Obinna Udeh is a Finance Expert with years of Banking experience that cuts across multiple core roles of the Banking Business. He is a licensed Financial Market Dealer, and curiously, a Human Resources professional. This two core career interests of Finance and People Management, has made Obinna a resourceful Speaker and Writer on related subjects. Early Career Management strategies, Personal Development, Finance and Investment Strategies, are some of the subjects he passionately writes and speaks on.
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- July 20, 2023
THE CONCEPT OF THE GIG ECONOMY
The evolution of work has been very dramatic in the last decade. Changes in how we work and what we do have been altered today than ever before. So many companies have sprung up to solve modern problems all over the world, and we are more connected than we have ever been.
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- July 19, 2023
POWER OF RESILIENT LEADERSHIP
During the pandemic of 2020, the entire frame of human life was tested. The tolerance of our human systems was all pushed to the brinks; businesses, social establishments, mobility, name it. Many of them failed, others were exhaustively tried, but the peak of the changes was in human interactions. We will never be the same again.
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- July 18, 2023
THE ART OF INFLUENCING
The hallmark of leadership is simply the ability to influence the decision of others. Whether in a formal setting, like an organization, or an informal setting, like friends and family, leadership is defined as that ability to influence others. It could be influencing them towards a goal, towards making a behavioural change, or towards a feat. So, you can be a leader even without bearing the title.
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- July 17, 2023
THE CONCEPT OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE
As a growing career person, one of the muscles you need to build is that of efficient cross-cultural interaction. You will be required to meet and work with people from diverse background, and it is important to succeed in this area of your competence.
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- July 13, 2023
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HURDLES TO AN INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATION
Most organizations pride themselves as being innovative. They have a comprehensive policy framework that supports innovation and creativity among their teams, often covering innovation approach, innovation process and rewards for innovative ideas. However, there are hurdles to attaining an innovative organization, and this is an employee-view to these hurdles.
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- July 12, 2023
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BECOMING MORE SELF-AWARE
All through his career as a comic book writer, Stan Lee saw the world through the eyes of little children, and hoped to show them, through his cartoon characters, that everyone is born with a super power. The long list of super heroes created by Stan Lee were all endowed with special abilities for helping their communities. Imagine what those fictional worlds would have been if those super heroes do not know their super powers.
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- July 11, 2023
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BUILDING PERSONAL BOARD OF ADVISORS
Years ago, I read from the Book of Proverbs that “Surely you need guidance to wage war, and victory is won through many advisers”, and since then, I have paid close attention to the college of advisors I have around me. I figured that seeking guidance and advice from people is the easiest way to not go amiss. We all need a board of advisors.
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- July 10, 2023
MAKE HAPPINESS A PRIORITY
Since the beginning of our consciousness, it feels like there is a compass within us guiding us to the place of happiness. It is like a small light, a quiet nudging that pulls us in the direction of more happiness. And even as adults, this guiding compass has helped us choose the kind of company we keep, the kind of work we do, the kind of places we are most likely to be found. My theory is that this feeling is universal.
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- July 7, 2023
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TO REGRET OR TO FORGE AHEAD STRONGER?
If you live long enough, you will have a lot to regret. There will be decisions you wished you made, choices you wished you didn’t make, doors you wished never opened, and those you wish you knocked on. If you live long enough, the list will grow. But the question you must answer daily is: do I stop and regret or take a lesson and move on?
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- July 6, 2023
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HOW PRIDE RUINS IT ALL
In today’s fickle and exceptionally sensitive world, the wastes and ruins of pride are littered all around us. From the executive who pridefully ignores a warning from a junior colleague, to a junior who pridefully overlooks a correction; from a husband who tramples over the counsel of his wife, to a wife who refuses to listen to her husband. Pride has been the motivation for a lot of harm.
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- July 5, 2023
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DEALING WITH IMPOSTER SYNDROME
A few years ago, I had a scheduled session with my mentor to discuss a feeling I had, I later learnt that it is called imposter syndrome. At the time, I told him that I was struggling with self-confidence in my new role; it felt like I was not qualified to be promoted in the manner I was; as if people will “find me out” soon. This is the classic definition of imposter syndrome.
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- July 4, 2023
HOW GREAT FEEDBACKS WORK
In Project Management, there are five recognized stages involved in every project: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, and closure. While every stage is unique and incredibly valuable to the entire project cycle, I admire the value of monitoring and control to a project.
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- July 3, 2023
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MERCENARY OR MISSIONARY: ASSESSING YOUR CAREER OBJECTIVES
In my June 20th 2023 article, WHY JUMPERS SEEM TO WIN, one of my readers, Dubem Orji, shared a beautiful comment. The closing line of the comment reads: “…My take is this, you can either be a missionary or a mercenary. Whichever one you adjudge pays you better but you can’t have it both ways.” I found the comment quite enlightening and have borrowed the line as today’s topic.
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- June 30, 2023
TURNING DREAMS INTO ACTIONS
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”—Les Brown.
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- June 29, 2023
BECOME A LIFELONG LEARNER
Today, every passing minute, knowledge is being disseminated. We have more information today than we know what to do with. In fact, it is my opinion that we are overwhelmed by the sheer abundance of information all around us that we simply freeze in our pursuit to know. However, we are called to learn daily.
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