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Crushing It In The Moment In the first release  on the personal development lessons from the Tennis Court, I shared some 6Cs thoughts. These are, Crack It, Court, Coach, Club, Consistency and Counterattacks . Today, I would be sharing an additional C - Crushing It ! On the court, imagine playing double. In the play, there is a consistent flow, everyone is enjoying the rally. Then the game became more intense and turbulent. The shots are coming with more force and speed and now more often. You, like most are already gasping for oxygen. On the side and on the bench are eager and ready players to take their turns, yet they are enjoying the pleasure of your game and the game is on. Your partner is better at the game than you. He understands the dynamics and has responsively scaled his game saving your team on many occasions. Your partner gave a damaging shot and the opponent managed to return it but leaving them strayed, unstable and off-court. Then the ball return to you high and set....

EYE ON THE BALL, NOT BALL ON THE EYE - Personal Development from Tennis Court I have admired the game of Tennis for a very long time and had considered sometime in the future. In 2017, I was fortunate to have a direct boss who plays Tennis well. My boss motivated me and purchased some kits in preparation to start learning. Somehow, I procrastinated and never got to start learning. In 2020 however, as we grateful eased out of the COVID-19 lockdown, I switched and decided to change direction. Emerging from the sedentary lockdown, I was fresh, plum and a bit above my expected body mass index. It was apparent that I had to increase physical exercise. Taking advantage of this situation, I brought out my scanty kit, went out in search of a court and a coach and I started learning in November 2020.  Now, it is November 26, 2022, two years on. I decided to sit back to reflect and document what my journey has been like on the court and some of the lessons I draw from my trainings. I a...

ABSTRACT: Building a resilient global supply chain is a prominent theme in the recommended strategies for managing disruptions of the scale brought by the COVID-19 Pandemic. This work is a systematic review of the history of pandemics in the past 100 years and their relation with the global supply chain and the economy at the time. It queries the weak link in the global supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies lessons to shape the design of future global supply chains. In the review, the causes of the pandemics and impacts via trade routes and other economic factors were compared. We also compared the pandemic severities and economic impacts on most affected countries. Tracking the global supply chains route and travel routes is a key lesson for countries trying to contain and mitigate future pandemics. The COVID-19 challenge has begun to reengineer global supply chains and we concluded with a recommendation of re-identifying the weakest links, consider distributed or d...

Compliments of the season! In December 2017, I quoted IBM's report that the smarter supply chain of the future will be far more Instrumented, Interconnected and Intelligent. To advance this and position supply chain for the future and in partial fulfillment of my Masters in Strategic Supply Chain Management at the University of Roehampton, I ran a research titled;  Emerging Innovations and Technologies in Vaccine Supply Chain, Nigeria.  At the time I considered five major technologies and innovations with potentials to change the paradigms in the supply chain space. My intentions then was to bring the awareness into my space (public health), assess the preparedness, highlight confounding factors and set the agenda in the next steps towards possible adoption for supply chain improvement and the optimization of resources in the Low and Middle Income Countries. In the quest, I used different models and theories (like UTUAT, TAM, TOC and Diffusion of Innovations) to ...

Tmarvelz: The Mix and Paradox; Change is Transformation! : Change.  I like the word and the concept of change. It gives me the opportunity to begin in new and better ways. It puts me on the good pl...

Change.  I like the word and the concept of change. It gives me the opportunity to begin in new and better ways. It puts me on the good platform on a game plan. It quickens my pulse to being proactive and gives me the flavours of adventure. But what is change? What changes and what makes change(s) worthwhile? Transformation . This implies a marked change in form, nature and appearance. I love transformation because it is organic, introspective and still dynamic. That is when you look at transformation in the form of transformational leadership style. Who is transforming what and for what or for who? Enough of this! Change or Transformation, grammatically and in practice, you hardly talk about or do one without the other. In context they are actually synonyms! The Mix and the Paradox. For me it amazing to see the hypes for change and transformation in Nigeria 2015 and the political parties. It seems to me that grammatical physiology of this two words is literally p...

Malaria, the old time killer disease kills nearly one million people yearly. About eighty five percent of this are children under five years of age. Africa is the most affected by malaria about 80% of cases, though it is still of significance concern in Asia and Latin America. A multifacet approach at different levels is the main stay to eradication, prevention and treatment of malaria. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by protozoa called, plasmodium , a microorganism of different types. This micro-organism carried or transmitted by a vector, called anopheles mosquito. We always hear “prevention is better than cure”. As old as it may, this is still valid till tomorrow. Prevention is the most trusted and reliable approach to the managing the age long crisis, malaria. This is the trick. Eradication or at least reduction in population of mosquito reduces the chances of mosquito bites. Reduction in or avoidance of mosquito bites profers reduction in chances of infection and even...

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It is the virus that causes AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. The virus is a retrovirus. it grows and reproduces using the nutrients of human cells especially the immune cells. A person may be HIV Positive without being an AID patient. An HIV positive patient would be said to have AIDS if he or she meet one or both of the following;  The presence of one or more AIDS related infections or illnesses  CD4≤200Cells/mm3 of blood (normal range =450-1200cells/mm3 of blood) UNAIDS estimates that about 33million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. About 3.6% of Nigerians were said to be infected with HIV and about 192,000 dying of AIDS. Most HIV positive persons live without symptons for about 10-12 years; this makes voluntary counselling and testing very essential and indisputable. Early diagnosis is the key to management of HIV/AIDS. In essence, proper management begins with early diagnosis. Therefore, go test yourself...

Obesity (over weight) is implicated in so many disease condition. For example, diabetes, arthritis, cardaic failure etc. However we still see obese people tending to eating too much. You don’t blame them for that, you blame the extra fat. They would usually need some more glucose to power the extra fat they carry thus, tends to eat more. They complain about their weight but they still eat so much. They can hardly move their legs and we advocate physical exercise. Some of them suffer from ulcer (peptic ulcerative disorder) and we recommend starving and so on. What a paradox! Diet, physical exercise and life style adjustment are still the main stay in the management of obesity. It is important to note however that, certain aggressive approaches are needed to overcome the inertia to put management on course. Something that works, a result oriented and cost effective approach. Drug therapy, harbal or orthodox medicines are significant to starting management. Fat burners, anti...

This is a group of metabolic-endocrine disease that is characterized with chronic hyperglycaemia (i.e high blood sugar/ glucose). It is a condition in which the body can not properly convert food into energy. The consistently high blood glucose is associated with acute, as well as long term complications affecting the eyes, kidneys, feet, nerves, cardiovascular system etc. Some of the symptoms of diabetes are;  Increased thirst, polydipsia and urination, polyurea,  Constant hunger, polyphegia,  Weight loss,  Blood vison,  Extreme fatique, etc There are three main types of diabetes mellitus as follows ; (a) Type I or the Juvenile diabetes. This results from the destruction of the pancreatic β cells usually by autoimmune processes. It presents at young age especially at teens and twenties. It requires daily use of insulin for survival, thus called insulin-dependent diabetes. Insulin is a hormone that is produced and secreted by the endocrine system in the body. It usu...

“Study hard, work hard and be focused” were more familiar statements from my father. I can bet with my kidney that those statements were as valid as the rising of the sun. However something very important was missing all along. My daddie was happy and comfortable with the things happening with me. I was on top of my game. I was at my best. I was spinning at top of my class and my principal too was happy about everything. Nonetheless, i was still ignorant of one important contemprary issue. Toyin was an incredibly beatiful jewel, a damsel, a friend and classmate of mine. She was also on top of her game, brilliant. I tell you grammer failed to describe how fabulously elegant she was. It was our friend’s birthday party . I there with my sister and she was too. Toyin was different, not in her usual school uniform, she was pretty to say the least. Then, i started feeling something i only feel in the morning in my room. “What should i do now, this is embarassing” i said to myself. ...