Career Development
To Move Up, Treat Your Subordinates With Respect
July 18, 2013









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they're capable of being" - Johann Von Goethe What you’re about to read is based on a true story. People usually start […]







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My DN Travel News
You May Not Need New Ideas
July 16, 2013









If you’re struggling to achieve sustained progress towards your goal, it could be because you're making the mistake described in this article. Sometimes we spend too much time, effort and resources searching for new ideas to achieve our set goal, and fail to make the most of the ones we already have. This makes us […]







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Entrepreneurship
4 Essential Factors Affecting Feed Formulation
July 16, 2013









In formulating your rations, there are four crucial considerations you need to keep in mind. I discuss them below in a question-answer format. I suggest you actively work through them in your decision making: 1. What feed ingredients are regularly available locally; in what condition do they come – and at what price? Knowing the […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 98: Boost Your Credibility by Writing
July 15, 2013









If I sound like a broken record on how writing builds name recognition, it’s because I continue to experience amazing benefits from doing it. And I see others reap similar rewards too. IMPORTANT TIP: I discovered the power of writing as a means of self-promotion, when I read Burt Dubin's "Why and How to Get […]







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My DN Travel News
Write More Productively - 2 Proven Ways to Prevent Burnout
July 13, 2013









I recently read 2 of my favourite writers sharing about how they overcame some form of burnout. I don’t mean writer’s block. As I’ve said before, I do not believe it (i.e. writer's block) exists. But burnout – just like it happens in other areas of endeavour, such as sports - does really occur in […]







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General
Proof that Schooling Can Dis-Empower Your Child Economically!
July 12, 2013









I recently posted a Facebook comment on an article titled Beware Africa's "Middle Class". The author - Bright B. Simons - provided an accurate analysis of the nature of today’s African middle class of consumers. He rightly warned foreign investors to avoid stereotypes in making sense of this group. For instance, to estimate the size […]







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Career Development
You Can’t Establish Expert Authority with Money
July 11, 2013









In some parts of the world, some people get accorded authority status based on unproven wealth they display – and rarely little else. I grew up in a society where it happened (happens!)…a lot. However, authentic expert authority is not achieved by “showing money”. It comes via demonstrating verifiable, value-adding competence. This article provides insights […]







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My DN Travel News
Graduates Can Use Purposeful Self-Development to Succeed
July 10, 2013









Many young people today complete their university education, only to have the shocking realities of - a seemingly hostile - real world tell them they're inadequately prepared to succeed in it. When I graduated in 1992, I went on to observe my service year in Gulu-Vatsa village (remote, off-grid village...at the time) in Nigeria’s Niger […]







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Career Development
Fast-Food Energy: Self-Repairing “Artificial Leaf” Cheaply Generates Electricity from Dirty Water (New Discovery)
July 9, 2013









A research team has developed a "self-repairing artificial leaf" that produces electricity from dirty water. This is a milestone achievement, in the drive for sustainable energy. Forward thinking governments of developing countries may find it useful to explore adopting this new technology. This is a major advancement in efforts to develop alternative – and sustainable […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 97: Forget Circumstances, Create Your Opportunities (Bruce Lee)
July 8, 2013









Last Friday, my article titled “Young People Must Be Taught to Be Original” attracted over 100 views in 48 hours. It describes an extremely abusive use of a popular article I published (in 2009), by a young blog owner. He did not want to do the work of creating his own opportunities. Instead he settled […]







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