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Personal Branding – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:39:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg Personal Branding – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 You’re Powerful http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/youre-powerful Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:39:56 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11835 If they say I can’t, And I say I can, I have to choose whose word I believe, And then prove it! It’s tempting to choose what they say, because it’s easier to prove; Just do nothing

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]]> Competing with Artificial Intelligence http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/competing-artificial-intelligence Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:05:22 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11830 I was just reading an article about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going me to make me obsolete in a few years, which was a little disheartening. As I thought about the article, it occurred to me that there are few areas I can always have the advantage over AI  if I work on them. …

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]]> Skill Matters: Life Trading Values, By Olurotimi Odejayi http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/personal-branding/skill-matters-life-trading-values Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:37:35 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11702 Olurotimi Odejayi   The word “value” (in economics), means “a measure of the benefit that an economic actor can gain from either a good or service.” Source is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/value. That is, a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged. The topic means that it is expedient for the youth …

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]]> Thinking begets Creativity, by Olurotimi Odejayi http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/motivation-self-help/thinking-begets-creativity Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:29:23 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11700 Olurotimi Odejayi To be creative requires having a clear mind for thinking as well as for receiving inspiration. This however demands that you have prior skill in a particular field of endeavour and be familiar with the kernel of this field of endeavour. This is preferably what you have been practicing on a daily basis. …

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]]> Two Things You Can Still Do This Year, by Darasimi Oshodi http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/motivation-self-help/two-things-you-can-still-do-this-year-by-darasimi-oshodi Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:49:41 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11611 by Darasimi Oshodi Sometime ago, I took my wife to the hospital for treatment of cough and catarrh. It was our first time of visiting that hospital to see a doctor so we had to obtain a new patient’s card. We paid for the card without stress but it was not the same with obtaining …

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]]> Superstars and Superflaws http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/superstars-superflaws Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:56:49 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11553 By Darasimi Oshodi Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius, Aaron Hernandez. Why are superstars falling from grace to grass? Pistorius’ and Hernandez’s cases are still in court so it is subjudice, using the legal parlance, meaning one cannot make any conclusive statement on them, at least not in public. The sports world was shaken earlier this year …

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]]> The Demystification of Jose Mourinho http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/demystification-jose-mourinho Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:48:18 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11544  By Darasimi Oshodi “I don’t feel comfortable enough to tell you what I think about the game. We’re in trouble. It is a concern [conceding so many goals]. I don’t like it, I don’t organise my teams to be like this.” Jose Mourinho, December, 2013 I have got a huge respect for Jose Mourinho, even …

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]]> The Ten Thousand-Hour Rule: Becoming a Champion http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/motivation-self-help/thousand-hour-rule-champio Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:57:22 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11529 By Darasimi Oshodi “Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a demonstration of their championship character.” The statement above is credited to Michael Jordan who is arguably the best basket ball player …

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]]> There will always be Garbage In http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/filter-out-garbage Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11526 By Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager There is a popular saying that ‘garbage in, garbage out’.  What this means is that if you receive poorly refined instructions, codes, methodology, you act on it as you receive it. When this is true, it reduces one to the level of a robotic machine or a lower level being. What …

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]]> Less Can be More in Speeches: Beware of Selfishness http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/personal-branding/time-conscious-speaker http://www.talkafrique.com/career-tools/personal-branding/time-conscious-speaker#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:12:14 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11504 by Dr. Kwabena Amponsah-Manager Why do speakers often go over the time offered to them by their host or organizers? The simple answer is that we’re just selfish. We love to take more than we are given. It’s a pleasurable thing to do. When you’re going to give a speech, one thing you need to …

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