BLACK COCKTALE : January 2015

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Since we can't all be like Warren Buffett — who famously spends much of his day reading — Business Insider has summarized 50 of the most influential business books ever written.

Below, you'll find nuggets of insight from game-changing executives, hard-charging startup founders, and ground-breaking researchers.

It's also a great reading list

checkout these one line sentences and their download links on http://www.businessinsider.com/famous-business-book-summaries-2015-1#ixzz3PrAxb6YQ

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50 most power business books. www.blackcokctale.com

Here are the links you need to get reading each one:

• "Give and Take" by Adam Grant
• "Positioning" by Al Ries and Jack Trout
• "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
• "Decisive" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• "Getting Things Done" by David Allen
• "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport
• "Emotional Intelligence" by Dan Goleman
• "My Years With General Motors" by Alfred Sloan
• "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
• "The Progress Principle" by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
• "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
• "Quiet" by Susan Cain
• "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen
• "Influence" by Robert Cialdini
• "Good to Great" by Jim Collins
• "The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker
• "Rework" by Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
• "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
• "Purple Cow" by Seth Godin
• "Drive" by Daniel Pink
• "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries
• "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg
• "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver
• "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb
• "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick Brooks• "Capital" by Thomas Piketty• "Mindset" by Carol Dweck• "StrengthsFinder 2.0" by Tom Rath• "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene• "Thinking, Fast And Slow" by Daniel Kahneman• "#Girlboss" by Sophia Amoruso• "Start With Why" by Simon Sinek• "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull • "Crossing the Unkown Sea" by David Whyte• "Make It Stick" by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel• "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz• "Hooked" by Nir Eyal• "How Google Works" by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg• "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel• "Daring Greatly" by Brené Brown• "The End of Power" by Moisés Naím• "Real Happiness at Work" by Sharon Salzberg• "Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher• "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Tim Ferriss• "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni• "Business Adventures" by John Brooks• "The Virgin Way" by Richard Branson• "Growth Hacker Marketing" by Ryan Holiday• "Smartcuts" by Shane Snow• "Scarcity" by Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir

This New Year saw the beginning of a paradigm shift in the African entrepreneurship landscape as the Tony Elumelu Foundation on the 1^st of January, launched the application portal for its flagship One Hundred Million US Dollar programme – The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) – and began receiving applications from aspiring entrepreneurs across Africa.

THE APPLICATIONS ROLL IN

#AfricanEntrepreneurs from 51 countries have applied for TEEP the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme

The online application portal has been live for merely two weeks and has seen record response from entrepreneurs across the continent who want to be, as the founder Mr Tony O. Elumelu aptly stated in his New Year’s call to action “the next African Steve Jobs”. To date there have been approximately 4,000 applications from 51 African countries, and thousands more are expected before closure in March.

#AfricanEntrepreneurs sectors for TEEP the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme

TEEP is also ‘industry agnostic’ and has few limitations of the types of businesses and ideas applicants can apply with. Agriculture is leading applications, followed closely by education and training, retail and media sectors.

The online application portal also has a forum on which entrepreneurs and applicants to the programme have begun to engage with one another, helping each other with applications and moulding business ideas. TEEP has brought together strangers from across Africa and made them kin.

A CALL FOR FEMALE APPLICANTS

FEMALE #AFRICANENTREPRENUERS apply for TEEP the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme

TEEP is faced with the task of mobilising female African entrepreneurs, as nearly 75% of all applications received to date are made by men. This exemplifies the critical need for women to take a more deliberate approach to entrepreneurship and business development. TEEP began a social media campaign, calling on stakeholders for female-run enterprise in Africa to amass more applications from women in their networks.

Copied form The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme blog.

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I had the opportunity to sit down with Marketing Genius, Investor and Multi-Millionaire Gary Vaynerchuk in New York to discuss Entrepreneurship and what it really takes to achieve wild success, on-and-offline.
Gary managed to take his company from $3 Million – $60 Million in the space of a few years through hustle, keynote deliveries, internet stardom and an insatiable desire to succeed.
Gary’s book “Crush It!” was the first book I ever read that inspired me to chase my dreams online. So sitting in the same room, one-on-one with Gary, a few years later was an opportunity of a lifetime.
The video interview is here: Gary Vaynerchuk Success Advice
Checkout this very informative podcast recording from the couch side conversation between Joel & Gary Vee!

1. There Are No Shortcuts

People think that there is some sort of quick move, some algorithm or quick hack you can pull off to reach success, when there are really no shortcuts.

“The biggest “Aha moment” has been the last 20 years of my career. My company VaynerMedia has gone from 25 – 280 people in the last 2 years and that’s a lot of growth, but it took 17 years of knowing about business that helped me speed the process up. It’s the learnings, it’s the grey hairs mate! and I think people don’t realise how much more time it takes than they think.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

2. Be Real With Yourself

You need to truly understand what you are getting into. Why do you wan’t to be an entrepreneur? What would it mean for you to open up a business? Is it going to take a lot more than just “you” to make it happen? and if “no”, then are you willing to share the credit?

“First of all I think there is a huge naivety. There’s way too many people that think they can just be an entrepreneur because it’s trendy.
There are a lot of Fakepreneurs out there. There are a lot of people who are great students, they come from wealthy families, have never hustled a day in their life, they think just because they are graduating from Yale that they should be a startup entrepreneur like Zuck’s was from Harvard and that’s not real.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

3. Don’t Try And Be Something You’re Not

Understand your strengths and weaknesses and don’t try to go against them.
Know that you are here on this earth for a limited time and there is no point wasting it trying to become a master in an area that does not come natural to you. Save that for someone else that already has it in them.

“The Lack of Self Awareness is the biggest issue. I’d love to be the quarterback of the New York Jets, but it’s just not going to happen. Every entrepreneur has strengths and weaknesses. You can’t be great at everything, so self awareness matters.
Too many people are trying to do everything and they need to realise there are strengths and weaknesses and they need to focus on their strengths.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

4. Define Your Success

Everyone’s definition of success is different. One thing you need to know is that you will never achieve success if you don’t have a solid understanding of why you are doing it.
What is your WHY? Work it out, have a for sure understanding of what you are chasing, what is the ultimate outcome for you at the end of the day.

Gary’s definition of Success:

“Pure business wise, I want to buy the New York Jets, that’s my multi-billion dollar ambition, so success has always been predicated on how close I am to doing that. The flip side is, that’s just the black and white.
The grey, the real stuff, the emotional stuff is:
How many jobs am I creating?
How many relationships am I making?
Am I having more fun? Less fun?
I love the notoriety, I don’t mind it, I live for the famous fun, I’m not embarrassed to say “I Like it”. It works for me because I like people, and so anything that takes away a barrier of meeting new people is awesome for me.
So my true definition of success is doing what I want to be doing at all times.” - Gary Vaynerchuk

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1. The Gambia has only one university.

2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only
spanish speaking country.

3. South Africa is the most visited
African country.

4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa.

5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011.

6. A person from Botswana is called
a Motswana, the plural is Batswana.
7. A person from Lesotho is called a
Mosotho.

8. A person from Niger is called a
Nigerien.

8. A person from Burkina Faso is called a Burkinabe.

9. Nigeria has won more football
cups than England.

10. Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the world’s most educated President with 7 degrees, two of them are Masters.

11. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest club in Africa.

12. Didier Drogba is Chelsea’s
highest goalscorer in European competition.

13. Johannesburg, South Africa is
the most visited city in Africa.

14. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play
for Àlgeria, but the selector rejected him, saying they are already many players like him in the team.

15. President Jacob Zuma was given a special award by Fifa for refereeing on Robben Island during his years as a political prisoner.

16. President Robert Mugabe was
jailed for 11 years for fighting for freedom.

17. President Robert Mugabe is
Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.

18. The Seychelles are the most educated Africans. Seychelles’ literacy rates (Adult: 92%, Youth: 99%) Zimbabwe is 2nd (Adult:
91.2%,Youth: 99%).

19. Rwanda is a better country for
gender equality than England and USA.

20. Somalia got its first ATM on
October 7, 2014.

21. South Africa has the most Grammy award winners in Africa.

22. Ethiopia has the most airports in
Africa.

23. Ethiopia’s economy is growing
faster than China’s.

24. Eritrea’s President, Isaias Afwerki is the least richest President in Africa.

25. Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest
independent country, it has existed for over 3,000 years without
being colonised.

26. Haile Selassie 1 was the 225th
and last Emperor of Ethiopia.

27. Nigeria has the most monarchs
in the world.

28. Angola has more Portuguese
speakers than Portugal.

29. President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has ruled Angola since 1979.

30. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is Africa’s longest serving Head of State. He has ruled Equatorial Guinea since August 3, 1979 when he overthrew his uncle, Francisco Nguema. His son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is his Vice President and will succeed him if he
resigns. He started ruling Dos Santo

31. George Weah of Liberia is the
first man to win World, European and African footballer of the year
in the same year.

32. Swaziland is the only remaining
absolute mornach in the world.

33. The Gambia is the smallest country in Africa followed by Swaziland.

34. King Sobhuza ll of Swaziland took the longest time in reigning Swaziland, 62 years as he was crowned in 1921 and died in August 1982 at the age of 83 years.

34.1. King Sobhuza II of swaziland, married 70 wives, who gave him 210 children between 1920 and 1970.

35. Zimbabwe is the only country in the world were almost everyone was a billionaire at one point

a suicide bomb blast at a crowded market in northeastern Nigeria that killed at least 16 people was set off by a girl believed to be about 10 years old.

A police officer told Reuters news agency that "explosive devices were wrapped around her body."

A witness to the explosion in Maiduguri Saturday told the French news agency the blast happened as the girl was being searched at the entrance to the market. He said he doubted if "she knew what was strapped to her body," adding that he was "pretty sure" the bomb was remotely controlled. About 20 people were wounded by the blast. There is no direct claims for responsibility yet by bokoharam

Leaving university with no real career plans?

If you’re one of those students who focused on finishing your finals, rather than planning your future, our top ten tips should give you some ideas of how to start.

Let’s be clear about one thing: “You mustn't put too much pressure on yourself about the first move you make after you graduate,” says Carl Gilleard, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR). “A career isn't necessarily about the first thing you do. That’s an important step, but it is just that – only a step, in the fast-moving, ever changing world of work.” There are really good opportunities for graduates out there although there are common misconceptions that graduates are easy to recruit, but actually they’re really hard to reach – especially for SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises].

These tips are useful for either 1st class grade or The Pass grade.

Build Your CV:

This is one very important thing most graduate often miss out. It is essential that you build your CV as you journey through school. Always update your CV. If you need help; talk to experts (me). Your CV is your Unique Selling Point so HYPE YOURSELF but don't LIE

Get updated with relevant I.T skills;

If your IT skills aren’t as good as they should be, get learning! Learn new stuffs. Youtube for example is one very useful tool, or online classes for example, you can enroll on a short course. There’s a range of things you can do to improve your CV and gain insights into new areas of work. Use your time to good effect

Volunteer as an Intern at relevant companies; work experience is far more important than before...” Always find ways to boost your skills and stand out, and be prepared to re-locate if you have to. Closing dates for graduate schemes are earlier in the past; a company might have taken on a graduate and waited five years before they were productive. Today, employers need people to be productive quicker

Browse job sites:

Not necessarily with the view of finding a job you can apply for (although obviously this could be an added bonus) let Google be your friend, but more to give you a sense of the possibilities out there. Look at sites such as www.jobbeerman.com etc. You’ll see the sectors with the most vacancies, familiarize yourself with job application jargon, and help identify any common skills that you can develop to improve your employment prospects.

Be open to new ideas, Try something completely different. Crazy is the new cool.

Use social media: Social media is a fantastic tool for finding work. In fact we find a good deal of our staff through announcements on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I also think these are great places to promote yourself and your skills – word about you looking for work will spread quickly and people might recommend you.

Finally;

Network right: I think the main aim of networking is to start a conversation that you can continue at a later date. Definitely exchange contact details and then, just as you would do after an interview, drop that contact a line to say why you enjoyed meeting them and/or what interested you most about your conversation. You don't need so many tricks when you're being yourself.

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Sometimes students think that if they need to persist at a task in class then they must not be smart enough. They learn not to value persistence because they see it as a sign that they are not smart enough to “get it” the first time.

Of course that’s a generalization, but there’s more than a little truth to it as well.

This series of blog entries is about the Teachers Handbook that we all carry in our head. Those unspoken and unquestioned default ways of working that we call on every day, that might actually be robbing kids of the opportunity to develop their Habits of Mind. It might be one of these default ways of working that leads children to believe that persisting is a sign of being not smart enough.

Consider this scenario. You’ve set the students in your class 10 questions to answer by the end of the class. With 5 minutes left in the class what would you normally do? Is it likely that you’d ask who’s got all 10 questions finished? Is it also likely that you’d set any unfinished questions as extra work at home or after class? Sound pretty familiar? What’s the message students get from this?

The message is that getting finished is what’s important. That if you couldn’t get through the work and needed to persist then you mustn’t be smart enough. Students that finish quickly and easily are the ones that get recognised and rewarded.

Consider this strategy as an alternative to asking who’s finished their work. Ask instead “who’s got stuck at least twice today, and can tell me what they did to get unstuck?”. The recognition goes to the students who were engaging in a process, that were learning how to learn. Further, the discussion that follows is one that is based on the learning process.

Some of the students who got to the last question may not have needed to persist – that would be a sign that the work was too easy for them. Should they be rewarded for that?

Another student was focused, tried 5 different ways to work through a problem until finally they solved it, but because they had work through it only got up to question 6. Shouldn’t they be recognised and rewarded for their efforts? Ultimately aren’t the students that are become more effective at over coming difficulties likely to become the most successful? Wouldn’t you want other students to behave in a similar way?

In our default Teachers Handbook we reward work being completed – which it needs to be – but we sometimes do this at the expense of rewarding students for the way they complete work. In a classroom where everyone is working in their Goldilocks Zone every student should be regularly getting stuck. The measure of success is how they approach that situation.

Perhaps as teachers we can try to rewrite that page in our default Teachers Handbook that says ” recognise and reward students who finish their work” and rewrite that page to read “recognise and reward students who go about finishing their work in the most thoughtful, effective ways”. Of course sometimes these students will also have completed all the work, but often they will be the students, that if they continue working that way, will become the students who complete all their work!

Although we might encourage students to “be persistent” our actions often speak louder than words. If we don’t actively recognise, encourage, expect and reward students who are developing this Habit of MInd, then they in turn will devalue the Habit.

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New Year 2015, everyone will fall in the madness of celebrating New Year by sending Happy New Year . The New Year is the universal festival which is celebrated all over the world.

So start sending those lovely messages and put a smile on someones face.

My wishes for you, great start for Jan, love for Feb, peace for March,
No worries for April, fun for May, joy for June to Nov, happiness for Dec.
Have a Lucky and Wonderful 2015!

May this Happy New year brings you the long lasting Happiness and Success
A great new start that make you and your dears happy and Joyful
Happy New Year and Seasons greetings.

You are a dreamer, and you are an achiever.
May you dream and achieve bigger feats, with every passing year.
All the best for the New Year.

Years come and go but we will remain friends and never be a foe
Therefore, before the sun sets down low, I’m wishing you
A Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Good Morning.
It Is Time To Jump Out Of Bed,
Brush Your Teeth,
Eat Your Breakfast And
Get Ready To Grab
All The Opportunities
That Will Come Your Way.
Happy First Good Morning of 2015

Μay the year 2ο15 be like Α blank book Τhat is waiting Yοur intervention tο fill up Ιts 365 pages ωith all the cοlors under Τhe sun making Ιt a vibrant Αddition to Yοur life

Νew Year is Τhe time tο remember Αll the memories ωe share, Αll the fun Τhings we did, Αll the secrets ωe poured out fοr distance is Τhe last thing Τhat can create Α rift in οur friendship

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1. There Are No Shortcuts

2. Be Real With Yourself

3. Don’t Try And Be Something You’re Not

4. Define Your Success

Gary’s definition of Success:

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