HACKING 101 – How to earn that raise

HACKING 101 – How to earn that raise

Understanding  the GOOD-HACKS of your job According to Robert Half’s research, 45% of employees believe they are underpaid at work. However, employers are willing to pay high-performing employees.    If you’re like many people who find working on your job difficult since you believe you work so hard for so little benefit. Keep reading because…

Getting attention in a noisy market – 5 Things we learnt from the Music Artist, Fave
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Getting attention in a noisy market – 5 Things we learnt from the Music Artist, Fave

Multi-talented and multi-genre crooner, Fave has been a sensation in the Nigerian music space and even beyond. With a growth that’s well deserved, she has not only risen in the industry, she has also grown in the hearts of her customers/listeners. Having started singing early, she began getting inspired by established artists after which she…

How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part IV)
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How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part IV)

Finally, we get to the archetypes that Pursue Connection; Lovers, Jesters and the Everyman. These are the people persons;  they seek to leave a good impression on everyone they meet, even when they can’t seem to find any objective benefit in such acts, they do them notwithstanding.   1. The Lover The Lover seeks to make…

How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part III)
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How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part III)

In the previous episodes of this series, we have explored the archetypes that provide structure and explore spirituality, where we established the personality types that seek to give value and make the world a better place and also those that tilt towards exploring self, spirituality and unravelling the ‘unknown’. In this piece, the focus is…

How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part II)
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How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part II)

If this is your first article on the series, you need to see the previous posts here.  Understanding these archetypes and how they map to our personalities as people will go a long way in helping you build an intentional and beneficial personal brand for yourself, and in this part, we are looking at the…

How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part I)
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How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – The 4 Acts (Part I)

In the first part of this series, we drew a connection between our personality traits in the DISC model and the 4 quadrants that embody 12 distinct archetypal traits; those who seek to Provide Structure, the ones that care so much to Leave a legacy, those who want to Explore Spirituality, and some others who…

How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – Defining Your Archetype
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How to Build a Successful Personal Brand – Defining Your Archetype

According to Merriam Webster, an archetype is an original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies. While the Oxford Languages dictionary defines an archetype as a very typical example of a certain person or thing. What comes to mind when they ‘see it’!     In Marketing,…

Madness or Marketing?  10 greatest advertising stunts ever pulled
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Madness or Marketing? 10 greatest advertising stunts ever pulled

Go hard or go home is the mantra that now fuels many advertising agencies. It is believed that marketing isn’t marketing if it is not done with a touch of “madness”. The industry is already saturated with agencies doing the crazy things that the old boys have always abhorred. However, it seems the old boys…

FELABRATION 2019: ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’

FELABRATION 2019: ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’

  The song ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’ released in 1986 by the great Nigerian music icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is one that can best be described as evergreen. With over 30 years of impact, its conscious lyrics on various social issues remain a didactic guide many generations later. The song title was chosen as the…