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GETTING A JOB IN THE CORPORATE WORLD

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Getting started Creative Strategy and the lack of it has contributed to what we now understand as unemployment. In the corporate world, finding a job is often not about the size of your C.V but what you can offer.  There is this popular notion that to get a job you must have connections to one or two influential people or bribe your way through. This has made many young people reluctant to go in search of jobs, especially in Nigeria. Our society has grown beyond the point where people should get stuck in the crowd all because they do not have an income. There is the constant roar of ‘no jobs’. Most people blame the government; some blame other people, who they feel should have given them jobs through their own connections. For others, superstition and outrageous beliefs stand in the way. Dwelling on the above will certainly not give you a job. You need to make the conscious effort to look inwards, and attempt to eliminate some external factors or internal confl

SAILING FORWARD WITH STRATEGY!

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Passion and strategy make for the most sophisticated combination. And for the many who are seeking to make something out of life, one of the things to note is that, no matter what has been conceived, without the strategy to drive the same, everyone might as well call off their attempts and go home. I have come to realize that moving forward is all about strategic thinking and the approach. Many of the times, we fail in a particular venture, campaign, pursuit or other because we do not plan for the long term that is backed up by firm submissions and clarity. A good plan minimizes the risk of failure, irrespective of the odds. It is not enough to play forward an idea, and simply expect same to catch on because it is great on paper. Eventually, it always come down to how you plan to nurture and sustain that idea through the stages of growth and maturity. It so happens that many of us are big on ideas but not on strategy. The HOW to maneuver through hoops with available resource