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… Continue reading The Demystification of Jose Mourinho
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The Ten Thousand-Hour Rule: Becoming a Champion
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… Continue reading The Ten Thousand-Hour Rule: Becoming a Champion
There will always be Garbage In
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… Continue reading There will always be Garbage In
Youth Focus Initiative Honors Falana Afolayan, Others, Report by Ajibola Olarinoye
Legal icon and Human Rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana and top Nigerian film maker, Mr. Kunle Afolayan were among eminent Nigerians honoured by Youth Focus Initiative (Y.F.I) on the recognition of distinguished roles they have played individually in motivating several young people in the society. The historic event tagged “Youth Focus Role Model Awards 2013 and… Continue reading Youth Focus Initiative Honors Falana Afolayan, Others, Report by Ajibola Olarinoye
Less Can be More in Speeches: Beware of Selfishness
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… Continue reading Less Can be More in Speeches: Beware of Selfishness
You Have No Option… Run!
By Darasimi Oshodi In the jungle of Africa, the lion wakes up and thinks to itself that if it must find food, it must run faster than the gazelle while the gazelle thinks to itself that to survive the day, it must outrun the lion. There is a moral to this analogy and the moral… Continue reading You Have No Option… Run!
Celebrated or Tolerated?
Your self-portrait determines your self-confidence and those you stick with have a big part in shaping your self-portrait. Your self-portrait is the way you see yourself and what people say about you contributes to how you see yourself. Do you then see why you need to associate with those who water the seed of greatness in you? It is because your self-portrait controls your self-confidence and conduct
The Thirteen Year-Old African Boy Who Found a Way to Combat Lions
By Darasimi Oshodi This is a story one should hear directly from the horse’s mouth. It will make you appreciate the story better. Richard Turere is a 13-year old Kenyan whose family’s compound is behind the unfenced southern part of the Nairobi National Park. Richard is the one who tends his father’s herd of cattle.… Continue reading The Thirteen Year-Old African Boy Who Found a Way to Combat Lions