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Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:59

These are the 7 worst leadership styles

Not all leaders lead the same way. Some immediately fall in lock-step with their employees and create a thriving company culture, while others take time to develop the skills necessary to lead with confidence. While there’s no hardline right or wrong way to approach leadership, some of the worst leadership styles are best avoided. Thinking back on your career, you can probably point out an employer or two who had leadership styles that you disagreed with. Whether they ignored feedback from their employees, were hands-off in their approach, or micromanaged every single thing that you ever did, their actions made…

Sunday, 13 December 2020 05:21

Harvard psychologist to parents: Do these 7 things if you want to raise kids with flexible, resilient brains

Lisa Feldman Barrett A child’s brain is not a miniature adult brain. It is a brain born under construction that wiresitself to the world. And it’s up to parents to create a world — both physical and social — that is rich with wiring instructions. Based on years of research in neuroscience and psychology, here are seven parenting rules to help your kid build a brain that is flexible and therefore resilient. 1. Be a gardener, not a carpenter. Carpenters carve wood into the shape they want. Gardeners help things to grow on their own by cultivating a fertile landscape.…

Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:10

Why you should be calling someone in, not calling them out

The journey to inclusion is filled with missteps. Here's how to navigate through them with compassion and grace. I recently served on a panel at a town hall for a global company. The topic was "Combating Racism in the Workplace." I brought attention to the rise of hostility and racist acts against Asian-Americans during the Covid pandemic. Shortly after I spoke, I received a private message from one of the company's workers. "My manager constantly refers to Covid as the 'Chinese flu,'" the message read. "I am Asian-American and it makes me very uncomfortable. Is it ethical?" As companies join…

Friday, 11 December 2020 05:37

Wealthy Nigerians are buying citizenship abroad. These are the countries they are going to and how much it costs

Every year an increasing number of Nigerians flee poverty and unrest at home. Now, rich Nigerians are planning their escape too. And they’re taking their money with them. Dapo has spent too long at home in Lagos, Nigeria. Back in October, protests against the SARS police unit kept him from going to his office. “First, we were told to stay at home because of the coronavirus. Then this,” he says. A wealthy Nigerian, Dapo, who is in his late 30s, does not want to make himself identifiable by giving his surname and age, lest it draw unwanted attention. He has…

Tuesday, 08 December 2020 05:17

Sloane Crosley says farewell to 2020: ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you really tired’

If I write anything, it will be from memory. This is what I told my agent over Zoom in September, referring to my lack of note-taking since March. Then I made a gesture meant to encompass all of 2020, but the connection was bad, and my smaller screen froze within his larger one. He said it looked like I was karate-chopping 2020. That sounds nice. But what to chop and where to begin? It is carved into the pyramid walls that each year should end with its survivors expressing glee over its conclusion. Those who’ve had professional and personal successes…

Tuesday, 08 December 2020 05:13

People who confuse these 3 similar words have low emotional intelligence

Do you want to argue? Do you want to persuade? Or do you truly hope to convince? This is an article about how to get what you want in business and in life. It's about three similar words, and how emotionally intelligent people recognize subtle differences among them, which helps them become better advocates--leveraging what we might call a "hierarchy of influence." The three words are: arguing, persuading and convincing. Here's how they differ, and why that matters. A little bit of background We'll start by briefly discussing each word's roots and definition. But remember, our goal is to use…

Sunday, 06 December 2020 04:52

Death in a rice field: Why Boko Haram murdered 78 farmers

The farmers—43 of them—were found in the rice fields where they had gone to work. Some had their throats slit. Others were beheaded. In the days that followed locals found evidence of yet more butchery, taking the toll to 78. Boko Haram, a jihadist group that has been fighting since 2009 to carve out a caliphate in north-east Nigeria, was quick to claim credit for the murders. It said they were revenge for the capture of a militant by locals. The people of north-east Nigeria have grown wearily accustomed to the horrors of Boko Haram, whose name is loosely translated…

Sunday, 06 December 2020 04:48

Religious intolerance is 'bigger cause of prejudice than race', says report

Religion is the “final frontier” of personal prejudice, with attitudes to faith driving negative perceptions more than ethnicity or nationality, a report to be published tomorrow will say. How We Get Along, a two-year study of diversity by the Woolf Institute, is due to conclude that most people are tolerant of those from different ethnic or national backgrounds, but many have negative attitudes based on religion. Religion is a “red line” for many people, the study – based on a survey of 11,700 adults in England and Wales – will say. This is particularly so in the case of Muslims.…

Sunday, 06 December 2020 04:47

Study finds your personality may change but this will always stay the same

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the main gist of a fascinating new study just released by the Complutense University of Madrid that investigated personal identity and how people change and evolve throughout life. Everyone grows and sees their interests, hobbies, passions, and opinions change over time, but does that mean that our very identity changes as well? That’s what researchers set out to investigate, ultimately concluding that the core aspect of one’s identity largely remains the same throughout life. Our attitudes and mindsets are bound to change as the years go by, but that…

Sunday, 06 December 2020 04:44

The three ages when alcohol poses the greatest danger, according to science

The three key stages of life when is most damaging to the brain have been pinpointed by researchers. Over-65s, youngsters in their late teens and babies in the womb are most at risk from the harmful effects of booze, scientists say. And even small measures can have a lasting effect, they warn. These periods in life correlate with ‘dynamic brain changes’ and, as a result, it is particularly sensitive to the harmful effects of alcohol. ‘In older people, alcohol use disorders were shown to be one of the strongest modifiable risk factors for all types of dementia,’ the team of…

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Thursday, 03 December 2020 05:06

It’s all in the script: Row over banknotes shows up ethnic and religious divisions

Malcolm omirhobo is no stranger to the Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. A human-rights lawyer, he is well-known for filing suits against the government, including one for not releasing his ten-year-old son’s exam results. His latest case has created an especially loud buzz. He is arguing that Arabic script (known as Ajami when used to write non-Arabic languages) on certain Nigerian banknotes violates the country’s secular constitution. He wants it removed. He may also petition the army to delete an invocation in Arabic on its flag. With perhaps 200m people and 350-plus languages and ethnic groups, Nigeria…

Wednesday, 02 December 2020 04:41

This airline has no passengers, no cargo and flies one way

They are experts in ferry flights, moving empty aircraft around the world. In the age of Covid-19, with airlines parking and shedding jets, co-founder Steve Giordano and his pilot partners are some of the busiest guys in the sky. About half of the world's fleet of more than 20,000 commercial aircraft are leased to airlines. At the end of a multi-year lease, an airline may decide to re-up or return the plane to the lessor. That is where Jet Test and Transport comes in. Aircraft leasing has been booming business. Unlike a commercial real estate developer's building, or space rented…

Tuesday, 01 December 2020 05:36

Threats. Detentions. Frozen assets. This report by Reuters catalogues the continued crackdown on #EndSARS leaders

At 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Onomene Adene received a call from a man whose voice she did not recognise. The man said he knew her from church and asked for help getting a package to their pastor. She agreed to meet him at a bank near her home in the Nigerian city of Lagos. But shortly after she arrived, according to Adene, three trucks pulled up filled with police armed with rifles and tear gas demanding that she take them to her brother. Terrified, she complied. “It was like they were coming for war,” Adene, 34, recounted days…

Tuesday, 01 December 2020 05:35

#EndSARS: The Nigerian women leading the fight for change

Rinu Oduala is 22 years old and outspoken - Nigeria's government feels so threatened by her that her bank account has been frozen. She was among tens of thousands of young Nigerians, including many women, who made history with the protests that swept the country in October against police brutality. Ms Oduala was one of the first to take to the streets after a video went viral of a man allegedly being killed by the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), sparking what became known as the EndSars demonstrations. She set up camp outside the Lagos governor's office on 7 October,…

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