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You can now send reminders 📝, inspiration ☁️, and everything in between to yourself in one easy-to-find place synced across all your devices. pic.twitter.com/4dahlgXysi

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Everybody's talking about Personal Development

I like the way these people broke it down though:

Very nice and simple tips for personal growth (CLICK)

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Yeah, artists are leaders too

MOOD after the #ALA10 decennial weekend.

Recharged and ready to do our part as young African Entrepreneurs! pic.twitter.com/7Vr0sXz044

— Thiofhi (@thiofhilambani) February 24, 2018

During national budget Finance Minister @mgigaba quoted @kendricklamar. At @ALAcademy decennial @FredSwaniker quoted @notoriousbig
When leaders can quote artists, it only brings then closer to the youth and it can only contribute to better communication with them#Africa

— Bah-Pna Dahane (@bahpnad) February 25, 2018

If we want a future of prosperity for all, we need to keep our compass pointing toward “true North”, in the direction of authentic values.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) February 26, 2018

"When given the choice between being right or being kind, chose kind"

— SDC-RõNIN (@kingluu) February 26, 2018

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Hey, @PulseNigeria247 is hiring in the ff'ng positions:

- Snr. Reporter - Business & Tech
- Reporter - Sex Lifestyle & Erotica
- Reporter - Money & Personal Finance
- Snr. Reporter - Music

Mail me [osagie@pulse.ng] with a cover letter, detailing why you'd love to work with us.

— Osagie Alonge (@OsaGz) February 20, 2018

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Nothing seems to make sense anymore...

If you are an artist & you retweet every compliment you get...you seriously look like a douche!

— TYCOON (@TYCOONBEATS) October 29, 2012

five years ago

we're all douches now https://t.co/T1TBF2Gv4W

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) July 25, 2017

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dear self righteous folks who use twitter as a soap box: grammatical accuracy is imperative if you want to be taken seriously. thanks - mgmt

— Bridget Kelly (@IamBridgetKelly) December 16, 2011

@POTUS

that's @realdonaldtrump the president of the united states of america loooool hahaha https://t.co/BWZVoCWqbB

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) July 25, 2017

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Judging by everybody instagram everyone's rich and ballin and can afford everything

— lil duval (@lilduval) July 6, 2012

yup! https://t.co/1ifj8Axgow

— REALbubbler (@realbubbler) July 25, 2017

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Who else is playing the game? 

Linda Ikeji went through a lot

A lot of needless hardship.

It's a long story, juicy, inspirational, ...

 and I hope it makes you say, on behalf of struggling people all over Africa and the world: 

* NEVER AGAIN *

Please read:
What inspired 'I'd Rather Be Self Made'...the day I was picked up by Special Fraud Unit...:-), at LindaIkeji's blog
"Before I became the popular blogger that I am today, I was a struggling entrepreneur. I started my modeling career in 1998 before I turned 18 and started my company Blackdove Communications in 2004 when I was just 23+. Blackdove was a modeling agency/events company and I operated from a 2-room office in Jibowu, Yaba for almost three years.

In 2006, I decided to try something that I'd always wanted to do - become a magazine publisher... [MORE]"

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Money and anxiety - Real talk about fear, work, love, and motivation.

How many people feel this way?  Maybe I am the opposite...
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Astrology - Work Compatibility

Do you make an outstanding team or will working together be a real pain?   Check out your compatibility with partners, colleagues, and other work associates.

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Congratulations if you're a match made in heaven, and if you're not, drop a comment on what you're going to do about it.  This is fun!

 "Help. I don't even know my sign!" (click)

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Modern Leadership

10 Reasons Why Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Is What A Modern Leader Should Be, written by Maya Ammar for scoopempire.

Every now and then comes a man that changes the face of a certain industry, think Steve Jobs in technology and Mohamed Ali in fighting. However, not every so often comes a man who changes the face of true leadership.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of its star emirate, Dubai, is the man to look up to. Here is why we think every modern leader should follow Sheikh Mohammed’s footsteps: 

1. He shaped Dubai

What Dubai is now is the result of the relentless effort of hundreds of thousands people, but let’s face it, Sheikh Mohammed is who set the whole thing in motion. From Dubai Media City and Dubai International Finance Center to the Palm Islands and Burj Khalifa, he oversaw countless projects that has put Dubai on the map of leading cities in the world. Nobody can deny that Dubai would be nowhere where it is right now if it weren’t for this man. 

2. He believes in the power of the young

It’s a concept we much lack and need in other Middle Eastern countries. If you consider his team and Dubai’s governmental employees, you will find that they are mostly made up of young men and women. Sheikh Mohammed believes in the fresh ideas and impalpable energy that you can only find in the youth. 

3. He’s always aiming to be number one

“I want Dubai to be number one, not in the region, but in the world. Number one in everything: high education, health, housing. [I want to] Give my people the highest way of living.”
To Sheikh Mohammed, there is only one way Dubai can go, and that is the way to being the number one city in the world.

4. He shows appreciation

In every occasion and in every speech he makes, he never fails to show true and deep appreciation to each and every one of his team and employees. He always reminds them how big of a contribution they are making to Dubai’s development on every level. 

5. He has zero tolerance for corruption

From the famous 2001 arrest incidence of the head of Dubai Customs back then, Obaid Saqr bin-Busit, to many other arrests of high profile officials, Sheikh Mohammed has always shown that when it comes to corruption, no one is above the law.

6. He knows how to use social media

He is one of the most active world leaders on social media. And instead of hiring someone to manage his social media for him, Sheikh Mohammed takes to personally posting on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

7. He has time for his hobbies

You would think that with his relentless efforts to make Dubai rise even higher that he has no time for practicing anything in his free time. However, the ruler of Dubai is an avid equestrian, winning the FEI World Endurance Championship in 2012, and a recognized poet in Arabic.

8. He’s a visionary

Looking ahead is not easy when you’re leading an entire nation, but Sheikh Mohammed makes it seems like an easy task. He’s already selling the future, making plans for not just the next year, but the next decade to ensure the brightest future for the UAE.

9.  He gives back

From launching campaigns to provide the less privileged with a chance of education to providing treatment and health services for the visually impaired, Sheikh Mohammed has launched and funded many charities and organizations.
He also uses his accounts to raise awareness for great causes, most recent of which is the UAE Compassion campaign for winter relief of Syrian refugees.

10. He places high value on the environment

The UAE’s record breaking and rising to fame didn’t stop Sheikh Mohamed from focusing on the environment. Burj Khalifa’s ‘green’ initiative, the landscaping is irrigated using a unique condensate collection system. Water from the tower’s cooling equipment is recovered, providing an estimated 15 million gallons of water a year, enough to fill 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools and this water is used to irrigate the 11-hectare green oasis that surrounds the foot of the tower.

 The Author,

Maya Ammar

She is passionate about life, with a severe case of wanderlust. She’s an avid sitcom watcher. Her life’s theme song is Barbra Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade”.

 

 I loved this feature so much, I copied and pasted the whole thing.  
I would add this to what 'MODERN' Leadership means to me: Feminine, in touch with its feminine side, inclusive of female representation.  That's all.  :)
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All about solutions...The Smallholder Foundation and Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu

NI: We at the SmallHolders Foundation believe that education is critical – education is development for us. Education opens the mind and motivates the quest for results. We believe that an educated person will make a better choice, more than an uneducated person. In that case we looked at the whole chain and we saw that one of the things that kept farmers trapped in poverty was the inefficient agricultural extension services. Agricultural extension services should be a tool that organizations and government agencies can use to educate farmers about new techniques, new crop varieties, new livestock, how to control crop and livestock diseases. But this critical service does not exist anymore. 

So we decided that we have to establish a radio station. In 2007, we established a smallholder farmer’s rural radio. Today the radio station designs and broadcasts agriculture environment and market information to 250.000 small farmer listeners, in the local Ibo language, 10 hours a day. It teaches them how, when and where to cultivate and for whom there are cultivating; how to rear livestock properly and at the same time the market to sell livestock. For example, we taught them how to gather rainwater during the abundant rainy season to use for vegetable gardening in the dry season.

The radio station is also educating farmers how to open bank accounts, the need for accurate record keeping and how they can check their input and their output. I believe that by the time a farmer decides to cultivate maize, he should make a simple budget, Every morning the radio station gives farmers commodity prices from eighteen regional markets so they decide which market to go to.

I think we are better because so many of the organizations have not been able to attract knowledge from farmers themselves. Farmers have knowledge. Farmers know the environment more than those organizations. Farmers know where it hurts most, why there are not increasing their agricultural yield year after year. What farmer A is doing can also be applicable to farmer B, C and D. Several organizations design projects for farmers; they don’t allow farmers to design projects for themselves. For a very long time that has been the norm within the government and civil society sector in designing agricultural projects and I think that has to stop. I’m a farmer myself. I know how difficult it is to get an agricultural loan. Because so many loans out there, even the ones given by microcredit funds, are not designed for agriculture. Why? Because agriculture is high risk.  We can’t even control the weather. There could be flooding tomorrow; the whole harvest can be lost for the year. That is why no loan is specifically made for farmers.

Read the full BMW Foundation interview with Nnaemeka, founder and executive director of the Smallholder Foundation here.  In 2011, he was named Young Person of the Year at the Future Nigeria Awards.