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The A+ Student And The Process of Success

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Companies do not hire you just because you made good grades in school. You are hired because you’ve demonstrated attributes which resulted in a good outcome (good grades). To get good grades, you managed your time, showed discipline to accomplish a purpose, etc. The assumption is this: if you can apply those attributes in a job, the outcome would be good. You must understand that the processes to get a good grade are more important than the grade. Most attributes to success are universal while grades are not.  Staying on course with those attributes makes the future predictable even when the grades become irrelevant!

Success in life is not defined by academic grades even though good grades will not hurt. The fact is this: a person can make As in a university-life-phase and still fail drastically in a professional-life-phase. While the phase-exams are different, behind them are clear relationships: process. It is safer to hire an A student than a C student as the A student had demonstrated the ability to set goals (every student desires to make good grades) and accomplished them. The key thing is not the A but the process that leads to the A. Simply, if you hire that A-student graduate, and he/she continues to apply those principles, there is a high chance he can deliver A performance in the company.

In other words, the As mean nothing; it is the process that matters. That process includes activity prioritization, dedication, focus, time management, etc which the student had elegantly managed to get A. Yes, he may not be the smartest student in class. The smartest student had been overwhelmed, failing to manage his time, and ended with B.

This is why I tell people that finished with poor grades: your problem is not the poor grades but the processes that produced the grades. Until you fix the processes, you may continue to struggle in your career.  If you have the capacity for “C” and worked really hard and made a “B”, you are far better than someone that possess capability for A but ended in B. Why? He is a dropper and is losing steam, and could be falling to the bottom.

Processes to good grades are more important than the grades in school. If you made good grades in school, and while working, abandon the processes that produced them, you will start recording poor grades in life! Those success-attributes are universal.

I Am Not A Black Man, I Am An African.

By
Olanrewaju Adekunle
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The Founder of Christ Embassy – a big church in Nigeria with a global spread, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, made some statements recently that really caught my attention….actually, it got me thinking.

In a telecast to members of his church, Oyakhilome said:

“Maybe I should tell you something, those of you that say black lives matter, I feel sorry for you! Do you really believe you have a black life? Do you want me to read to you the meaning of black?

Who called you Black? Shouldn’t you have rejected that from the beginning? A contradiction, a bundle of contradiction. You refused negro and nigga…. but that is what black is. You took the English version.

Negro means black. Do you know what black means…. Have you seen black? Black means the absence of colour, absence of good, absence of light and absence of direction. Black is not a colour but the absence of colour.”

There is global agreement that words are powerful. Words can create and break down. Words can be a sole decider between what is possible and what is not possible. Words have psychological implications, and for those who believe there is more to this life than the obvious, words have spiritual implications.

Maybe by a single word – “Black”, Africans have accepted a personal and social definition that has inadvertently created foundational dysfunctionalities that could explain the ugly realities of our political, social and economic lives.

Black is synonymous with darkness and none of these represent anything good. Literally, it is an unadmirable colour, and figuratively, it truly represents an absence of good, an absence of light and an absence of direction – something that sharply defines the reality of the African existence compared to the other continents of the world.

There are many Africans whose complexion are not dark, yet they are referred to as Blacks.

Even in cases where the complexion of an African man is dark, does it make sense to refer to him/her as a black man? Is the colour of his eyeballs also dark? Or would you call him a white man because his eyeballs’ colour are white? Is the colour of his blood dark? Or would you refer to him as a red man because the colour of his blood is red?

So why should an African or anyone of African origin/linkage be referred to as a black man/woman? Where is the rationale?!

The description of Africans as Black was never a natural phenomenon. It was an artificially created adjective that has its source in the African colonial heritage.

To better understand the fraud and ill-intention behind this adjective, the Europeans, Americans and almost anyone who is not of African origin or do not have traces or linkage to Africa are usually referred to as White men.

Well, I’ve seen white colour, I know what colour is called ‘White’, I know how ‘White’ looks –  and from that knowledge, I know there is no human being that is white in complexion.

But it fits into the narrative the colonialists and the West wanted to create and that narrative still hold strong till date.

Pastor Oyakhilome could be right in many ways than we realize. A black man can’t be capable of running a structured government that exist in the service of his citizens, a black man can’t be incorruptible in public or private service, a black man can’t be capable of leading any advancement in ingenious knowledge and technology, a black man can’t respect the fundamental human right of his fellow citizens, a black man can’t practice religion without intolerance for people of different faith……

What good can ever come out of a man tagged with a colour that represents the opposite of good?

Words are powerful and maybe this ‘Black’ tag is part of the African foundational issues.

It is for these reasons that I affirm that I am not a black man and there are no black men. I am an African man and the only adjective that holds true is the African adjective.

You Are More Than READY – Lead and Ascend

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Let me assure you one thing: you are more than READY. Lead and Ascend.

Sometimes, take risks and find ways to FALL FORWARD. Applying for only jobs which you are 100% ready means you are not advancing your career. Indeed, the job which you are 100% ready is essentially at parity with your current role. To advance, and move to the next level, you must aim HIGHER. Your mentality must be like that kid in kindergarten who raises her hand to answer before the teacher finishes the question. Yes, “I am ready to lead this division and my current results demonstrate so”.

 

Nigerian Don Appointed into UNESCO Scientific Committee on AI and Social Innovation

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Rasheed Adebiyi
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A Nigerian university don, Dr Ifeyinwa Nsude has been appointed as a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Social Innovation in Bordeaux, France. The appointment was on the premise of her attendance and presentation at the 2019 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Innovation in Bordeaux.

This was made known in her release made available to journalists and other professional colleagues on the platform of African Council for Communication Education, Nigeria Chapter.

Nsude, who is a Senior Lecturer and the immediate past head at the Department of Mass Communication, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, South East Nigeria, was grateful to God and the Management of the university for sponsoring her trip to France. She is also selected as a member of the Scientific Committee of the 2021 UNESCO Chair Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Innovation. The committee is to review the papers submitted before the symposium and evaluate the same after the Colloquium in Bordeaux.

She described the recent appointment as a challenge to her and an opportunity to serve humanity better, research more on Artificial Intelligence and how Africans can design their own AI to suit their environment.

While speaking to our correspondent, she said the appointment implied more diversification and interdisciplinary collaboration. She posited that her first task will be to establish a link between UNESCO and Ebonyi State University, as well as Nigeria, particularly in the area of AI.  She averred that she would be more focused on finding relevance for AI in communication and for deployment to solve other social problems confronting the country in particular and  Africa in general. She said, “We are talking about achieving the SDGs. 

Right now, there is an urgent need to tackle the issue of attaining these goals of SDGs. We started from MDGs but we couldn’t reach the goals, now it is SDGs.  How are we coping with attaining such goals in 2030? How can AI help us to achieve these objectives of SDGs? Why the SDGs are good is because they summarized our social problems. Now, let me give you one example, we are talking about zero hunger in Nigeria. How can AI help us to achieve zero hunger through Agriculture? Now, the emphasis is on how our own Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, can design indigenous AI that will actually help us to tackle our problems.”

She further challenged communication scholars to create the needed awareness on the design of indigenous artificial intelligence,the benefits and the challenges.

Product Design And Packaging At Tekedia Institute

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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How do you design and how do you package? We are truly honoured for a masterpiece from Kemisola Oloriegbe, MNSE,R.Eng,PMP,CSSBB of Nigerian Breweries Plc for using her experiences to nurture a new generation of designers and packaging experts. The fact is this – these niche domains are not common.

Kemisola is a registered engineer with B.Eng from FUT Akure in mechanical engineering. She also graduated from the prestigious industrial engineering program of the University of Ibadan with a master’s degree. And she is a Lean Six Sigma holder.

She is a Packaging Technologist, trained in one of the nation’s best technical universities – FUT Akure – as a Mechanical Engineer. She graduated with a Master’s degree from one of the few industrial engineering programs in Africa at University of Ibadan. She has blended that engineering heritage with an MBA. Today, as a packaging professional in Africa’s largest brewery, by volume, she makes sure that the products are delivered to customers in the right ways, for maximum refreshment.  She is a  Lean Six Sigma, and a registered engineer.

Kemisola Oloriegbe, a Tekedia Institute Faculty, will lead a session on Product Design and Packaging during Tekedia Mini-MBA.

Learn design and packaging from the few experts in the field at  Tekedia Mini-MBA; join here.

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