Daniel Bwala

simply awesome

[DON G @KINGGGE_]

I turned in my resignation on a Thursday.

By Friday afternoon, word had spread through the office.

Most people congratulated me.

A few told me they wished they could do the same. Around 5 PM, just as I was packing up my desk, I got a message from the company owner.

"Before you leave, stop by my office."

My stomach dropped.

I had only spoken to him a handful of times in seven years, I figured this was going to be one of............

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Bro this dude is unreal 🔥🔥🔥

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Watch this video to understand exactly how Tinubu and his political leadership have for the common man.

[LACEY @Lacey_xenon]

Lady on the left is the definition of “smart strong and locked in”
How well did you do?

[Fahadjackman @FahadJackman]

🚨🚨🚨
The Butcher's Blade

ضابط صغير يُتهم ظلمًا ويجد نفسه في صراع مع قوى سياسية فاسدة بعد أن يصبح كبش فداء، ثم يتعاون مع أصدقاء لمحاولة استعادة العدالة في عالم مليء بالفساد !

فيلم اكشن دراما واثارة صيني متوفر للمشاهدة بجودة البلوراي

[Sunday League @SundayShoutsFC]

This video must never disappear. 🤣😭🇧🇷

[Naija @Naija_PR]

Let's be careful with our words!

[calys😶‍🌫️ @calysszn]

I knew the phrase “curiosity kills the cat” was wrong🤣

[KlintonCod @klintoncod]

This real issues

[SEDUCTIVE MIND @MidnightMuse___]

JAPANESE COUPLES HAVE THE MOST STABLE MARRIAGES IN THE WORLD BECAUSE OF ONE RULE ALMOST EVERY WESTERN THERAPIST IGNORES:

[Zekeri Idris Jnr @IdrisZekeriJnr]

You cannot second to God, gods or the ancestors what they have given you the ability to do for yourself. #nigeria #politics

[MovieFrameX @MovieFrameX]

The genius

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nokia could have invented the iPhone. Three years before Apple did, a Nokia engineer walked into a meeting in Finland with a working prototype: a touchscreen phone with full internet access. Management killed it. The device looked too expensive and too risky to sell. The same year, Nokia also rejected a proposal for an online app store. Apple would launch the same idea four years later.

In 2007, Nokia controlled 40% of the world's mobile phone market and was worth more than $150 billion. By 2013, it had sold its phone business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion. The company that defined the cell phone became irrelevant in less time than it takes most kids to finish high school.

In 2016, two professors from INSEAD and Aalto University spent years interviewing 76 Nokia executives, engineers, and consultants for a research paper. Their conclusion: nobody at the company could have an uncomfortable conversation.

Senior leaders were described as "extremely temperamental." One consultant remembered then-CEO Jorma Ollila shouting at people "at the top of his lungs" in front of fifteen other vice presidents. Middle managers learned the rules fast. Bad news got you fired, so they stopped delivering it.

The engineers knew Nokia's operating system could not compete with what Apple was building for the iPhone. One design team submitted 500 separate proposals to fix it between 2001 and 2009. Not a single one got approved. When a middle manager once suggested that a colleague push back against a top executive, the colleague refused. He "didn't have the courage; he had a family and small children."

The top managers were also afraid, just of different things. They worried about looking weak to investors. So they publicly defended the old operating system while privately knowing it was dying. The middle managers heard the demand for optimism and supplied it. For four years, the people who knew the company was sinking could not get that message to the people who could do something about it.

Researchers call this shoot-the-messenger culture. It shows up in cockpit recordings before plane crashes, in hospital records before preventable deaths, and in the investigations of the 2008 financial crisis. The cost of avoiding a difficult conversation is always paid later, with interest.

Nokia's case is unusual because the math is so clean: the silence cost roughly $143 billion in market value and an entire company. The discomfort would have cost a few bad meetings.

[Rāma Śēṣan Chandraśēkaran @maa_bhaishiiH]

RSVP is French for “Répondez s'il vous plaît” which means “respond, please” and literally means “Respond, if it pleases you”. English uses lot of French phrases verbatim. Some of them are :

1. Faux pas (false step)
2. Quelle surprise (what a surprise)
3. À la carte (by the menu card)
4. Bon appétit (good appetite)
5. Résumé (summary)
6. Fait accompli (thing done / done deal)
7. En route (on the way)
8. déjà vu (I have already seen)
9. Au contraire (on the contrary)
10. Enfant terrible (disruptive child)
11. Touché (valid)
12. Voila (there it is)
13. C'est la vie (that is life)
14. Coup d'état (strikeout of the state)
15. Raison d'être (reason to be)
16. Tour de force (feat of strength)
17. Vis-a-vis (face to face)
18. M’aidez (help me) - distress mayday signal
19. Double entendre (double meaning)
20. laissez-faire (allow to do)

[Ayomiposi✍️ @jokotagbaposi]

I’m surprised most people still haven’t seen Ling Cage! A lot of them assume Chinese anime is bad, but this one is straight fire.

Hoping for Season 3 soon — Season 2 was peak! 🔥

[Abu-Sadeeq @Dongarrus1]

Finally today we found yakubu manage guy "you feel like you want to die but you will not die" is that clear... 😂😂😂

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

Senseless Nigerian Men, come learn a thing or 2.

Do you copy ?

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

At a medical school, a professor looked at a student and asked,
"How many kidneys do we have?"
"Four!" the student answered.

"Four?" the professor replied, sounding proud and ready to embarrass the student. He was one of those teachers who enjoyed pointing out others' mistakes. Turning to his assistant, the professor said, "Bring some grass, because there’s a donkey in the room."

"And a coffee for me!" the student quickly added, speaking to the assistant.

The professor got very angry and threw the student out of the classroom. But that student was actually the well-known humorist Aparicio Torelly Aporelly (1895–1971), also called the 'Baron of Itararé.'

As he left the room, the student boldly corrected the angry professor:
"You asked me how many kidneys we have. We have four kidneys — two are mine and two are yours. The word ‘we’ means more than one person. Enjoy your coffee… and the grass is for you."

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN MINDSET - A Compilation RESOURCE MASTERTHREAD of Posts about Africa and the African diaspora that try to help explain the African Mindset and the reasons for the ways that many Africans engage with the World - read this if you want to understand AFRICA 🧵🌍