I wrote this free eBook; The Unemployment Manifesto to expose the staggering state of unemployment among Nigerian youths and offer a way out! Unemployment: The REALITY The level of idleness or unproductivity among young adults in Nigeria has risen to a proportion that demands the enactment of a state of emergency on unemployment. Unemployment: The STATS Here are some very troubling statistics; With an estimated 170 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. The Nigerian National Youth policy (2001:2), defines … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Motivation 3.0 – Understanding Motivation in the Blackberry Age
What we know about motivation came from the 1900s through the likes of Frederick Winslow Taylor, who invented what he called “scientific management”. Now this is the puzzle. Over the century (1900-2012), the world has morphed in so many ways that we can’t resist asking if what we know about motivating people isn’t ‘outdated, unexamined, and rooted more in folklore than in [modern] science’. Daniel Pink in his book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, provides in easy to read prose, a most audacious and thought-provoking expose of ‘what … [Read more...]