Saturday, 15 December 2012
Nollywood Actress Genevieve Nnaji And Her Father
The 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time
Great ideas are hard to come by. Putting them to work is even harder. Meet the founders who turned concepts into companies and changed the face of business.
Big ideas of the ground-shifting variety are rare -- and hard to pull off. But that's the difference between the dreamer and the doer. It took Bezos all of 48 hours to decide to quit his job and get started. Some 18 years later, he's still at the helm of Amazon.com, which has redefined the way people buy almost everything, employs 56,200 people, and is valued at more than $80 billion.
Having spent years studying Bezos and others like him as an author, senior writer, and editor at both Business Week and Fast Company, I can tell you that Bezos is one of those rare birds who have made a meaningful mark on our economy and our world. He would certainly be on anyone's list of the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of my generation. Who else should make that cut? After spending the better part of the past year pondering that question for a new book, World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It (Portfolio Penguin), I was asked by Fortune who deserves to be on that list -- and what we can learn from each of them.
Many are obvious -- from the late Steve Jobs, who helped make Apple the hottest and most valuable company on the planet, to Mark Zuckerberg, who will take Facebook public in what is anticipated to be the biggest IPO of all time (at a value of more than $80 billion). But there will be a few surprises too, such as N.R. Narayana Murthy, the visionary founder of Infosys who has built one of the largest companies in India, helping to transform that economy and put it on the world stage.
Another surprise: Not a single woman makes the list of the top 12 -- at a time when women have gathered more influence and power in business than ever before. Oprah Winfrey has leveraged her celebrity into a formidable media empire, and the late Body Shop founder Anita Roddick proved that you could market products by being socially and environmentally responsible. They clearly warrant honorable mention but have not, in my view, transformed the face of business or society in as profound a way as those singled out here.
Admittedly this list of the world's greatest entrepreneurs is subjective. I based it largely on social and economic impact; the world-changing vision of a founder who has inspired employees and other entrepreneurs alike; a record of innovation; and the actual performance of their companies over time. These founders created and then nurtured healthy, sustainable organizations that now have a combined market value of more than $1.7 trillion. They directly employ more than 3 million people, ranging from a high of 2.1 million at Wal-Mart to just over 3,000 at Facebook.
Yet those numbers only touch the surface. Each of their companies sits at the nucleus of a thriving ecosystem that has cultivated and nurtured dozens if not hundreds of other enterprises. Small companies have thrived as suppliers, for example, to Whole Foods, which, among other things, buys produce from more than 2,000 local farms. So the power of each of these organizations extends far beyond its own walls. Here are my choices:
1. Steve Jobs
2. Bill Gates
3. Fred Smith
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Grilled goat meat & sautéed efo
So, this was a quickie. I was hungry, oga was out so what could a
girl whip up quickly that was both healthy, but required little effort
on my part? After poking around the fridge to see what my options were I
came up with this dish. Now, I have not eaten goat meat in ages. In
fact I’ve been avoiding it completely. Partly because when you buy it
from the market it has the skin on it and the bone in. Now although bone
in meat is much tastier than boneless, the bones on goat meat tend to
be quite brittle. So I never really enjoy eating it for the bones.
Besides, Nigerian goats are quite lean and so spending more time
fighting the bones versus savouring the meat is hardly my first choice.
Anyhoot! I went to a local supermarket in Victoria Island Lagos with an
in-store butcher and here it was, a nice lean cut of boneless goat meat.
Mind you I bought this a couple of weeks ago Waec Certificate to prove Chika's age !
iPad shipments could reach 100 million in 2013
Apple (AAPL) sold 42.8 million iPad tablets into channels through the first three quarters of 2012 and the most recent estimates suggest the company could ship 26 million more iPads during the holiday quarter. If Apple
does manage to hit that record, total iPad shipments on the year would
reach 68.8 million units. As impressive as that would be,
however, DisplaySearch analyst David Hsieh thinks 2013 iPad sales could
Massacre of the Innocents: Chilling Details About the Gunman in the Schoolhouse
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A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher, following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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She ran into another mom at the front entrance, where visitors had to be buzzed in. That’s when it became
Business lessons from hookers- A review for event managers
There are lessons to be learnt from every profession, no matter what the profession is. These are secrets you can implement in your businesses, and for your events, and make a name for yourself. This is a review of what motivational speaker and teacher, Steve Harris, shared, mixed with my viewpoint on the topic.
- -Mark your territory: Make a name and brand for yourself, and your event, and let it stick in people’s minds. Make the event memorable.
- -Where can your audience find you? Where is your corner? Who are your target audience? What comes to people’s minds when your name or event is heard? where can they find out more about you?
- -How recognizable is your event? How easy or difficult is it to explain what you do? what does your flyer or poster look like?
- -You have to go out and get your customers. Look for your target audience. Why should they attend your event? Give them incentives.
- -Dress the part. now we are talking venue decor, ambiance, seating arrangement, anything to make your
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[Relationship-Talk] A dilemma
Hello everyone, my name is James. My story starts like this, I met a young lady on facebook about a month ago. The relationship got very close, very fast. To the point we exchanged email addresses and cell phone numbers. Our communication was coming along nicely and we chatted every day. Even when she went to a friends wedding in another state, she never lost contact. We would talk until late at night on the phone. We are both christians and we felt that is what brought us together. Then, she expressed how she was falling in love with me and I felt the same. Now comes the tricky part, the whole scenario has changed. Due to a financial mishap, her whole world has spun out of control. She has four children and is divorced. Her rent payments, and even her kids, are taking a toll on her. Even her car seems unreliable due to its condition. She is in serious debt and may lose what she has gained. Her job situation changed, due to a cut back in her hours. Since all this has happened, the constant contact is not there anymore. It feels as if she has disappeared off the face of the earth, and I am very confused. If someone says they love you, then how come I am being suddenly ignored? I am not responsible for her financial problems, but yet I feel as if I have done something wrong. Even though she explained this situation to me, I still have a hard time understanding it. So, I decided to email her to make it very clear that it would be best if we break things off clean. It exhausts me to worry about whether or not I am still the guy she wants. Now I hope, for the both of our sakes, we can move on with our lives and better ourselves as people. Any advice would be truly appreciated. Was my "Dear Joan" letter a good idea? Feeling pushed away, James
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Friday, 14 December 2012
The perfect man DOES exist ... in fact there are FIVE of them out there!
According to
a new research in match.com’s annual LoveGeist report, there IS a perfect man
for each stage of a woman’s life. The infographic reveals that;
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Women aged 18-24 are suckers for six packs
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25-34 value career driven men
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35-44 are happy to date a man 5 years older
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Women over 45 often date younger men
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55+ women still value sexual compatibility and are
pickiest daters
Kim K's midriff spills out in a black leather peplum skirt & crop top
Matthew Ashimolowo completes billion Naira KICC University
KICC University sits atop over 500 acres. The National University Commission of Nigeria requires at least 250 acres of land for a university campus.
The university would be structured around six faculties and 22 mainstream departments. The Schools of Medical Science and Pharmacy in the College of Medical Sciences as well as the Faculty of Law are to run faculty/school-based degree programmes. Academic activities would commence initially in two Schools: Humanities, Management & Social Sciences, and Information Science and Technology. Courses to be developed by the School of Information Science and Technology will be central to the teaching programmes in all Departments. There is a total of 59 academic programmes.
Premier League - Paper Round: Henry in at Arsenal as Real target Wenger
Thierry Henry is being groomed to replace Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager as Real Madrid prepare to swoop for Wenger this summer, according to an extraordinary report in Friday's papers.
The Daily Mirror claims that Real Madrid president Florentino Perez wants the Gunners boss to replace Jose Mourinho, who is widely expected to leave the Spanish champions in the summer after a miserable start to the current campaign.
And while Henry would probably not take over straight away, Arsenal
shareholder Alisher Usmanov is determined to bring the French striker
back to the club permanently as part of the coaching staff.Despite Arsenal's failure to win a trophy since 1853 (or something like that) Wenger is still one of just three
How Karren Brady made £82 million!!!
She might be a footballer’s wife, but Karen Brady’s fame and fortune are entirely her own doing.
Known as the first woman of football, Karren Brady shot
to fame when she was appointed managing director of Birmingham City
Football Club in 1993 aged just 23. She took the club from the brink of
bankruptcy to being a viable business.
Twenty years later with an estimated net worth of £82 million, she’s one of the UK’s best known female entrepreneurs. At the moment as well as being vice-chairman at West Ham, she’s also a regular on our TV screens, appearing on ‘Young Apprentice’ as one of Sir Alan Sugar’s sidekicks and has also appeared as an advisor on ‘The Apprentice’.
Twenty years later with an estimated net worth of £82 million, she’s one of the UK’s best known female entrepreneurs. At the moment as well as being vice-chairman at West Ham, she’s also a regular on our TV screens, appearing on ‘Young Apprentice’ as one of Sir Alan Sugar’s sidekicks and has also appeared as an advisor on ‘The Apprentice’.
Other roles include being a non-executive board member of Arcadia and a Sun columnist. She’s also a wife and mother; Brady married former Birmingham player Paul Peschisolido in 1995 and the Birmingham-based couple have two teenage children.
How does she do it?
Brady was brought up in Edmonton, north London. Her father, Terry Brady, was a self-made businessman
Did a Reporter Capture a Ghost on Camera in Haunted House?
Does it have to be Halloween for
ghosts to make themselves known? Those who believe in the existence of
the supernatural certainly do not think so. Even those who may not
believe that paranormal activity is real may find it difficult not to
glimpse something mysterious in a video
that is beginning to go viral. Vanessa Bolano, a reporter for WGNO in
New Orleans, did a story about the Myrtles Plantation in St.
Francisville, Louisiana. While inside the home on the plantation, Bolano
does a traditional news standup, and she wraps up and heads back to the
TV station to edit her piece.
The home that is situated on the
Myrtles has been called one of the most haunted houses in America, and
Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's Statement Regarding Release Of Her Kidnapped Mother
Ngozi okonjo-Iweala and Queens Mother, Professor Mrs. Kamene Okonjo
By Paul C Nwabuikwu
However, the statement praised President Goodluck Jonathan, security agencies and some state governors
Wedding in a Truck!!!!!
Roman Abramovich Makes Radamel Falcao Chelsea's Top Earner!
Chelsea owner Roman
Abramovich is prepared to make Radamel Falcao the club's top earner by
offering the striker a staggering £10million-a-year contract.
The Colombia
forward is the club's No 1 transfer target and the Russian billionaire
is determined to ensure the prolific South American becomes the next
global superstar to
Armed Robbers Wearing Police Uniform, Invaded Peace Mass Transit Park In Nsukka
The robbers were
disguised as police officers.
Passengers, staff and residents of Nsukka were gripped with
fear when armed robbers on Thursday, invaded Peace Mass Transit Park in Nsukka,
Enugu State, carting away an undisclosed amount of money.
A staff of the company, who pleaded anonymity, said that the
seven-man
POP NEWS| RIO FERDINAND LIKES TIMAYA'S 'SHAKE YOUR BUM'
Manchester United player, Rio Ferdinand really likes Nigerian music. The
former United and England skipper tweeted that he likes Timaya's 'Shake
Your Bum'. "Track of the day- Bom Bom by Timaya...like a lot!
#afrobeats" tweeted Ferdinand.
The acceptance and popularity of Nigerian contemporary sounds abroad
especially in England is due to the rise of Afrobeats (coined by foreign
music journalists). This shouldn't be mistaken for Fela's genre
Afrobeat. Artistes in the forefront of the Afrobeats sound are Wizkid,
Ice Prince and D'Banj.
NEWS ALERT: Okonjo-Iweala's Mother Freed
A security source has just confirmed to Saharareporters that
the kidnapped mother of Nigeria's finance minister, Professor Kamene Okonjo has
been freed by security forces in Delta state.
Professor Okonjo was kidnapped by dare-devil kidnappers from
her home on December 9 2012 while attending to workers fixing her palace gate.
Jamb, Mercy Johnson, Davido, Boko Haram, Chelsea, Lead Google’s Top Searches of 2012
The site showcases over 800 top-ten lists across pop culture, sports, music, politics, news, and more. It’s global, spanning over 50 countries. You can check out global search trends, compare terms using interactive data visualizations, and watch the annual Zeitgeist video.
Google has announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2012 through the collective eyes of the world on the
China's salaries to grow by 9.5% next year: consulting firm
A textiles factory in Guangxi. (File photo/Xinhua)
Wages in emerging markets will skyrocket compared to the moderate wage increases for European workers, with the salaries expected to grow by 9% in South America and 7.5% in Asia in 2013, the consulting firm said.
China is expected to have the highest salary growth rate of 9.5%, up 1.1 percentage points from a year earlier and three times the country's forecast inflation rate, said the consulting firm.
Ben Frost, a global product manager at Hay Group, said that inflation, economic conditions and demand are the main factors for the wage increases. Salary growth in emerging markets has been higher than that in developed markets for the last 10 years and the situation will not change in the near future, he said, adding that companies in emerging markets will also invest more on employee training.
As a whole, Asia's salary growth will be extreme at both ends of the scale, with Japan's rate expected to be only 2%.
The firm also expects Europe and North America to record lower salary growth rates next year. The expected real salary growth rate of the US and UK are only 1% and 0.2% respectively, after taking inflation into account.
10 things you should do before the end of 2012!
10 things you should do before the end of 2012!
May 2013 come with good tidings!
- Start an exercise routine.
- Eat one fruit a day
- Find a new, more rewarding hobby
- Volunteer your time or resources to a community cause
- Read the papers!
- Re-evaluate your relationships
- Spend more time with God/meditate on His word
- Buy yourself something you’ve always wanted
- Don’t send a text; go and visit a friend you haven’t seen in a long time!
- Tell yourself the truth on how well you lived 2012
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