KUFRE EKPO'S BLOG

                       #Lifestyle We’ve seen how American immigration laws have broken apart families, such as when some arrive illegally and have children in the U.S., and then the parent is deported back to his or her country. For authorized immigrants, though, there’s another legal hurdle that often causes heartache: obtaining a visa to visit the U.S. for weddings, the birth of a child, or other special occasions, which is often a very difficult process. This week, Fran Romano went to Florida NBC affiliate  WFLA with the story  of how her future daughter-in-law’s parents, who live in China, have just been denied visas to attend the wedding from the U.S. State Department. “She wants to dance with her father. She wants to dance … because I’m going to be dancing with my son, and she wants to dance with her father,” Romano told WFLA of future daughter-in-law Yili Lin. But as of right now, they can’t, because the U.S. State department decided that there was not sufficient evide

                                    #Business Stepping into an existing market with a new product is like little David confronting giant Goliath. But not everybody have what it takes to face the threat of Goliath in their business. The larger than life image of already existing and well known products is enough to edge out the new product that has all the odds against it. This accounts for why many step into business with a lot of zeal, vision and inspiration but later step aside (in some cases, step out completely) with frustration, regrets, and bitterness. For somebody warming up to start his business, his first decision concerns the product or service he wants to introduce. The decision is quite tasking as almost all areas look congested. But are they really congested? Every sector of the industries seems to be no go area and they are being dominated by the big and well-known companies out there. In 80’s, the movie market was virtually dominated by foreign vide

                        #Business Many people think of negotiations, and by extension negotiations, as showy and cut-throat; a game where one side wins and the other loses. So it’s not surprising that many people dread having to negotiate , whether for a car, a house, a new job or a business. But I see negotiation from another lens, as part of every social interaction. We are all different. That’s what makes life wonderful. So, in order to live and work together, we need to learn to resolve our difference in productive, generative ways. That’s what great leaders do. I’m fascinated by how people think and act in reaching agreement (or not). Everyday people resolve difference in many ways – both explicitly and implicitly. Whether it is a non-verbal understanding of who will walk through the door first; a breakfast dialogue to decide what a family will eat for dinner, the ebb and flow of a deep problem-solving at work; or who gets credit for ideas and wh

                         #Lifestyle T ruly, mature adult or the well-adjusted person fails as often and perhaps more often than the maladjusted, since he attempts more. He is far more interested in correcting the failure and learning from it, than he is in attributing blame for it. Therefore, he accepts the fact of failure, reappraises his goals and methods, and then either renounces, postpones, or substitutes satisfaction or reviews his attack on the source of his problem. Through all of this, he remains perfectly aware of “what’s going on”. He doesn’t try to fool himself. Why should anybody feel it necessary to fool himself or other? Why do some people feel dreadfully ashamed of failure, when other people, while regretting it, chalk it up to experience and forget about it? Why do some people go to great lengths to conceal their fear, when others, even in crises, may not feel it at all, but do their best and take what comes “like men”. Also read: 10 Simple Life Ha

                                  #Business Today, I am going to look at how people can channel their abilities best possibly to enhance their performance, irrespective of a kind of job or work they are doing. My post will focus attention on those basic factors found to be seemingly common to the high- level performer.Are you ready? Let’s go. Only a few people are sensitive to the fact that achieving success calls for much more than just doing a good job. Most men find that they fall far short of being where they want to be at any particular time. Then too, they find that they aren’t making full of their capabilities . Literally surrounded by unused abilities, they watch others moving ahead faster. Faced with this frustrating situation, they ask themselves, “why?” For the most part, the problem lies in the fact that men are trained to perform specializes functions but are not trained to make effective use of their talents. The man will only take time to develop