Why Google CEO Larry Page personally reviews every candidate the company hires

At the start of 2015, Google had 53,600 full-time employees around the world, compared to 47,800 Googlers a year before. Not even counting replacements, that means it hired about 6,000 new people in just one year.
Cofounder and CEO Larry Page approved each of them, according to Google HR boss Laszlo Bock, who writes about Google's hiring process in new book "Work Rules!."
Page told Wired in a 2011 interview that he developed a formal approval system because while he hates bureaucracy, he wants the company he cofounded with Sergey Brin in 1998 to feel true to his vision as it grows exponentially.
"It helps me to know what's really going on," he told Wired.
Bock explains in the book that Google's hiring process is organized to avoid placing too much importance on any single judgment call. Rather than having only the opinion of a hiring manager or two, Google candidates must be screened by several hiring managers, their potential boss, their potential colleagues, a hiring committee, a senior leader, and finally Page.

Young Nigerian Business Owners Meet to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovations

Over 1000 carefully selected entrepreneurs made up of young business owners residing in Nigeria and in the Diaspora will be meeting at the NAF Conference Centre in Abuja from 3rd - 4th of August, 2015 for the debut of the highly anticipated Young Nigerians CEO’s Conference and Exhibition 2015.

How to Draw Your Boss’s Attention

Whether it’s your first job or your fourth, or you’ve been working for this company for many years, you may want to boost your career and get a promotion. Working too hard is great but it won’t help you get promoted fast. Most bosses don’t notice a hard work so you should be smart enough to draw your boss’s attention to your ideas and projects. Don’t run to an extreme, though. You don’t want to be too insistent and clingy. Here are some of the best tricks that you can use to draw your boss’s attention and boost your career.

7 Times When You Should Consider Quitting Your Job

Quitting a job is never a good idea, but there are a few times when you might want to consider leaving your job. You might love your job, or your coworkers, or even your boss, as I did, but if you are unhappy at work, there’s something that you should start changing right now. Life is too short to spend it doing things you don’t like and work for a boss who doesn’t respect you. Many people are afraid to quit their jobs and they usually end up going home each day feeling unhappy. Check out 7 times when you should consider quitting your job.

6 Ways Your Friends Sabotage Your Dreams

Friends make our lives easier and happier yet they can stop us from reaching our goals and making our dreams come true. They might do it unintentionally or they simply want to be better than you. If you feel as though one of your friends is trying to make your life miserable, it’s crucial to find out who wants you to give up your dreams. Once you know, limit the usual communication or end your friendship for good. It’s not a selfish decision. You live your life once so don’t let anyone prevent you from being successful, independent and happy. Here’s how your friends may sabotage your dreams.

Ghanaian millionaire quits Microsoft to build university that Educates young Africans

At a time when quite a number of Africans queue up at the embassies of foreign countries, with the hope of being granted visas into countries with ‘better living conditions’, a rare few like Patrick Awuah are sacrificing that to make a difference by returning home.

In 2001, after living in America for almost two decades, Patrick Awuah returned to Ghana, leaving his job at Microsoft, where he earned millions as program manager to set up Ashesi University in Accra, to educate young Africans. “If the current leadership core was educated a certain way, if they were problem solvers, if they had deep compassion for society, we would be in a different place,” he thought. Hence, Ashesi University is known for its innovative curriculum, high tech facilities, and strong emphasis on leadership. The University stirs a new path in African education.
In his TED Global talk in 2007, Patrick Awuah explains his call to educate Africa’s future leaders, and why he believes this is very important.
At the age of 16 in Ghana, Patrick Awuah had his first memorable experience of leadership. At the airport to meet his father, he is stopped by two soldiers wielding AK-47 assault weapons. “They asked me to join a crowd of people that were running up and down this embankment. Why? Because the path I had taken was considered out of bounds. No sign to this effect,” he noted.

The Man (Nigerian) Who Bought London’s second largest international airport

Up until February 2010, very few people had heard about Adebayo Ogunlesi. The Nigerian-born investment banker and money manager made international headlines when he led the acquisition of London’s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority in a recorded £1.51 billion deal.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is the chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based independent private equity fund focused primarily on infrastructural investments, with over $5.6 billion under management.

The acquisition instantly propelled Ogunlesi, 58, into the global spotlight and earned him a place in history as the man who acquired London’s second largest international airport.
The purchase of Gatwick Airport may have grabbed all the headlines, but GIP has some other noteworthy assets in its portfolio including a 75% stake in London City Airport, and Biffa Limited, a UK based waste management company.