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shigoslim:
Most of bad comments here are 4rm Igbo. Whereas Amosun is 4rm south-west and his administration is more or less concern you ppl.


Oh i guess he has been pulling down the Igbo shop i see, that is why so much hatred.

Amosun will nt die and he shall live to finish his good work.

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Elmaxcentini: Yesterday saw the much anticipated launch of Apple’s iPhone 6.

With two screen sizes to choose from, Apple fans all over the world are now faced with the decision of a lifetime. Do they go for the smaller option in order to save pocket space, or do they go big with the 6 Plus and make it look like they’re carrying and iPad Mini around with them?


Well thankfully Man United fans don’t have such a difficult decision to make. That’s because it appears the iPhone 6 Plus is specifically designed to show more of the Premier League table in one go, which obviously means the Old Trafford faithful will be able to see their side’s league position without having to scroll down.



That’s if they don’t slip further down the league table, though…

maltina: And where is the source of this lie from? Abi Michael Jackson chop out of am before e die ?

learnine: Bad managers tell employees what to do, good managers explain why they need to do it, but great managers involve people in decision making and improvement."

There might be more to management to that, but I think that's a pretty good start. "Lean management," or the Toyota management system, encourages leaders to live in that "good to great" range (with apologies to Jim Collins).

Bad managers bark orders. They are directive and tell employees what to do, without any explanation or context. I saw a lot of that style of management quite often during my first two years at General Motors (read my previous post about that experience) and the workplace was incredibly dysfunctional, as a result.

There are top-down, "command and control" managers in every type of workplace, unfortunately. Managers who are controlling and have all the answers want their employees to "check their brains at the door," and often say so quite explicitly — or they spread that message in more subtle ways.

At GM, front-line employees complained that they were "hired for their backs and their arms, not their brains." In hospitals, healthcare professionals (even those with master's degrees) have complained, "They just want us to do what we're told." This is not a recipe for quality, productivity, or good customer service.

A friend of mine lives in a high-rise condo building. One example of "telling" was the general manager telling employees that the doors to the resident gym must now be kept closed at all times. For years, previously, the doors had been left open unless a resident wanted privacy and chose to close them.

My friend asked one of the employees, "Why are the doors closed all of the time now?" The employee replied, "I don't know, [the manager] just told us to."

It's disrespectful to just give directives without letting people understand the reason(s) why. There might have very well been a good reason why the doors were now to be kept closed. Had the manager taken just a few minutes to share a reason why, the employees would feel better about themselves and would more likely keep the doors closed. If employees are following directives out of a fear of being "written up," they aren't in a position to provide great service.

A good condo manager would explain why the doors now need to be closed. And, if there wasn't a good reason why, they wouldn't force the change on a whim.

A great condo manager would involve the employees in coming up with solutions to whatever problem is being solved by keeping the doors closed. The employees, when being posed with the problem, might come up with the idea of "close the doors" or they might come up with something better. Either way, they would feel a greater sense of ownership over the idea since they were involved in its creation.

During my time at GM, the better of the two plant managers I worked for taught us that Lean leaders (in the style of Toyota leaders) will always explain why something must be done, in those rare instances when they have to give a directive. The dynamic changes from "thou shalt wear safety gloves (because I'm the boss and I told you so)" to "you must wear safety gloves (because it's necessary for your safety and we don't want you to get hurt, even though you might think there is little risk)."

Bad managers tell. Good managers explain why.

Great managers go beyond this.

Great managers might engage the employees in figuring out how to reduce the safety risk that makes gloves necessary in the first place. Maybe an employee would suggest that a different, but equally effective, chemical be used. We don't know unless we engage our employees.

In 90% of workplace situations, I'd guess, the manager shouldn't be telling people what to do, even if they are making the effort to explain why. Great managers engage people in designing their work and they continue to engage them in ongoing improvement. As I learned from former Toyota employees and the books of Taiichi Ohno, work procedures "should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves."

This mindset and approach requires that leaders set aside their egos and century-old habits. of top-down management. Managers won't have all of the answers. Instead of dictating how things get done (and expecting obedience and compliance), managers need to work together with employees to define how the work is done. Managers need to ask employees what ideas they have for improving the workplace, through the practice of "Kaizen."

Our employees are adults and they deserve our respect. They deserve great leaders who can work together to help everybody succeed and do what's best for their customers (or residents).
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140911010334-81312-what-bad-managers-good-managers-and-great-managers-do

100Cents: Sycophancy as usual..

Omexonomy: Societe general bank =Heritage bank =enterprise bank = fulani awusa people bank.
Where are we going in these country? Sanusi agenda has finanly come to fruition.

pazienza: From that article, we can now see how important an international airport, no matter how sub standard it might look, is very vital to the South East. Thanks to Enugu international airport, our people in Asia can bring in investors directly to Igboland,without having to stop at anyother part of Nigeria.

Once the five SE governors and our resourceful people,come together to find a way to pull funds together and make the Obuaku seaport a reality, and getting the Enugu-PH express road in a good condition, as well as the railway connection, then we must have laid the foundation for industrial revolution in the SE and increasing the IGR of the SE.

gift01: You are right BUT the problem is Ibo men takes competition to the extreme. To a point where they leave co-operation and start antagonism. Then other tribes will be settling brotherly conflict that shouldn't be in the public

mako007: So I read on why wizkid's album might flop and I was like "Wetin concern me, I dey buy album?"

Frankly speaking the last time I bought an album was 2007, CV & The Entertainer by the defunct mo'hit all stars.

For those of us that download/transfer muiscs and movies, when last did you buy an album and whose album was it?

uihebom: so if your girlfriend see am you go curve hand inside pocket buy am for her. I wonder how my fellow guy dey bend hand inside pocket bring out N50k+ take buy fone for a girl. if I try am , make I suspend for Air. guy. you Sef think am na, even if she and native doctor use your pictures dey fan themselves for forest .

eaemmy: wait my pal,don't u have any other life aside coming to troll over discussion at nairaland ?.....gay!

Shekson: Is there any month dat is good for retrenchment? Whether Jan, feb, Apr, Jun, Sept or Dec, sack is sack. No good period to be retrenched.

brosss: Well, my friend, suck it up, hold your head high. I empathize with you. Seee, I have once had a cheating girl. It took a lot to break free from her. What was her reason, she couldn't give. I forgave her a couuple of times until the camels back broke.... She visited one afternoon, I had already made up my mind. She sat unsuspecting and I took my box guilter and played her a goodbye song. By the time I was done, she was in uncontrolled tears. It was a sponteneous song emmanating from a broken heart(wished I recorded it), seee in the song, I made her understand that I wasn't reaking her heart, I was breaking mine. I gave her one last peck on the chick and walked out. Didn't bother, I knew by the time I am back, she'd have left... Today , I am better off. And will never regret my decision.
So move on, she and ur friend can go ahead and seee how far they can go. You true girl is out there, find her and when you do, give her everything. I found mine and she is my completion...

All the best bro

Bane vs Joker: It just dawned on me how ungrateful I've been all my life. Please God forgive me.

Dual Core: I have spent just about 5 minutes on it. What are your reviews? I am not impressed (I cannot see any new functionality), the site's page load time just went up by about 10 times. Things which took about 2 seconds or less to load up in the former interface now take several seconds. In fact I refreshed nairaland about 9 times on a different browser tab while waiting for my transaction page on the internet banking site to load once.

On login I am taken to a dashboard that says nothing about the balances of my accounts, I then have to spend one more click and wait for the terrible load time before I see my account balance.

The interface is nice, catchy and more informative but sacrificing speed for looks is not the way forward, this should be fixed.


Edit:
For those saying its a network thing, have a look at the video in the link below placing GTBank's online portal side by side with Nairaland and other sites and watching them load.

http://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?id=131129_0cc4c5fde6464c572c09f255d2752ce367132c94


From the video: It took 0.9 seconds to load the first page of this thread. While it took 35 seconds for GTBank's online banking page to open. Both started loading same time.

eaemmy: seriously ,u need get a life.All I know is dat de phone is jst cool.

chineloSA: Personally, how I would treat this is, my child has to know all his father culture, language etc before mine.

Though I do not think the guy may have meant bad, but he meant it. The son is his son hence he bears his surname.

I think you overreacted, since you said the child can still learn Yoruba either way. Teach your son all his fathers culture before yours. Your son may blame you when he does not fit in, in future. Your son is not Yoruba, he is Esan.
Even with names, he has a right to deny you to give your son a Yoruba name, its his Esan son, not Yoruba son, so you were just pushing your luck.

Are you sure you are not pregnant again

lorretta u: I think that question is irrelevant

Would anyone want to be se.xually harrassed?
Your guess is as good as mine

I think the correct question should be why do men make everything in life all about sezx and their own satisfaction?
Why won't you people just let women be?
If you make advances and she says no,why not let it go?
Must you risk the ruination of her life and marriage just for your own sezual satisfaction?
Selfsih much?

If she stays home:war
If she goes out there:war

What is wrong with you people?

I went for a movie audition recently and the men there were very proud and fulfilled in telling me that there's no way for an attractive lady to make it in this present day nigeria unless she's ready to compromise
I.E sleep her way to the top.so I'd better think well before I decide if I want to succeed or not.
Same thing happened one time I was busy with a project in my PPA LGA.no guy wanted to help unless I'd lay down for him.something I was doing for the community with ny sweat and skills.yet no one can offer to help unless I was willing to part with some arss.
How many men will a woman sleep with?
Who turns around to start sceaming 'W*hore' ?isn't the men?
Do you people even have any atom of conscience? I guess not.
Always thinking with ur dycks.

iamOdino: Ary Borges, who cares for seven tigers and two lionesses, at his family’s home in Maringa, Brazil is in a legal battle with federal wildlife officials to keep his endangered animals from undergoing vasectomies and being taken away from him. While Borges does have a license to raise the animals, Brazilian wildlife officials say he illegally bred the cats, creating a public danger.

Borges also has two lions, a monkey, and a pet Chihuahau named Little inside his makeshift animal sanctuary, where man and beast alike live together in his spacious red-dirt compound, separated from the outside world by tall metal fences and high wooden walls.

MOSSAD II: He wrote while dreaming! ha ha ha ha!