The Absurdity That Follows a Job Search

The absurdity that follows a job search

 

One of the absurdities I have observed in this part of the world is that people are more diligent and painstaking in looking for a job than in working when they finally land a job.

What Does Feedback Mean to You?

What Does Feedback Mean to You?

 

Feedback is meant to better our deliverables and improve our processes, and not all of it will be communicated in an agreeable manner. Our duty is to take it in good faith and treat it on its merit without creating bad blood in the process.

An Assignment is a Bestowal of Trust

Assignment or delegation is a bestowal of trust, it is better declined than broken.

The Welfare of Your Computer

The welfare of your computer

 

A computer has no welfare regimen on its own except as wrought by its operator, and the ailments of these tools are as a result of how we manage them. So, blame not your system, but your handling of it, for whatever lapses it is outputting. The computer is not responsible for its own welfare.

Only Attitude and Work Rate Will Get You Favoured

Only attitude and work rate will get you favoured

 

You won’t gain any mileage from an intelligent person by scheming and pushing. Only the right attitude and sincere work rate will get you favoured, not one done with eye service because that is also scheming.

Your Parent Organisation and You

Your parent organisation and you

 

If your brand is stronger, your voice is louder and you are more visible than your parent organisation, you are not wise. They will soon gain from losing you.

How to Maximise your Potentials

What is Potential?

Dictionary Definitions:

Capacity to develop the capacity or ability for future development or achievement.– Microsoft® Encarta® Dictionary

Natural abilities or qualities that may possibly develop and make someone or something very successful or useful.– Longman Dictionary

The inherent capacity for coming into being.– WordWeb Dictionary

Personal Thoughts on Potential

Potentials are the gifts, the talents, the endowments, the riches, the resources as well as the blessings inherent in a human that are yet to be expressed in his/her actions, interactions and works. Once these find expression, they cease to be called potential and then become skills and abilities.– Babatunde Oladele

The fear of not 'starting rightly' is what keeps many a great man and woman from fulfilling their potential. It is what also robs us of ideas and solutions that could have made the world a better place for you and me. I will say, start; if you fail, start again and improve yourself (and your process) along the way. The tortoise makes no progress unless it juts out its head. After all, the Bible says, "the end of a thing is better than the beginning thereof." – Babatunde Oladele

Life is a marathon, but some live it as if it's a 100metre dash; that is why you see some people with so much potential in their youth looking so ordinary in midlife. They have burned out. – Babatunde Oladele

A potential is what you can become. – Babatunde Oladele