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How To Achieve Decisive Reforms. The Wood-Worker Principle!

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No matter how good or bad a base baller is, he must swing the bat if he/she ever hopes to make a home run. This true in love, business or career as it is in life. Nothing magically comes in to existence without action and activity. Consequently it is a loud cheer that i present our guest writer Mr Gabriel Zowam who is a reform and risk management expert. His advice is not just to the African state but to all of us as individuals. When we seek to achieve greatness do we go with the grain or against it? What plans do we bring to achieve the desires of our hearts and minds? Lets hear what Mr Zowam has to say. By Gabriel Zowam Many years ago, the United States government was faced with the menace of used beer bottles, which littered its streets, as Americans simply “drank and dropped”! But instead of setting up a special agency and infrastructure for apprehending and punishing the offenders, government simply restructured the system: it put a 5-cent deposit on each bottle...

In Pursuit of Design

I returned from my last trip on the 10th of May. Since then i have been trying to "degauss" my mind from life in Africa and re-orient my self to the reality of accomplishing my doctorate degree. My entire focus (or most of it) is firmly focused on achieving my research objectives. The very first weekend I went to work? My office computer was not working and the HP netbook I took on my 5 week trip also chose to pack up. Fortunately in England there are institutional methods to resolve such "down time". The office IT group instantly went to work on my CPU and discovered it was a burnt power module. Similary the HP netbook is barely 6 months old therefore PC World is obliged to repair it for free. It did take me an unplanned 3-hour stretch to back it up. Two things here, they knew like I did that the problem was a burnt power chord but still insisted in "due process" even though painfully that meant 10 days of my life waiting forthe replacement power chord. ...