7 Ways to Go From a Boss to a Leader

1. Love people.

No one can lead a team well unless he or she truly enjoys working with people. People are not minions; they are individuals with unique personalities, traits and talents. As a leader, you must enjoy helping people and watching them succeed. 

6 Steps That Will Help Your Chances of Starting a Successful Business

1. Define and evaluate your goals.

Once you have that goal, you need to know if your path is the most direct route to achieving what you want.

4 Steps to Building a Great Product-Focused Organization

1. Create a strong, clear and flexible road map.

Great product-focused organizations have a short-term (12 months), mid-term (24 months) and long-term (36 months and beyond) vision as to where they want to go and how to get there. This unified view, or "north star," is what guides all product-development decisions the company makes. Product-focused organizations recognize the importance of focus and getting all internal team members on the same page.

Naira firms on parallel market as CBN sells dollars

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sold $80 million to bureaux de change (BDC) operators on Wednesday at N197 to a dollar. This helped to strengthen the nation’s currency on the parallel market, the president of the association of forex dealers said.

Inflation rate remains 9.2%

The National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday released the Consumer Price Index for July 2015, stating that the nation’s inflation rate had remained unchanged at 9.2 per cent.

The actual CPI released by the bureau came against experts’ forecast, which had predicted that the rate could increase to 9.4 per cent.

In the CPI report, which was made available to our correspondent, the bureau said the 9.2 per cent figure was the same rate at which the index grew in June.

The report said, “In July, the CPI, which measures inflation, rose by 9.2 per cent (year-on-year), unchanged from the rate recorded in June.

4 Things Millionaires Do That Most People Don't

1. Millionaires work hard.

A lot of people think that winning the lottery is their ticket to success, but I’ve got bad news for you. Nearly 90 percent of lottery winners go through their winnings in five years, leaving them back in the same situation they were in before they won.

Millionaires know that there are no shortcuts to success. There’s only hard work executed relentlessly in pursuit of a goal.

Why professional development?

Professional development can provide the drive to progress your career, and can make you more employable. Professional development is something you will do every day of your life without even thinking about it; however, being conscious of the development you undertake will allow you to record this and develop in a systematic way. In order to maximise your potential for lifetime employability, it is essential that you maintain high levels of professional competence by continually improving your knowledge and skills.

By taking ownership of your career and focusing your professional development you will:

·         Be able to recognize opportunity

·         Be more aware of the trends and directions in technology and society

·         Become increasingly effective in the workplace

·         Be able to help, influence and lead others by your example

·         Be confident of your future employ-ability

·         Have a fulfilling and rewarding career

The 8 Biggest Mistakes in Sales

The 8 essential selling principles that most sales people and sales organisation either get wrong or don’t implement are: 

1. Not selling the solution

People and companies buy things only in an attempt to solve a problem. Sales people spend too much time on the offer rather than assuring the buyer that the product, company and individual will solve the problem.