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A small business s guide to Peer Networks
The importance of peer group networks and access to mentors for business leaders has grown and developed in recent years, and in 2021 these groups will be invaluable as part of local support.
Last Updated: 21 Jan 2021
At times of uncertainty, especially during a national lockdown – and the ongoing pandemic, SME business owners should not feel isolated, they are not on their own.
By working with like-minded people who know business best, they can ensure they are getting the right support and advice to prepare them for future growth opportunities and to ‘build back better.’
In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Lere Baale, a professor and the chief executive of
Business School Netherlands (BSN) Nigeria, speaks about the importance of ‘action learning’ in today’s Nigeria and the challenges of running a post-graduate school during a pandemic. Here are the excerpts.
PREMIUM TIMES: Tell us how it has been running a school like this during a pandemic.
Lere Baale: The pandemic has brought about a number of challenges but those challenges also came with some opportunities. The pandemic made it more difficult for us to meet our students face to face but provided an opportunity for us to reach many of them at the same time. That’s now the case of a virtual connection rather than a physical meeting. The pandemic at least restricted the movement of people, but it made it possible for people to be able to have access to their lectures right from their bedrooms, their kitchens, and wherever they can have access to a phone or a medium. It’s a mixed bles
Trump’s right-wing rainbow coalition
Dec 16,2020 - Last updated at Dec 16,2020
BOSTON Although Donald Trump will pack his bags and leave the White House on January 20, he has presided over an authoritarian awakening among a large swath of the American population, one that will persist long after he is gone. As president, Trump not only deployed racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric, but actually baked it into his policies. Nonetheless, more than 74 million Americans voted for him in 2020.
Even more strikingly, exit polls suggest that Trump actually gained support from all of the demographic groups that he had maligned, insulted, and harmed, garnering more black, Hispanic, and Muslim votes than he did in 2016. Asian-Americans also pivoted to Trump, voting for him by a larger margin than they did for him in 2016. And Trump won around 55 per cent of white women in 2020. In two consecutive elections, the majority of white women chose a blatant misogynist
minutes before landing in the waters of japan s mainland in the country s exclusive economic zone. now, this comes in fresh defiance of tough talk from president trump who promised that the big problem of north korea will be solved. and just hours after defense secretary general james mattis set a conflict with north korea could possibly be the worst kind of fighting in most people s lifetime. the north korea bean regime has hundreds of artillery launchers in most densely populated cities on earth which is south korea. we are working with the international community to deal with the issue. bottom line it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat, if we are not able to resolve this situation into diplomatic means. the trump administration taking swift after action learning about kim jong un new