pls someone forward to

phlamy2001@gmail.com

Na today?

I ve just stopped posting on NL for a while until today.
My comments were deleted twice.Comments that only begged for an
answer.It was really absurd.I smell a very strong aroma of compromise.
One day, you will seek for 100 postings in 2 weeks, you will not find.
Its not a curse, its the reality. You are making a strategic drift.

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Shame on you MODS.What did I say that made you hide the post.
Well, I no blame una, I guess money has changed hands.
Your house is left to you desolate

You are so jobless, this is the height of idleness.
I guess people dont have better things to do with their lives than
to make comments here and there.
When he speaks you talk, when he does not you still talk.
You are very confused.

@Jakumo, why are you so bitter about life?

URGENT

MODS-CROSS CHECK THIS ONLINE AND DELETE THE THREAD ASAP

THERE IS NO NEWS LIKE THIS ANYWHERE.

Omo, review the 'engrish' for the heading fast!!!

Abeg someone educate me on the difference between what is on now and state of emergency.
How does it work in the Nigeria context.

Someone edit this stuff and lets have it at the front page.
It makes a lot of sense. This is what I talk about in technology,
really disruptive, you cant predict it. Some businesses on its
way would have to bow. Its like that.

I have been part of this forum since Aug.2006 though with a different user which is still very active and strictly for business and have watched how decisions have been made but the particular one formalizing your rules has been interesting.The rules have generated so much comments and to this end I would like to ask some questions and also leave some thoughts though I support a good percentage of your rules.


Is Nairaland a Not-for-profit, a social enterprise or for-profit? but let me assume it is for profit and leave some few lines below.

1. You are at a precipice of change, watch the decisions carefully.Your stakeholders management strategy is poor, change management of this nature would be best from a bottom-up approach than top-down. If you subjected these rules to a referendum via online poll, you would be shocked to know that so many people would still support all of them hence vindicating you.


2. Study social media platforms like twitter, FB and Youtube,you can easily tell of their value proposition, the reasons why people go there. Do you know the reasons why people come here? Dont you think the things you are now banning brought people here all these while and now you have 1m+ users,what do you think a change can create.

3. In an argument in support of the theory of Creative destruction, a theory by Joseph Schumpeter.Nietzsche argued for a universal principle of a cycle of creation and destruction,every creative act has its destructive consequence.

4.These rules can create a user fatigue, BTW, hope you know FB is already experiencing that across Europe and even in Africa.

5.I as much as i sense you want to be neutral and sit on the fence, in the long run, your platform can only be left-winged or right-winged and it is not a problem.

6.A number of sites are going to be cloning you in the nearest future or even now,I want to believe you give a dam.n.Don't play into their hands. Do a thorough scenario analysis coupled with your SWOT and CSFs before you come up with such decisions.

7.Ultimately, stakeholders management is very essential at this point.Your members are not scumbags, a good number of them are elites, and great people.Respect their views.

8.I hope you pay your taxes before the authorities come calling on your door.

I have a sentimental attachment to NL and would like to see it go into the future and not eaten up. Technology is creating so much unpredictability and I know you know.

From a good heart.

kaboninc: Am really getting some business tips as it applies to today's world. Mr Seun, have you come to think of how the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, RIM, Apple, Sony and Samsung come to be what they are? I tell you if you do.....you'll be like them.

In as much as you have over a million sign-ons, you still do not have a tenth of theirs and honestly you never see behaviours. Theirs are more rational, aggressive, demanding coupled with the growth rate. Luckily the monopoly thing is in your favour.

Lastly, that rule 21 get as e be. I suggest it is modified. You own a site that targets a Nigerian society both near and far so why would or should there be a rule that affects the Nigerian lifestyle? Even Wole dey nack am too.

Very valid point. Back to the rules, I dont know why folks are so angry about no 17, you should be angry about everything. Dont know why I have a feeling that Seun is under a serious external pressure or he has sold the business but still managing it for the stakeholder and he has to do their bidding. Just watch your back, you dont have monopoly of this business and you are not an NGO. Your house is about to be deserted.

am me.:
@seun, All these rules will help pull u down in this business especially ur biased nature.

You know! am really interested in this aspect,its a critical business decision.It looks more like an emergent strategy than planned and I ll like to see his data in the next 6 months. I ve said it somewhere here before, we tend to think we have no competition and no one does it better than us. In an age of disruptive thinking, Seun would be so stunned when he wakes and realizes that someone is doing this better. There is no emotion in business, no normative thinking.It does not work in the long run.

sheyie2007: clueless, how?

Are you asking me?

Let the government grow some ball.s and send them back.

Well, this is what you get when you appear clue.less over the issues of life,
people who have no business in your life will start managing your affairs.

Na wao.

Tigerhead:

You and I know that everybody in Nigeria agrees with you, thinks like you and is going to vote like you.


Why are these losers attracted to this site. When the vampire Buhari loses, they will come here and say "let's pretend that he won". Lunatics!!! Saints preserve us.

Why are you like this and why treat statements in isolation.

I doubt if you really understood the point

Your stupidity is legendary

hmmm. this is going to be interesting.

Like govt.like your english.
For that reason.

so lets have the ones you use in your office.

In mine, we use terms like " business critical". Only God knows what that means.

Meanwhile, if you dont have any in your office, you can borrow some and go overwhelm
them.lol

Here are the 89 biggest cliches that will help you get promoted to middle management because they’ll make you sound like you know a lot about how organizations operate (along with my handy translations). When possible, you should use these in team meetings or in front of your bosses who will have a say in promoting you:

1. It’s a paradigm shift = I don’t know what’s going on in our business. But we’re not making as much money as we used to.

2. We’re data-driven = We try not to make decisions by the seat of our pants. When possible, we try to base them in facts.

3. We need to wrap our heads around this = Gosh, I never thought of that. We need to discuss that….

4. It’s a win-win = Hey, we both get something out of this (even though I’m really trying to get the best from you)

5. ROI [used in any sentence] = Look at me, I’m very financially-minded, even if I never took any finance classes in school

6. Let’s blue sky this/let’s ballpark this = Let’s shoot around a bunch of ideas since we have no clue what to do

7. I’m a bit of a visionary = I’m a bit of an egomaniac and narcissist

8. I’m a team player/we only hire team players = I hope everyone on the team thinks this is a meritocracy, even though I’m the dictator in charge


9. Let’s circle back to that/Let’s put that in the parking lot/let’s touch base on that later/let’s take this off-line = Shut up and let’s go back to what I was talking about

10. We think outside the box here/color outside the lines = We wouldn’t know about how to do something innovative if it came up to us and bit us in the behind

11. I/we/you don’t have the bandwidth = Since we cut 60% of our headcount, we’re all doing the job of 3 people, so we’re all burned out

12. This is where the rubber meets the road = Don’t screw up

13. Net net/the net of it is/when you net it out = I never studied finance or accounting but I sound like someone who can make money if I keep talking about another word for profit


14. We’ll go back and sharpen our pencils = We’ll go back and offer you the same for 20% less in hopes you’ll buy it before the end of the quarter

15. It’s like the book “Crossing the Chasm”/”Blue Ocean”/”Good To Great” / “Tipping Point” / “Outliers” = I’ve never read any of these books but I sound literate if I quote from them. And, besides, you cretins probably never read them either to call me out on it

16. Let’s right-size it = Let’s whack/fire a bunch of people

17. It’s next-gen/turn-key/plug-and-play = I want it to sound so technical that you’ll just buy it without asking me any questions

18. We need to manage the optics of this = How can we lie about this in a way people will believe?

19. This is creative destruction = I’ve never read Joseph Schumpeter but our core business is getting killed so it’s your responsibility to come up with a new product the market will buy

20. We don’t have enough boots on the ground = I don’t want to be fired for this disastrous product/country launch, so I’m going to sound tough referring to the military and say I don’t have enough resources

For more. Click

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/06/19/89-business-cliches-that-will-get-any-mba-promoted-to-middle-management-and-make-them-totally-useless/

May 2nd 2013, 14:24 by Economist.com

..A new study examines the relationship between income and well-being

THE Easterlin paradox, named for economist Richard Easterlin, reckons that higher incomes do not necessarily make people happier. Since Mr Easterlin first made his conjecture in 1974, economists' views have evolved: money matters, studies suggest, but only up to a point. Become rich enough, and a bigger paycheque no longer leads to more happiness. Yet a new NBER working paper by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both of the University of Michigan, casts doubt on this chestnut. They use a trove of data generated by Gallup, a polling firm, from its World Poll. Gallup asked respondents around the world to imagine a "satisfaction ladder" in which the top step represents a respondent's best possible life. Those being polled are then asked where on the ladder they stand (from zero to a maximum of 10), and how much they earn. Though some countries seem happier than others, people everywhere report more satisfaction as they grow richer. Even more striking, the relationship between income and happiness hardly changes as incomes rise. Moving from rich to richer seems to raise happiness just as much as moving from poor to less poor. One never really grows tired of earning more.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-chart-0?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/dc/moneybuyhappiness

I only pray we dont wake up one day and discover that this woman has sold Nigeria to
another country and disappeared. Am almost tempted to think Nigeria as a whole is
under a juju spell;the more we look the less we see.

Joyfullyme: My brother they should thank the government for mercy and go and sin no more

Which mercy, or that the government should thank them for allowing the cover up.

Stakeholders, please do something about this. I need cheering news going forward.



Nigeria is suffering from militant aggression in the north and politically inspired aggression nationwide. That is the background to the country becoming one of the worst nations in the world for deadly, unpunished violence against the press.

That sobering truth emerges in the updated "impunity index" produced by the New York-based press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

The index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population, also found soaring impunity rates in Somalia, Pakistan and Brazil.

In those countries - plus Iraq, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan and Russia - journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free.

"In countries where authorities fail to deliver justice in the killing of journalists, the result is more killings, while journalists try to survive by exercising self-censorship," said CPJ executive director Joel Simon.

"Nigeria's entry on the index suggests that violence is beginning to limit coverage of crucial issues, posing a grave threat to the country's democracy. The government must exert the necessary political will to solve these crimes."

Nigeria appears on the index — published to mark World Press Freedom Day tomorrow - for the first time. With five unsolved murders since 2009, Nigeria ranks 11th of the 12 worst countries for impunity.

It is one of two African countries on the list. The other is Somalia, where 12 journalists were murdered in 2012 despite relative calm in Mogadishu.

Deteriorating security, accompanied by a lack of justice, was also seen in Pakistan, where authorities have failed to prosecute a single suspect in the 23 journalist murders over the past decade.

In Brazil, where provincial reporters have proved especially vulnerable, the impunity rating has risen despite the government's stated commitment to justice.

Ten countries have appeared on the index every year since it was launched in 2008, highlighting the challenge of reversing entrenched impunity.

According to CPJ research, in Pakistan and the Philippines combined, at least nine witnesses and people connected to journalist murder investigations have been killed or died in suspicious circumstances in the past 10 years.

Simon said: "Governments that are committed to solving these cases must guarantee witness protection.

"A UN plan to combat deadly anti-press violence provides a pivotal opportunity for governments to take decisive steps to deliver justice."

A decade after the US-led invasion, Iraq remains the worst nation on CPJ's index, with more than 90 unresolved murders. CPJ found that journalist murders slowed there, as well as in Sri Lanka, Mexico and Afghanistan, but there are few successful prosecutions in any of these countries.

Colombia has had modest success in solving murders. Alarmingly, government and military officials are considered the leading suspects in 26% of murder cases on the index.

The index calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population. It covers the period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2012. Only nations with five or more unsolved cases are listed.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/may/02/journalist-safety-press-freedom

What are they not telling us

I want to believe the only posts you can hide as a MOD are tribal bashing, bigotry and gutter language. MODs, Please what else are you supposed to hide 'cos with all these "post has been hidden " thing you are coming across like you have been heavily compromised. Be very grateful that people come here in the very first place to read and make comments, dont take people for granted.So many businesses in history have closed down due to simple yet undemocratic decisions they made. You are tending towards a strategic drift in business.Watch it.

Please help me here. not too sure of this
Are you training on big data as a content or you are just
using the word to mean data management. 'cos they are 2 different things.
Those are not the applications used I suppose

Wow, I am enjoying this

ok

tosh_acer: I know a few people whose blood boils on the mention of GEJ's name or even has high blood pressure on reading anything positive about GEJ and his government on NairaLand, despite their bring him down attitude (worse than Boko Haram), GEJ's supporters keep appearing here daily to neutralise and counter the offensive of the so called opposition. At the mention of anything positive about GEJ, they descend on you and call them names like LAPDOGS, 40 laptop crews, bigots, etc etc. But it seems the so caled oppositions on NairaLand are running out of steam lately. So, they have more work to do, it seems.

Dont try to abuse or curse me, because I have what Yoruba's call MADARIKAN, if you abuse or curse, it hits you back pronto.

You have won, clap for yasef

nameo: good. We are getting there steadily.

PS- why is this thread still low on traffic. and why is not on the Frontpage MODS

Sir, what sort of traffic are you looking for? waterways or highway

Pls someone help me with the price of crayfish at the stock exchange.
I need half-cup for my coconut rice this sunday abeg.

This $100B again?. The money don come here again.lol. Is it not Anta and co that talked about $100B last week to invest in Nigeria.This money doesnt have worth again oo. We only hear of it.
They use it to torment us
They use it to scare us
They use it to get our pity
They use it to defraud us
Oo billion billion.
Come to thy resting place.