Adewale Fayinka's FBM Blog

It is that special season of the year, again. The countdown for 2018 is gradually coming to a stop. Festivities are in the air. People are bracing up to meet the New Year full of hope and great expectations. Every one dreams big for the year where everything falls into place. To achieve our dreams, we need to set goals and take action. Setting goals in life is a fundamental requirement for success. Setting goals allow us to create our future in advance. Setting goals helps us grow and expand, and allow us to push ourselves to transform in extraordinary ways that might not be possible without setting stretch goals for ourselves. We all set goals, right?  Every year, we start by making New Year resolutions. But how much of that did we follow through? Are you setting your goals effectively? Will your goals transform your life in the ways you want? These are the fundamental questions we hope to address in this blog post. Many times people think they understand how to set goals,

There are four key components to Emotional Intelligence. When these are taken together, they are referred to as Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQI). Emotional Intelligence is our ability to recognize and manage our feelings so that they are expressed appropriately. Exercising emotional intelligence help us create harmonious and productive relationships at work or in life.   Soft skills are largely accepted as personality traits, interpersonal skills, social skills, emotional intelligence (EQ), and more that drive people to operate. They typically compliment hard skills to help people accomplish goals and/or objectives. People who possess a high level of soft skills are more successful. They sell better, get promotions, handle people well, communicate effectively, and are just overall more important than those that lack soft skills. The famous adage goes, “You get hired for hard skills, but get fired for soft skills.” Businesses are stuck in a soft skills dilemma. They want

"We will take all your jobs.” That was Sophia, addressing an audience of 60,000 world technology leaders at Web Summit, the world’s largest technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal.  Sophia was an humanoid activated by Hong Kong's Hanson Robotics, a robot powered by artificial intelligence (AI),  with rubber covering instead of human skin, cameras controlled by computer algorithms, she can recognize individuals, follow faces, sustain eye contact, and process speech. She can have conversations using a natural language subsystem and had recently been upgraded with functional legs and the ability to walk. CELEBRITY HUMANOID ROBOT Within 2 years, Sophia had already accomplished what it takes humans a lifetime to achieve - she was named the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) first ever Innovation Champion, become the first robot to be honored with citizenship of  another country, and have addressed capacity crowds of scientists, business leaders and res