I’ve met many “Carrot Danglers” (or CDs) – as friends, coworkers and especially as clients. They basically want to get something for nothing (or as little as possible) from YOU while pretending like they have something to give. My advice: Avoid them. But do so tactfully. The ideas I share in this article are based […]
By many reports, the millennial generation is the most educated generation in US history—and by some stretch. Take a look at this graph from Pew Research. Yet, they have a problem. Despite all this higher education, they have the highest levels of unemployment of any work demographic and they make 20 percent less than their […]
FACT: To give their kids the best chance of success in life, many parents today spend hefty sums to send them to the best schools – sometimes abroad. Sadly, many such kids eventually graduate and have to struggle, alongside less qualified others, to find good employment – or ending up underemployed! So s/he begins life […]
In this week’s issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I feature 2 of my most widely syndicated articles, published over 5 years ago. They contain deep pearls of insights gained from YEARS of working closely with serious minded Farm CEOs to find solutions to REAL LIFE problems that were holding them back. These articles have […]
The truths stated in THIS report is why I INSIST on empowering my kids with real world relevant income earning VOCATIONAL SKILLS as a MAJOR priority – a strategy I advocate for adoption by other parents. Tackling the Rise of Fake Qualifications in Nigeria By Linus Unah on June 6, 2017 The disease of forging education […]
[This article is a public service] Nigeria’s Igbo people continue to complain of being under-recognised, under-appreciated, marginalized and generally sidelined in the affairs of the nation – despite what they consider their hefty contributions to its socio-economic development. As a result, they’ve agitated more intensely to actualize their own separate state – Biafra. But the […]
On Aug 1, 2014, I wrote my article titled: “Bleaching” Your Skin Insults Your Creator, and Makes You Lose Dignity (Message from Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Lupita Nyong’o to Black/African Parents & their Children)” – click here to read it. Back then I had not really come across any notable African celebrity who has spoken […]
[Preamble: This piece comes a day late due to a curious combination of annoyances in the Nigerian space, related to poor power supply and erratic connectivity of a kind I’ve NEVER seen before. I offer details in the post to follow THIS one] In this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement IDEAS (PII) newsletter, I […]
In this issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I feature 3 interesting articles about latest development in Africa’s farm business industry from high profile website publishers namely: The Harvard Business Review, The Guardian and Real Agriculture Dot Com. Topics covered include changes Digital Technology is making in Africa’s Farming, Africa’s farmers’ dependence on government, and the need […]
This article offers a mind-map based anatomy (see image below) of the Dynamic Ration Computation Table that is at the heart of the functionality in my popular Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator Software. My purpose here is to offer potentially useful practical insights into the thinking behind the construction of that table, for best practice purposes. […]
