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27/10/2024

Sunday Digest!!!!

The Impacts on Our Relationships with Third Parties When We Have Low Emotional Intelligence but High Cognitive Intelligence.

In today's complex and interconnected world, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships are crucial to both personal and professional success. While cognitive intelligence (IQ) has traditionally been viewed as a strong predictor of achievement, emotional intelligence (EI) plays an equally vital role in how we engage with others, particularly third parties, such as clients, colleagues, and stakeholders. This short article explores the potential impacts on our relationships when we possess high cognitive intelligence but low emotional intelligence.

Understanding the Dichotomy:

Cognitive intelligence refers to our ability to reason, solve problems, and understand complex ideas. It encompasses analytical skills, memory, and the capacity to learn quickly. In contrast, emotional intelligence involves the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our own emotions and the emotions of others. It includes skills such as empathy, emotional regulation, and effective communication.

While high cognitive intelligence can lead to impressive problem-solving abilities and academic achievements, low emotional intelligence can create challenges in our interactions with third parties.

Impacts on Relationships:-

Communication Breakdown:

Individuals with low emotional intelligence may struggle to communicate effectively. They might come across as blunt or insensitive, failing to consider the emotional context of their messages. This can lead to misunderstandings, frustration, and conflict with third parties who feel undervalued or ignored.

Lack of Empathy:

Emotional intelligence is crucial for empathy—understanding and sharing the feelings of others. High-IQ individuals with low EI may find it difficult to relate to the perspectives and emotions of third parties, making it challenging to build rapport and trust. This lack of empathy can hinder collaboration and damage relationships.

Poor Conflict Resolution:

Conflict is inevitable in any relationship, but managing it effectively requires emotional intelligence. Those with low EI may approach conflicts analytically, focusing solely on facts and logic while neglecting the emotional aspects. This can lead to unresolved tensions and a failure to reach mutually beneficial solutions.

Inability to Navigate Social Cues:

Effective interactions often rely on the ability to read social cues and respond appropriately. Individuals with high cognitive intelligence but low emotional intelligence may miss subtle signals, leading to awkward or inappropriate responses. This can create discomfort and distance in relationships with third parties.

Decreased Collaboration:

In team settings, emotional intelligence fosters collaboration and cohesion. Low EI can result in a competitive or isolating dynamic, as individuals may prioritize their intellectual contributions over team synergy. This can hinder collective problem-solving efforts and diminish overall productivity.

Impact on Leadership:

Leaders with high cognitive intelligence but low emotional intelligence may struggle to inspire and motivate their teams. Without the ability to connect emotionally, they may fail to engage their employees, leading to dissatisfaction and high turnover rates. This can adversely affect relationships with both team members and clients.

Reputation and Trust Issues:

Relationships with third parties are often built on trust. Individuals who lack emotional intelligence may develop a reputation for being aloof or unapproachable, making it difficult to establish lasting connections. This can harm professional networks and limit opportunities for collaboration.

In summary,

While high cognitive intelligence is undoubtedly valuable, it is essential to recognize the critical role of emotional intelligence in fostering healthy and productive relationships with third parties. Individuals who prioritize developing their emotional intelligence can enhance their communication, empathy, and conflict resolution skills, ultimately leading to stronger, more meaningful connections. In a world that increasingly values collaboration and interpersonal dynamics, balancing cognitive and emotional intelligence may be the key to personal and professional success.

29/07/2024

```Think Outside the Box


Moment of thinking… These are few questions asked in HR interview! The answers are really stunning and inspiring. Thinking out of the box! A must read…

Question 1:

You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night, it’s raining heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for a bus:

* An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.

* An old friend who once saved your life.

* The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing very well that there could only be one passenger in your car?

This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.

He simply answered:




“I would give the car keys to my Old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.”

Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought limitations. Never forget to “Think Outside of the Box.”

Question 2:

What will you do if I run away with your sister?

The candidate who was selected answered ” I will not get a better match for my sister than you sir”

Question 3:

Interviewer (to a student girl candidate) – What if one morning you woke up & found that you were pregnant.

Girl – I will be very excited and take an off, to celebrate with my husband.

Normally an unmarried girl will be shocked to hear this, but she managed it well. Why should I think it in the wrong way, she said later when asked.

Question 4:

Interviewer: He ordered a cup of coffee for the candidate. Coffee arrived kept before the candidate, then he asked what is before you?

Candidate: Instantly replied “Tea”

He got selected.

You know how and why did he say “TEA” when he knows very well that coffee was kept before.

(Answer: The question was “What is before you (U – alphabet) Reply was “TEA” ( T – alphabet)

Alphabet “T” was before Alphabet “U”

Question5;

Interviewer said “I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question.

Think well before you make up your mind!” The boy thought for a while and said, “my choice is one really difficult question.”

“Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. “What comes first, Day or Night?”

The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, “It’s the DAY sir!”

“How” the interviewer asked,

“Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!”

Sometimes, all it takes to get to your desired destination in life is to think outside the box. Goodnight folks!!!

08/12/2023

****DANGER OF GRADUATES THAT DON'T THINK BEYOND THEIR CERTIFICATE****

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education” — Albert Einstein

The greatest form of disability in life is not knowing your ability. Your winning edge in life is not the degree you have acquired or the certificate you possessed, but your ability to solve problems.

Whenever I interview graduates, I am not so keen on their qualifications; I am only keen on their special skills, experiences and their unique approach to problem-solving. Most of them cannot even apply the knowledge they have acquired in school to solving life problems. The 21st Century employer doesn’t necessarily pay you a salary for the certificate you possess, but for the problems you can solve.

The reality of life is that there are more employable graduates than the available jobs, and it is only graduates that can actually think beyond their certificate that would eventually find their own place in life. Mark Twain said: “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” The proof of going to school is your certificate, but the proof of your education is in your ability to solve problems through innovation and creativity.

Graduates that cannot solve problems are liabilities. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree; it is about widening your knowledge, thinking creatively and absorbing the truth about life. We must see our education beyond our certificates. Many people spend their precious years in school only to end up acquiring certificate, not education. Einstein said: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Have you ever heard of the creativity term, ‘think outside the box?’

One of the major reasons why most graduates are poor is because they cannot see and think beyond their certificates. I have seen engineering graduates work as bankers. I have seen medical doctors with great skills in web and graphic designs. I have seen lawyers that are very dexterous with finances. The list is endless!

The basic truth of life is that the skills needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. Your certificate is just proof that you are teachable; it does not suggest what you are totally capable of doing. You are full of possibilities when you think beyond your degrees and certificates.

If you remove your certificate from the picture, what are those things you can do effortlessly so well? You would definitely need the knowledge you have acquired in school, but they must not define your limitations. Don’t allow your certificate to put a limit on what you are capable of doing. Your education goes beyond acquiring certificate; it is your ability to solve problems. While schooling leads to confinement, education is an adventure. While schooling makes us learn through rules and facts, education makes us learn through exposure.

I have seen many graduates being successful in areas that have nothing to do with their course of study.

30/11/2023

This story below will teach you what regular Schools will not teach about Entrepreneurship:

Most Stanford students fail this challenge. Here's what we can learn from their mistakes.

You’re a student in a Stanford class on entrepreneurship.

Your professor walks into the room, breaks the class into different teams, and gives each team five dollars in funding. Your goal is to make as much money as possible within two hours and then give a three-minute presentation to the class about what you achieved.

If you’re a student in the class, what would you do?

Typical answers range from using the five dollars to buy start-up materials for a makeshift car wash or lemonade stand, to buying a lottery ticket or putting the five dollars on red at the roulette table.

But the teams that follow these typical paths tend to bring up the rear in the class.

The teams that make the most money don’t use the five dollars at all. They realize the five dollars is a distracting, and essentially worthless, resource.

So they ignore it. Instead, they go back to first principles and start from scratch. They reframe the problem more broadly as “What can we do to make money if we start with absolutely nothing?” One particularly successful team ended up making reservations at popular local restaurants and then selling the reservation times to those who wanted to skip the wait. These students generated an impressive few hundred dollars in just two hours.

But the team that made the most money approached the problem differently. They realized that both the $5 funding and the 2-hour period weren’t the most valuable assets at their disposal. Rather, the most valuable resource was the three-minute presentation time they had in front of a captivated Stanford class. They sold their three-minute slot to a company interested in recruiting Stanford students and walked away with $650.

The five-dollar challenge illustrates the difference between tactics and strategy. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, they refer to different concepts. A strategy is a plan for achieving an objective. Tactics, in contrast, are the actions you undertake to implement the strategy.

The Stanford students who bombed the $5 challenge fixated on a tactic—how to use the five dollars—and lost sight of the strategy. If we focus too closely on the tactic, we become dependent on it. “Tactics without strategy,” as Sun Tzu wrote in the Art of War, “are the noise before defeat.”

Just because a $5 bill is sitting in front of you doesn’t mean it’s the right tool for the job. Tools, as Neil Gaiman reminds us, “can be the subtlest of traps.” When we’re blinded by tools, we stop seeing other possibilities in the peripheries. It’s only when you zoom out and determine the broader strategy that you can walk away from a flawed tactic.

What is the $5 tactic in your own life? How can you ignore it and find the 2-hour window? Or even better, how do you find the most valuable three minutes in your arsenal?

Once you move from the “what” to the “why”—once you frame the problem broadly in terms of what you’re trying to do instead of your favored solution—you’ll discover other possibilities lurking in plain sight.
(Tale By Moonlight)

24/06/2023

WHY BUILDING AND SELLING IS BETTER THAN BUILDING AND RENTING

My guy who lives abroad invested over 100 million naira building a rental property in Anambra.

After collecting the first year rent, he did a little hood maths and realised it would take him over 20 years to realise his capital and not to talk about profits.

The funny thing is that about 30 percent of that money will go into maintenance and 20 go to court case because some tenants will surely drag you to court or you drag them to court.

So you end up losing 50 percent of your ROI in miscellaneous.

In the other hand, one of my bosses built 6 units 3 bedroom terrace apartment in Abuja. It cost him 200 million.

He sold each units 65 million each unit. So the 6 units gave him N390,000,000.

He made a profit of 190,000,000 within a year after selling the 6 units.

If I can invest and make my Profit within a year why wait for 20 years to make same profit?

Unfortunately the building will be outdated and start losing value after lasting for many years.

Case study is 4 storey buildings built in Onitsha 20 years ago by Igbo billionaires. Can you live in such buildings today? How much is their rent today?

If you build a tenant house, it is good. But you're storing money you might not be alive or healthy to enjoy. You become rich at old age when you're struggling with diabetes or stroke.

It only pays you at old age or your children enjoys it. This is not business. It is investment.

That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Business is cashflow and cashflow is King.

Again, business is cashflow and cashflow is king.

I would rather build and sell and make money immediately with profit than wait for 20 years before making only my capital.

Remember, Cashflow is King. What did you learn from this?

— Nelson Nwamara

25/04/2023

Elon Musk is warning that AI could alter the world the way we know it now. Can you imagine an Artificial Intelligence robotic Lawyer representing you before a judge in court? It’s knowledge of case law will be limitless and 99.99% accurate.

With Artificial Intelligence Robotic Attorneys, we really may not need humans going to law school, the profession may become obsolete.

What about an Artificial Intelligence robotic medical doctor? Do you know it’s ability to diagnose illness and prescribe medication will be more accurate than human medical doctors?

In the future we may not need humans as lawyers or medical doctors.

I just watched an Artificial Intelligence robotic medical doctor attending to a patient on Fox News this morning.

Just imagine programmed artificial intelligence army sent to Sambisa to confront Boko haram. Technology may be the solution to the worlds problems.

Sometimes it is scary to think of how the world will be another fifty years. (Prince will Odidi)

13/02/2023

Artificial Intelligence is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

Using Artificial Intelligence cars will drive without drivers, so drivers will no more be needed

Banks will function without human managers and tellers,

factories will produce without human workers,

planes will fly without pilots,

at a point, with meta verse, you really do not need to travel from point A to B, all you need to do is to put on meta verse and you meet and conduct business without physically traveling. It looks like witchcraft, but that’s the direction the world is heading.

Sometimes I just wonder what the world will be another 50 years.

Restaurants will not not need servers because robots will do a better job.

Robots will clean, cook, make menus, and serve to perfection better than humans.

Marraige may no more be necessary. Robots that are programmed will start showing emotions.

What about human reproduction? In a few years from now, human cloning will be at its peak, you do not need to have s*x to make babies,

with new science technology and artificial intelligence, baby’s can be created with super human intelligence without couples having s*x.

Movies will need no actors because virtual reality and meta verse will dominate media and communication .

The world is changing, how prepared is Africa?

Machine and computers will end up doing everything man does today. From cooking, to cleaning, to washing, to driving, to answering phone calls, you can even have robots programmed with artificial intelligence as house maids and cleaners.

This is where the world is heading to. How prepared is Africa?

It is important we invest in education and knowledge in Africa.

It is important we allow those who can fix our continent run its affairs.

Making the wrong leadership decisions today may mean being lost to time space and history.

The world is not waiting for us, it is either we catch up and get it right or we are left behind.

Artificial intelligence is taking over the world!
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31/10/2022

One day, a man decided to travel by ship with his friends. While in the middle of their journey, the boat began to sink. Everyone tried to escape by swimming but it was all in vain. All drowned except this man who succeeded in clinging to a floating object. With the effect of strong winds, the object took him very far, to a small island where there were no men or animals, just a few insects. With the sweat of his brow, he managed to build a small box entirely made of straw. He stayed there for several days eating fruits and began to get used to his new life of suffering (even if he did not get used to it). He eventually began to lose all hope of seeing his family again any day.
Every night he lit a fire in front of his house to warm himself. One evening, as usual, he lit the fire. He stayed there for a long time until he dozed off. Late in the night, he was awakened by an overwhelming heat: It was his straw hut that caught fire. He cried, accusing and blaming God, shouting, "Oh God, what have I done to you to hurt me so? You separated me from my family to bring me to this deserted island, then you killed all my friends and now you let my hut burn. Why are you so hard on me? It is better to die because I am tired of living in this suffering!"
But at dawn, he saw a small boat coming towards him. When the boat landed, he ran straight for the captain and said to him in astonishment, "Captain, how did you get here?" No boat can get there unless he gets lost. " The captain replied, "In the night we saw a fire and we thought it was a burning boat, and we did not arrive immediately because the journey was long. We thought that you used the fire in order for us to find you. "The man cried, fell on his knees and asked God for forgiveness, and he got into the boat and went home and reunited with his family.

LESSON: God has many ways of solving our problems. You can lose a job and think that God has left you when He wants to give you a better job. Your friends can leave you, do not believe that the LORD has rejected you, He wants to keep you away from bad companies. Do not curse your God even if you suffer, keep faith and hope, He will act.
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12/09/2022

The Four Major Competencies Of An Effective Leader:

1. Management of attention, which is the ability of the leaders to attract and win the attention of others through their vision of, and strong commitment to, organisational objectives.
2. Management of meaning, which entails a strong communication ability through which a leader sells his or her vision and ideas to the followers.
3. Management of trust, which connotes the ability of the leaders to generate trust from their followers and manage it well.
4. Lastly, Management of self which connotes a very strong self structure and an appropriate apprehension about, or fear of failure.

From the above perspectives, one way of differentiating between leaders and non-leaders is the relative strength or weakness of their notion of self identity and self structure.

Leaders are imbued with definite approach to issues, exhibit self-confidence, and are not easily influenced by outside pressures.

From the above analogy, who among the three leading Presidential candidates fit into the description?

Have a productive week!!!

09/09/2022



Leadership Vs Management

Like the two sides of a coin, leadership and management are somewhat inseparable if effectiveness and efficiency is the goal. Both positions are not the same, they simply have a meeting ground. They are as inseparable as they are connected

When I was a child, my mother would deliberately be harsh on us because she knew that once our father got in the picture, he will unleash mercy. For her, that was the best way to raise children, a firm mum and a friendly dad. I think it worked. This is akin to leadership and management, which do you think is management?

I will further liken both leadership and management to giving and receiving. I know some people are always at the receiving end, their excuses are always framed in the line “I don’t have hence I cannot give”. Poor folks, if only they know that they are cheating themselves. Giving and receiving must always go hand in hand just like the left and right eyes. A person sees broadly when both eyes are functional.

Come to think of it, how can anyone’s life be complete if the person is continuously on one side? It is said that if you pick up a side of a stick, you’ve picked the other side.

Let me give a quick definition of both words.

According to Peter F Drucker, Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Management is the process of controlling resources and people while leadership is influencing people to willingly do what needs to be done. Management functions are summed up in the acronym PODSCORB – planning, organizing, directing, staffing, coordinating and budgeting. Leadership functions aren’t quite as clear as those of management. They are more spontaneous than structural.

Both are important in every organization. One is transitional, and the other is transformational. One is work-oriented, and the other is people-focused. One raises followers, the other has loads of subordinates who are happy with being bossed around and given some level of delegation. One creates value and the other rather counts values. One is vision and strategy minded, the other sleeps on policies and procedures.

With all their difference, they have the same endpoint of achieving organizational goals, explaining the organizational vision and mobilizing resources.

Leadership is more efficient when balanced with the processes and procedures of management. Likewise, management is more productive when given the human face which is the empathy that leadership invokes.

Which have you been running with as an orgnisational figurehead, leadership or management? You are best being both, developing both skills and using the skills as needed. Experience tells me that leadership skills are more needed in today’s world, especially in our clime.

Which do you think our future president should be more skilled at, leadership or management?

Here’s wishing you an awesome weekend filled with greatness and happiness, to your success and mine 🥂


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01/05/2022

Transition from Yesterday to Tomorrow ! From Past to Future !!

Book gets new edition, Car gets new brand, Computer gets new model, Fashion gets new style, Software gets new version & Apps get new update.

You of yesterday may need to download new 'life update' today in order to be relevant tomorrow.

The time for you to aspire further has come.

Your past major achievements may be overtaken by events over time and become irrelevant in the future.

It is high time to turn your 'Benchmark' to 'Baseline'.

Set new goals and new targets with positive attitude and success mentally.

Your generation is waiting for your new model, new version, new edition and your new update.

No! It is not yet time for you to relax or rest.

Your world is waiting to see a new, improved and better you.

See you at the top.

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