Global Peter Drucker Challenge 2015 – Win a trip to Vienna, Austria

Deadline: July 15, 2015

The Global Peter Drucker Challenge is
a contest for students and professionals from
across the world. Organized by the Peter Drucker
Society Europe, the contest aims at raising
awareness of the works and humanistic values
of Peter Drucker among young people – the new
generation poised to build on a management
philosophy that puts the human being at
its center.
Take part in the Global Peter Drucker Challenge
contest to qualify for participation in one of the
leading conferences on management: The 7th
Global Peter Drucker Forum taking place in
Vienna, Austria, on 5 and 6 November 2015. The
The Global Peter Drucker Forum is an annual
conference aimed at advancing the development
of management thinking and practice in order to
respond to the changing requirements in our
societies.
The Contest
In 2015, you are invited to think out of the box
and to submit an essay covering the
topic “Managing Oneself in the Digital Age”. The
theme will challenge you to take a look inside
yourself to place out the strength that no one
else possesses.
Read more about the Topic and Context.
Benefits
Free registration to the Global
Peter Drucker Forum for the best
30 contributions
Join the debate with 40 leading
international speakers and 400
top decision makers from all over
the world
Meet with 20 finalists at the
Challenge Get-Together
Engage in lively discussions at the
speakers’ reception and the Gala
event
Opportunity to participate in a
session and an interview by
important media
EUR 1.000 prize money for 1st
prize winners in the two
categories
Win a one-year-all-access
subscription to Harvard Business
Review
Funding of travel expenses
(airfare plus 3 nights lodging) for
the 1st prize winners in the two
categories
Invitation to the events on the pre-
conference day (Nov. 4) including
Drucker Challenge Get-Together
(with partner) and Speakers
reception (with partner)
Invitation to the Gala event on
Nov. 5 with awards ceremony
(with partner)
Ranking list and publication of
essay
on www.druckerchallenge.org
The opportunity to get a blog with
your key thoughts published
on www.druckerforum.org/blog
One year free membership with
Peter Drucker Society Europe
Eligibility
You are qualified to enter the challenge if:
You are born 1980 or later, at
least 18 years old?
You are a student (undergraduate,
graduate level, MBA)?
You are a professional (manager
or entrepreneur)? Not yet sure
about your orientation? No
problem – you are also invited to
participate in the contest
You have not been selected or
only once among the TOP 10
since 2010?
Guidelines
Form: Essay (1500 to 3000 words)
Language: English
Open to 2 categories:
Students
(undergraduates,
graduates, MBA,
Phd)
Professionals
(managers and
entrepreneurs),
future
professionals
Age 18 – 35
Evaluation Criteria
Essay submissions will be evaluated according to
The way you describe your
personal insights based on
Peter Drucker’s essay “Managing
Oneself”
The way you are translating Peter
Drucker’s people-centered
management philosophy in our
times as a basis for further
reflections
The way you connect the past and
the future from your own cultural
point of view.

Submit your essay here

DepicT! 2015 Short Film Competition

DepicT! 2015

Can you do it in 90 seconds?
Filmmakers worldwide! Accept the DepicT!
challenge and get creative in just a minute
and a half to be in with a chance of winning
up to £2500 prize money, invaluable industry
exposure, and a host of other exclusive
prizes.
The Challenge
We want to see great films – it doesn’t
matter what your budget is or what genre
you’re working in. The competition is open to anyone from anywhere in the world, and entry is absolutely free – but there is ONE caveat:
Your film MUST be 90 seconds or less in
duration.
If your films are longer than 90 seconds , you can still enter into Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (15 – 20 Sept 2015).For more info, head over to www.encounters-festival.org.uk

Online submission
Deadline for entries is:
Monday 6 July, 5.00pm, 2015
Free entry.
Shortlisted entries for 2015 will be
announced on Tuesday 1 September
2015.
Submit here
Entry requirements
- Must be 90 seconds or under
- Must be completed after September
2014.
- Open to all genres and production
techniques

Igbo Competition

You can be the winner

Be a Professional Make-up Artiste

For the first time in my so serious life I felt Luke taking up a make up class. This is one person that happens to be better and so good. Well, that's personal. However, if you are looking for the next thing to do with your #$£,99k, then this happens to be an opportunity to spend your money wisely again. Just take your bag and off you go. Don't bother yourself with little hushhushush... You just find out that I just helped you out. Don't mention.

Obama’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative spins off from White House

President Barack Obama greets guests from
Youth Guidance’s BAM (Becoming a Man)
program at the White House in 2013. (Official
White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

President Barack Obama’s multimillion-dollar
initiative to boost young minority men and boys
is spinning off from the White House and
becoming an independent
foundation, in preparation for his departure
from the Oval Office in 2017. Obama will speak
at an event at Lehman College in the Bronx on
Monday afternoon announcing the new
nonprofit, called My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.
Eliminating achievement gaps and increasing
opportunities for young men of color is
expected to be one of Obama’s key
postpresidential causes. My Brother’s Keeper
Alliance (MBK Alliance) will be modeled in part
after the Clinton Global Initiative, started by
former President Bill Clinton in 2005. The
foundation will channel corporate and
individual donations to existing programs for
minority youth , with an emphasis on local
programs that can be replicated in other cities.
Joe Echevarria — the former CEO of the
accounting firm Deloitte and a leader of the My
Brother’s Keeper Task Force’s private-sector
initiative — has taken a leadership role in
forming the new organization. Many of the 11
groups that are part of My Brother’s Keeper will
remain involved.
It’s unclear exactly what the president’s role
will be in the group, though associates expect
him to remain involved with MBK Alliance after
he leaves office. The plight of young minority
men and boys is an issue that Obama is
expected to be involved with for the rest of his
life, alongside first lady Michelle Obama.
“I expect a substantive and lasting impact from
the new organization,” said Robert K. Ross,
president of the California Endowment, a
nonprofit involved in My Brother’s Keeper.
“The president will rally corporate, nonprofit,
civic and faith leaders to the cause of these
young men, and this will have an energizing
effect on young men of color themselves.”
Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper last year
and has raised commitments and donations of
$400 million from private companies and
foundations. The money goes to programs to
help lift minority boys’ reading scores by the
third grade — a key predictor of future success
— as well as providing job training, mentoring,
and other support to boost employment and
graduation rates. The NBA, AT&T and
nonprofits such as the California Endowment
have provided the startup money. Hundreds of
towns and cities have also signed up for the My
Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge , which
asks community leaders to collaborate to ensure
that young men of color have the tools they
need to succeed.
The issue is deeply personal to the president,
who has said that he sees himself in the young
minority men he’s met through the program.
“I believe the continuing struggles of so many
boys and young men — the fact that too many
of them are falling by the wayside, dropping
out, unemployed, involved in negative behavior
going to jail, being profiled — this is a moral
issue for our country,” the president said last
year in the East Room of the White House when
he launched the initiative. “It’s also an economi
issue for our country.”
In addition to its local focus, the group will hav
a broader mission to change the narrative
around the nation’s black youth by getting mor
positive images of young minorities into the
media. And the foundation will likely have a
policy arm, working with state and federal
governments to adopt laws and policies that
help young men of color.
Obama first directed his close advisers to
develop My Brother’s Keeper after the death of
17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2013.
Martin, who was black, was killed when a
neighborhood watchman got out of his car to
question the teen for acting “suspicious.” Obam
was moved by the death and spoke about it as
an example of how assumptions about young
minority men lead them to be treated differentl
by police and society.
The issue has only become more prominent
since then. Rioting in Baltimore this week
following the death of Freddie Gray in police
custody has revived an ongoing debate in the
country about the way young black and other
minority men are treated by the police, and the
nation’s criminal justice system as a whole. A
recent New York Times analysis found that 1.5
million black men in America are “missing ” —
they are in jail or died young, mostly from
homicides. (Black men are six times more likely
to be murdered than their white peers.)
In his speech announcing the program last year
Obama said that America had become “numb”
to these bleak statistics. “It’s like a cultural
backdrop for us — in movies and television,” he
said. “We just assume, of course, it’s going to be
like that. But these statistics should break our
hearts. And they should compel us to act.”
Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who left
office just this week, along with Education
Secretary Arne Duncan and Secretary of Labor
Thomas Perez, helped the president craft the
program. Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson
chairs the task force.
Last year, some of Obama’s close advisers said
that his commitment to the effort would last his
entire life.
“I think it’s something that’s deeply personal to
the president and first lady,” Valerie Jarrett, a
senior adviser to the president and the Obamas’
closest friend from Chicago, told Yahoo News
last year when the initiative launched. “I’m sure
their commitment to this initiative will be a
lifelong commitment. This is not something they
simply want to do while he’s in office — it will
continue.”

From - Yahoo News

May Day Live with Ms Lauryn Hill

Be the first to take up a table..you can have all the fun you want. The performance is gonna be great. Sure, you  get your money back as you dey go. Make it a date!

For those who have seen the movie 'Undershepherd', here is what you need to know about Pastor L.C

At one point after asking a question during my phone call with Isaiah Washington, there’s a long silence. Did the call drop? Did he hang up? I check in to see if he’s still there. He is, he says, but he was just thinking. “I think as loudly as I talk,” he replies. “My silence is just as intense as what I say.” No kidding. I only get three questions in to Washington before our time runs out, and yet the conversation lasts 25 minutes. The actor and producer can talk, and a response can touch on several things you were going to ask him and many others you weren’t. 

He’s promoting “Blackbird,” a film he helped produce and one touching on a subject that’s played a key part in his career: homosexuality. Washington plays the surprisingly tolerant father of a deeply religious Bible Belt high schooler (Julian Walker) wrestling with his attraction to the same sex. The actor, who was bumped from “Grey’s Anatomy” over an alleged anti-gay slur he made to out co-star T.R. Knight, knows his words can get him into trouble, but loves to talk all the same. Here are some highlights from our chat:

Not just a film: “I think it should be a television series, like ‘The Wonder Years.’ I say that every day. I don’t know if the producers are listening to me. But I don’t think ‘Blackbird’ is a one-off. I don’t think it should be something that people see, say ‘What a great story!’ and then it disappears. I think that men of color should on HBO or Netflix or Amazon right next to all the other shows that are doing well. It has a lot to say.”

Does he still like acting?: “I’m more interested in taking on more producer positions. I’ve been famous long enough. In my mind I’ve been extraordinarily blessed as an actor. I’ve done everything I set out to do. I wanted to prove to the world that Denzel wasn’t the only leading man. I did that on ‘Grey’s.’ I have 62 episodes to show the world that there’s not only one African American man in Hollywood who can be sexy, smart, interesting, likable, unlikable and complex, like a human being. “

His next step: “I want to produce thought-provoking, mind-changing films. I want to bet the guy in ‘The Kid Stays in the Picture.’ If Richard Branson and Robert Evans had a love child it would be me. In my mind, in my ego that’s how I see myself. When people read that they’ll say, ‘That’s the strangest f—ing thing.’ I know! [Laughs]”

Isaiah Washington and Mo'Nique play parents of a very religious teenager struggling to embrace his homosexuality in "Blackbird."

Photo:

RLJ Entertainment/Urban Movie Channel

Films about ideas: “When you go see a Spike Lee film you know you’re going to be arguing after you’ve left the theater. You’re not going to agree. I think a lot of us in our community have lost sight of what Martin Luther King has given us, which is the ability to acknowledge our critical thinking and critique the public discourse. We’re in a state now where if someone doesn’t agree with you, they have to tar and feather you. [Laughs] You have to die! If you want to hurt me, I’m at Venice Beach. I’m not hard to find. I’m there every day. I’m the most approachable person in the world. The tough talk is just that.”

Spike Lee changed his life: ‘When I saw ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ I was lost. In 1986, I didn’t know where to turn, didn’t know what to do. But I saw ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ I looked on that screen and saw those people — I saw Joie Lee, I saw John Canada Terrell, I saw those beautiful people in black and white. I said, “That’s what I want to do!” I screamed it in the theater. [Laughs] A friend of mine sitting next to me was like, “Oh my god…” I said I was going to work with this man. I didn’t know how long it would take, even if it was in the next 10 years. [Ed. Washington had roles in three Lee films: “Clockers,” “Girl 6” and “Get on the Bus,” in which he played one of the film’s two openly gay characters.] This is what I want to do — to make people of color look beautiful. I want them to be smart, I want them to be intelligent. I’ve achieved that goal. Now I want to help others achieve it

2015/16 NITDA Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme for Nigerians

The National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA), with its mandate
of transforming Nigeria into an IT driven
economy for global competitiveness and the dire
need to bridge the digital divide, has since 2010
established a Scholarship Scheme for Masters
(MSc) and Doctorate (PhD) Degrees in relevant
areas of Information Technology (IT) obtainable
in Nigeria or Foreign / Overseas Universities.
Selection Criteria
The scholarship award is strictly based on merit
and is equally distributed between the six geo-
political zones for PhD and the 36 States and
FCT for MSc.
Duration:
The Masters programme will run for one year
while the Doctorate programme is expected to
run for three years.
Eligibility:
PhD: University Lecturers with
MSc in any Information
Technology related field are
eligible to apply for sponsorship.
MSc: All citizens of Nigeria with
First Class or Second Class
(Upper) Honours Bachelors
degree, (BSc) in Information
Technology related field. The
registration period is six (6) weeks
from the date of this publication.
A comprehensive Aptitude Test
will be conducted to determine
successful candidates for the
Award. Only candidates who are
found eligible will be invited.

Click here to apply

2015 Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop

Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, from June 16 to June 26, 2015. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc. Guest writers who will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie are the Caine Prize Winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, National Librarian of Norway Aslak Sira Myhre, and others.

The workshop will take the form of a class. Participants will be assigned a wide range of reading exercises, as well as daily writing exercises. The aim of the workshop is to improve the craft of Nigerian writers and to encourage published and unpublished writers by bringing different perspectives to the art of storytelling.

Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship

Last updated: 30 Mar 2015 | OPENS 15 APRIL 2015

Stanford Graduate School of BusinessMBA Degree

Deadline: 15 Jun 2015 (Annual)
Study in:  USA
Course starts Fall 2016

Brief description:

The Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship Program are for citizens of African countries with financial need who wish to obtain an MBA at Stanford GSB.

Host Institution(s):

Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA

Field of study:

Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

Number of Awards:

Up to 8

Target group:

Citizens of African countries

Scholarship value/inclusions:

The fellowship covers the tuition and associated fees (approximately US $140,000).

School Enterprise Challenge for Students 2015 – $50,000 in Cash Prizes

Registration is now open for the 2015 School
Enterprise Challenge, a student-led, business
start-up competition for schools around the
world. The School Enterprise Challenge helps
students develop skills they need to succeed in
work and in life. The competition is designed to
help young people to become socially
responsible entrepreneurs, who seek not just to
make a profit, but also think about their planet
and the people around them.

International Association For Intelligence Education 2015 Essay Competition

International Association For Intelligence
Education invites entries for its 2015 essay
competition. This competition promotes IAFIE’s
goal of providing a forum for the creation of
knowledge and the dissemination and exchange
of ideas and information for those interested in
and concerned with intelligence education.

Blame game won’t solve xenophobia in SA

I often observe events as they unfold before airing my thoughts and position, particularly on sensitive and complex issues.

Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko says it is not necessary to deploy the army to deal with xenophobic violence, adding that it’s important to fight off xenophobic attitudes in society.

This approach has its own flaws, but it works for me sometimes, especially when you are avoiding exposing your lunacy so often. What works for me does not always work for others. This is how complex and diverse we are as humans.

Widespread reaction to xenophobic scenes (some call it Afrophobia which is not quite the reality I suppose) in South Africa (SA) provoked me to respond after some days as an observer and also listening too.

Vatican's take on US Nuns

Pope Francis met with members of the LCWR on Thursday

The Vatican has ended its controversial control of the main organisation representing US nuns.

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious was under close supervision from Rome after being accused of undermining Catholic teaching.

The Vatican said the group's focus was now Christ and faithful teaching.

The sisters were accused of promoting "radical feminist themes", but they argued that they were simply trying to do their work with the poor.

Latest on the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment

Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment last year.

The archive apparently includes Sony conversations with Downing Street and with Hollywood figures.

In November, the entertainment company suffered a cyber-attack weeks before releasing The Interview, a film criticised by the North Korean regime.

Sony said it "strongly condemns" the Wikileaks release.

ECOWAS 40th Anniversary Youth Essay Competition

The Commission of the Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS) is celebrating 40
years of Integration and cooperation in West
Africa, which has led to the establishment of an
economic union to foster economic growth, raise
the standard of living of its citizens and creation
of better relations among Member States. The
Commission intends to mark this genuine event
through a Youth Essay Competition.
The best two Essays per country in all the
member States will be published as a Book. The three winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) will be selected
among the total of 30 Essays. The Essays are
aimed at a broad audience and should therefore
be written in a non-technical style.
The General theme of the Book around which all
the Essays should be crafted is: Relevance and
Challenges of Regional Integration in West Africa:
The role of the ECOWAS Community, Citizens,
Member State Governments and Institutions in
enhancing this relevance and in Meeting the
challenges.

Kim Kardashian Uses A $45 Bar Of Soap On Her Face?

Ever wonder how Kim K gets that super smooth skin of hers? The secret’s out: she spilled that her fave method of cleansing is to use a nice and natural bar of soap. You can shop the exact soap that Kim uses for $45 here!

Kim Kardashian, 34, has to be drowning in skincare gifts, but she managed to narrow down her arsenal of products to one unbeatable face wash: a bar of soap! Read on to get all the details about the luxe cleanser that Kim can’t live without.

Internship Opportunity

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the world’s 2nd largest professional services network with a network of firms in 157 countries and 195,400 people.

In line with attracting the best, brightest and most suitable talent to PwC Advisory, PwC will commence the PwC Advisory Annual Internship Program with a pilot in July this year.
The Program will run - for (10) weeks - between July and September. The intent is to get a cohort with a mix of persons across the following categories:

How to install two or more operating systems on one PC

 

I thought I might borrow Lincoln Spector's brain to enlighten us a little on how we "might" install and run more than one OS in one computer. Now I used "might" because I am not going to give more than what Lincoln Spector of the PC World has written and so I cannot guarantee your success since I do not know if following instructions is your strong suit...

This tutorial is necessary especially when you consider how vulnerable windows operating system is and so you might want to learn a thing or two for it just might be what will save you from loosing that important project or document.

Adobe Youth Voices Awards 2015

Deadline: April 20, 2015

The Adobe Youth Voices Awards is a global, online competition that encourages youth to creatively express their vision for driving positive change in local communities. The aim of this award is to ignite creative confidence in youth around the world by empowering them to find their voice and make it heard.

Categories

Adobe Youth Awards accept media in the following categories:

1. Documentary
2. Narrative,
3. Animation,
4. Visual,
5. Venture.