I am giving you 1,000 USD!!
Or would you prefer the contact of someone who would offer you a resource worth 100,000 USD?
In 4 yrs of my BSc in Zoology at Uniben, I never visited the Dept. of Business or English even though I loved business and writing. Can you imagine!! In my 3 years PhD at Lancaster University studying worms, I won multiple business fellowships in Cambridge, Stanford US, the EU, all from visiting the Management School a lot.
African Science lecturers and students need to be enterprising for innovation yet don’t know anything about entrepreneurship because it is not in a science curriculum!!
Do you know there is no regulation in any University that stops a science student from sitting in a business lecture and vice versa? It’s just the exams you can’t take. So I asked many business professors ‘if a science student came to ask to sit in your business lecture, what would you say? Surprisingly, all of them said ‘they would oblige’. One even said ‘that would be my best student because they are not supposed to yet want to be in my class and other students are probably cursing me for all I know’ 🤣🤣
Being entrepreneurial is not just about setting up a business, it’s also about knowing how to get the resources you need. Funded by the British Council...Continue in comments.
It has been an absolute pleasure to be funded by the British Council and working with Lancaster University and four African university partners to develop an online course on ‘Stimulating Entrepreneurial Thinking in Scientists (SETS Digital). We are launching this Thursday May 20th 11am UK time (See flyer and to participate click link on profile -
Dr Akan, what drives you?
Have you been asked that question? I get asked it a lot. Sometimes I am tempted to say 'a car' but I don't have a self-driving ride. When I do, it would be a cool answer 🤣
I do think about that question though and I’ve not been able to answer it until recently.
Let me put it this way. If you tried hard to write a first book and sold one million copies, would you need 'special self-motivation' to write the second one? 🤔
After my last book - The Graduate Code became impactful, I wrote the next one 'The Career Precode' in less than 2 months. Then it hit me!!! I doubt you have to beg Elon Musk to get out of bed in the morning!!
'Vision but most importantly results and impact' and that includes 'revenue' or whatever you define as your ‘value’ is the sweetest form of self motivation and drive. The reason you don't have self motivation is because you have not tasted impact and the reason you have not tasted impact is because you have not 'tried' or 'persisted'.
I don't underestimate the effect of set backs to motivation but I would rather you show me your set backs than nothing at all. Set backs are a confirmed no-go route to impact. Define your 'impact profile', phase them, celebrate the little wins and get that self-driving BMW😊
Respect!!! Respect!!
When I call a UK professor with the title 'Professor so so... he thinks it's a gentle insult.....just call me by my first name 'please'; then I tried calling a Nigerian Professor by his first name and all hell breaks loose. 'Do you know who I am? You don't have respect for your father' and I had to kill an intellectual G.O.A.T to appease the intellectual gods.
I use to wonder why titles are a big deal until I finished my doctorate degree and knew it is not beans!!! Na who no go no know!!! But when folks call themselves titles not due or titles replaces substance, then that's a topic for another day!!!
In my job, I could train young impressionable students in the morning and then train a big room of professors in the evening and navigating those worlds requires tact, skill and 'something else'.
I used to think academic intelligence was all you needed to grow in your career but over the years, I have discovered social, emotional and cultural intelligence and they keep adding new categories all the time.
If all you do is study and 'cram' only your own academic courses, there is a problem. Decide to learn something new outside your area of specialty every time cos as the world gets 'smaller', your mind should get 'larger' else you would be squashed!!!
100 people, 10 countries, 1 month and 0 cash.
Many people say they don't have time to do or grow what they love. What if I told you that I will pay you 1 million dollars to start new activities without stopping the old activities that keep you busy, what will you do?
Then your capacity for time-saving would kick in because the motivation and trigger is right. Then you will reduce how many TV series you binge on or keep looking at your watch during those long endless unnecessary committee meetings.
So the problem is not that you don't have time but that you don't have the right motivation to manoeuvre time. Time is constant and so time management is the management of self in order to manage time.
I have been getting endless requests for mentorship so I am launching a new Flexylearn International Career Coaching Program.
If you are a professional needing career clarity and enhancement or a student wanting career direction before you even graduate, see flyer for directions on how to apply.
There will be an interview process and we will take on 100 people from 10 countries for a 1 month career program at 0 cost. You will be informed of the outcome within one week. Program starts May 17th and it will be super flexible.
Come get the right triggers and so much more!!
