Isolated Short-term thinking is deadly for human beings. It dismisses patience and persistence in favour of superficiality. It degrades entrepreneurship to silly speculation. It leads to a world of fast love and quicker divorce - Author Unknown (@least at the moment)

I reminisce on the things the Nigerian government had promised us would happen by the year 2000, then 2010, then 2020, then…what next? If I make the ABSURD ASSUMPTIONS that ‘they’ really wanted these things to happen, where did they go wrong? And where do we go wrong as individuals when we have dreams that don’t come to pass?

There are a couple of things (things like qualities, strengths and virtues) that you need to acquire or gain greater stature in, and writing about them sure helps. I tried getting…materials in direction of the title but I found only one or two very relevant ones. Although I remember a book that I read a little while ago and I’ve been encouraged to read regularly, “Science of getting rich”. One of the major ’suggestions’ of the book is to have a long term objective, and then break it down into pieces that you can easily relate with in your day to day activities - As simple as this sounds, it’s simply remarkable!

So as you live out this year, bear in mind that if you can project (long-term plan) and live your month, week, day and minute (short-term plans) with the big picture in view, you’ll surprise yourself at the end of the year. So, let’s kinda break this down.

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Happy New year!

It’s a pity i couldn’t blog before the year ran out. The goal now is to do at least one post every week, So help me God!

Here are a few of the creatives I did just before the year ended; some have still not been completed…

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Time has never been as scarce as it is today. Too many things regularly compete for our time. From work to more work and maybe play to overplay (with the likes of series like 24 and prison break), we’re in for a tough one on mastering our time as against just yielding to what comes our way. I remember a book I once had (I can’t remember how it left me without me reading up to 50%! …I remember a couple of books like that ). In time mastery (something like the next level after time management), it was shown that effective leaders in all spheres conciously or unconciously behave in a way that align with the thought that time is the most important of all resources. Leaders (the next level after managers ) try to exchange people’s time with other resources to take their own goals further than they could have ever dreamt of.

This post, however, is not an expose into the dynamics of time or something. It’s simply to enjoin us evaluate what’s really important to us and how much time we spend on these things. Read the rest of this entry »

What happens when you take a well-designed Beautiful System and turn it inside-out? In other words: What is the ultimate upshot… not for people inside the company, but for customers … of Beautiful Systems? For Customers of Great Design?
Answer: a Full Fledged, Memorable Experience.
Increasingly, the “value added” that a company offers … the “stuff” that can add Billions of Dollars to its market cap … comes from the … Quality of the Customer Experience.
- Tom Peters

One of the most crucial questions every successful firm (brand leader) needs to answer is that of attracting and retaining clients or customers.

There are definitely several factors that could contribute towards this becoming real, but we’ll quickly consider the solution from one (crucial) angle – the angle of customer intimacy. Read the rest of this entry »