Review of Conflict without casualties
CONFLICT is everywhere. Conflict at the most basic level is simply a gap between what we want and what we…
Bisi Akande: Debating past and present socio-political issues
This piece is a review of ‘My Participations’, an autobiography of former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress…
‘You can’t fight Mother Nature’: A Review of Oluwaseun’s ‘A Constellation of Cravings’
Have you been to a bar beach before? Watching the currents wade confidently, can you be so strong to push…
Review of Angela Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
If you’re looking for a single metric that measures the ability for someone to become successful in life, it might…
Review of Unapologetically Ambitious
Every business book is a behind the scenes story in some way. With CEOs, they share the story of their…
A Review of Easier Done than Said by Felix Duyilemi
If you have found yourself stuck in the rut of procrastination, always wishing but getting nothing done, then ‘Easier Done…
Review of Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Even as my glasses have gotten smaller and hopefully cooler over the years, I am still a proud member of…
A review of Shola Richards’ Go Together
Karla Strand I have a few close work colleagues—friends, really—who I go to for support, consolation, venting, and laughs.…
Review of Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Of everything a person must maintain, his mind is most important, and king of all is his connection to reality.…
Analysis of recurring motifs in Dare’s ‘Miss J Diaries’
Zaenab Dare is a writer with so much courage and style. Writing a collection of flash fictions is not as…
Think like a rocket scientist
It’s been a challenging year and one that has caused many to confront problems and to rethink or recalibrate their…
A review of The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company
There’s a lot of talk about the pipeline -- that magical conveyer belt that calls a select few up toward…
The Emperor’s Handbook
The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from 161 to 180 A.D., is considered one of the world’s foremost Stoic…
Scaling Up Excellence by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao
Simply stated, scaling is about finding pockets of excellence and building and spreading those pockets of excellence throughout an organization…
Review of Barbara Kellerman’s Bad leadership: What it is, how it happens
‘The human animal resembles the baboon,’ says Kellerman. She argues that leadership and coercion are not unrelated and that without…
Unleashed – The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You
In their book, Unleashed, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss provide a fresh and practical framework for leadership, and how great…
Review of John Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You
John Maxwell, the author of “Developing the Leader Within You,” does an outstanding job breaking down leadership. After more than…
[Book Review] Oloyede’s ‘Lagos is Killing Me’: A Telescope of Defamiliarization
The Buddhist will say that: ‘What is the sound of one hand clapping?’ This implies that one thing depends on…
Review of Michael Canic’s Ruthless Consistency
I agree with Michael Canic: “The tragedy of repeated failures is how they poison organizational culture. It becomes easy for…
Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah’s Seriya and the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism
Since its inception, the works of literature that have emanated from the African scenery have been known to be art…
