from the life lessons of others, something you never get in classrooms. He hits many of the key lessons that I have learned from my own experience, and feedback from great leaders, in both large businesses as well as startups. These include the following: 1.      Practicing authe...

See their face radiant as the Arabia Oil. Faces in the crown but there's glowing as time dance by. Beauty below and above yet bile shear in years past. Spirit so free theirs spear in division. Laughing with fangs fix in between their skins, rejoice at their victory the back snapped incorporated. Here we are the chosen one's, many where call but few there stand the heat. Men with balls, women with wombs. Yes some came in single but left in double, we had ours's but inconsistent cripple some actions. Classes of clan where clowns, clicks, buddies and sure P roam our street keeping Us miles in part. Aurelia yes we have those with six inches plus six packs members. Our own little serf stand amidst Us, in oppose of who we are? Some of you I know will sail the ocean blue in search of Eldorado, I ask Eledumare YOU find that land of great myth. And some the white land of mafia's in search of black gold but still many will till the land of the morning sun, their nails soiled in r...

Rising hip hop act, Olaniyan Damilola, popular known as Damino Damoche, was shot dead this afternoon at Lagos State University Ojo gate by people suspected to be cultist. Damoshe was shot twice in the head and hand after he finished writing a test at faculty of management science. He was a Banking and Finance student at LASU. He was popular for his song - obo to she. RIP Bro......

If you’ve read my work or hear me on the radio , you know that I’m crazy about inspiring people to live their dream life. I cringe when people tell me they’re doing jobs they hate, or slugging through daily routines that drain their energy and make them miserable. I think you can make any life possible with the right mix of persistence and patience, and I can’t wrap my head around even the thought of waking up every morning to a life that’s not right for me. It may be obvious to you that when I ask people who are not living their dream life why they’re not living it, they offer up a slew of excuses. It’s as though a laundry list of reasons roll off their tongues and out the door. Before I can reply, they’ve convinced themselves for the umpteenth time that that dream life is unrealistic, impractical, and totally far-fetched. It’s the life reserved for their imagination not a reality that they have the power to create. Sound familiar? Excuses are just excuses, though. They’...

We’re often kept from getting what we want in life more by the demands we place on ourselves than by the demands of others. Pressure, hassles and tension often come when what we want to do conflicts with what we tell ourselves is “right.” We see a messy house and believe we “should” clean it, or we long to pursue a career we’re passionate about, but tell ourselves, “I can’t do that.” If you are stuck “doing the right thing” while sacrificing what you want, your beliefs about how you “should” act may be holding you back. Often, we give up on our dreams or find ourselves mired in daily duties not because others are expecting things from us, but because we expect them from ourselves. These internal rules guide how we spend our money, use our free time and view our careers and relationships. They can originate in external expectations, moral codes or rules that you internalized long ago and now place on yourself. Do you relate to any of the following beliefs: “I should ...

Even though the cause of her death is yet to be confirmed, new reports surfacing online claim that she died from pulmonary embolism while a few other sites claim that she died of drugs . Susan Oluwabimpe Harvey, popularly known as Goldie and Nigeria’s lady Gaga died Thursday night at Reddington Hospital, Victoria Island, Lagos,  barely few hours after she arrived from Los Angeles, United States of America. “Goldie died of complications from the use of drugs. She had complications from the use of dope ” PM News reports  “A close source who is close to Goldie told us that she had been into this drug stuff for some time now…and it is believed that contributed to her death.” “I guess things went wrong this time around” the source reportedly said. Meanwhile, sources from Reddington hospital, where Goldie died last night, disclosed that the likely cause of her sudden death is pulmonary embolism. A report on National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s website, ...

I remember the first time I watched her on television in 2001 – it was Morning Ride on NTA 2 Channels 5. There was this woman with the wide eyes of insanity, a certain craze for the new job she just secured. But there was something remarkable about her, and it wasn’t just the bulging eyes, or the raised voice, the effortless reeling out of data about her sector or the magnetism of this authentically Nigerian woman. It all came together in what I could hear her saying: that she didn’t know anything about this job when she was employed, that she knelt down and prayed to the Virgin Mother for help, and that she would give her life fighting the battle that she had just chosen to fight. Her name was Dr. Dora Akunyili (she would later become a Professor). She had just been appointed by then President Olusegun Obasanjo as the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, and she was fighting a battle that no one else had been able to win ...