I used to run the 21km half marathon competitively. While in Primary six, I remember winning several of these races in our village during local primary school competitions. But spotting talent and nurturing it is next to impossible especially if you are in a village school without opportunities to partake in the district competitions. Even if one makes it to the district, and wins, getting to the national level, let alone the regional level competitive sports event is not easy. You must be an outlier and also very lucky to get discovered. In the village, the best bet is to…

What is your long-term game? How do you create capabilities for sustainable and business profitable operations to win both in the medium and long-term? Already, margins in businesses are shrinking at a faster rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic and generally poor morale and so much misery. Now is the time to explore how to redefine your business or enterprise to emerge better positioned in the target market and resilient. What is your value creation proposition (strategy) and how to monetize it (business model) today and in the future to win and sustain your market advantages? Given the relentlessness of…

2020 is finally coming to an end. One of the top entrepreneurs in the world, Jack Ma, is quoted to have said that “your biggest profit this year is completing the year 2020 alive.” He is spot on. So many people have died during the first half of December 2020. Rule number one is to stay alive. With life, you can dare to dream. It does not matter how much money you may have in the bank account, if life is leaving you or you are too weak to mind about it anymore, the bank balance is useless. This year…

Health Talk: Today Topic is Take Care of Yourself: Please you have one life to live 1. The STOMACH is injured when you do not have breakfast in the morning. 2. The KIDNEYS are injured when you do not even drink 10 glasses of water in 24 hours. 3. The GALLBLADDER is injured when you do not even sleep until 11 o’clock and do not wake up to the sunrise. 4. The SMALL INTESTINE is injured when you eat cold and stale food. 5. The LARGE INTESTINES are injured when you eat more fried and spicy food. 6. The LUNGS…

There are so many challenges you could easily forget about cybersecurity. However, with most children now studying online, they are inevitably exposed to cyber risks ranging from online predators to cyber bullying and impersonation. We are now in a time that has posed a concern for cybersecurity more than ever before. The top six cyber threats are children, parents, and homes exposed to doing virtual learning. 1. Phishing email messages are designed to try to get learners to share their personal information without realizing it. In many cases, the scammer will use the student’s identity to access their information and…

I have received a lot of bad news in the last two weeks, that I am becoming dizzy. The year 2020 is ending on a very bad note. The news of the passing of close friends is increasing by the day. This is so bad as we move closer to the Christmas week, usually of celebrations. I grew up in a Christian home, and have fond memories of the festivities in December, which peak on the 25th as we go to Church to celebrate Christmas Day when the Lord Jesus Christ was born. In the week of December, we would…