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THESE EXCITING TIMES

These are dangerous and exciting times. The tide of change is at the flood. We live in an era of impermanence, when the old institutions-marriage and family possessions, and position in the world are becoming increasingly temporary. Fashions and life styles are adopted and discarded, knowledge is acquired and outdated, ideas are used up sooner and faster than ever before.

Survival depends on keeping your head on your shoulders and your feet on the ground. You need your bodily health, your mental balance, and a sense of direction. We have been studying the art of survival mainly in terms of practical measures against the physical hazards of diseases, faulty diet, unhealthy habits of living, and today's particular stresses. This is essentially the basis for without bodily survival there is nothing. But we are grappling with the new ills.

TO BE CONTINUED.
All in preparation for the incoming year 2024. Happy New Year in advance.

Olu Olu Ola, PhD

SPAN OF CONTROL

The scalar organisation involves several steps or tiers, one above another. The number of steps an organisation has depends upon the total number of employees at the bottom to be supervised and the number of subordinates each superior officer can effectively supervise.

Then, how many persons work can a supervisor effectively supervise? This is the problem of spam of control. By 'span of control'. By span of control, we mean the number of subordinates an officer can effectively supervise. The span of control is related to the psychological problem of the 'span of attention'. None of us can attend to more than a certain number of things at the same time. The number to which one can attend is one's 'span of attention' applied to the work of supervision and control of subordinates.

There is no agreement among writers on administration about the exact limit of the span of control. Sir Ian Hamilton based on his military experience put the limit at 3 or 4 only. L. Urswick thinks that at the higher levels, no supervisor can supervise directly more than 5 to 6 subordinates whose work, interlocks, but lower down, where the work is of a more simple and routine nature, the span of control varies from 8 to 12. Lord Haldane and Graham Wallace thought that a chief executive could supervise 10 to 12 subordinates without working excessively burdened.

So, neither administrative theory nor practice can lay down a definite number constituting the span of control. Notwithstanding there are general points of agreement about the problem.

a. It is agreed that a span of control does exist at each level of supervision, and it can not be exceeded without the danger of a breakdown.
b. It is agreed and recognised that the span of control varies with four factors: function, personality, time and space.

Prof. Olu Olu Ola

NOW THAT IT GREYS
Symbolic!
Here it comes
Grey it is
Mixed feelings it is
Welcome to maturity
Reminder it serves

Reality of age advancing
End beckoning
End of all mortals
End of unworthy struggle
Struggles that never ends
Never End until the call
Return to the creator

Now that it greys
Manifestation uninvited
Uninvited guest of the aged
Aged in number
Number and wisdom

Salute I! My grey
Silky it is
Welcome my silky grey
Thank the creator
For the grace
Grace to Welcome
Welcome my silky, precious grey.
Prof. Olu Olu Ola.

SEIZE THE DAY
There is no "magic age" at which excellence emerges or quality surfaces;
1.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of independence at 33.
2.Benjamin Franklin wrote Poor Richard's Almanac at 26.
3.Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist at 25.
4.Isaac Newton formulated the law of gravitation at 24.
5.Emmanuel kant wrote his finest philosophical work at 74.
6.Verdi produced FALSTAFF at 80
7. Michelangelo completed his greatest at 87
8.Justice Holmes was still writing brilliant supreme Court opinion.
SEIZE THE DAY PLEASE! IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY NOR TOO LATE.
OLU OLU OLA.

Heartfelt Pain

Down my heart
The pain abides
Pain of old
Old so stick
Stick! Tormenting

Torments!
Of things
Things not done
Not done.
Ignorance it is
Ignorance!

Pains! Of Love
Love unrecompensed
Pain! Of joy
Unceleberated
Pain! Of help
Unrendered
Pains! Of trips
Not made

Pains! Of opportunities
Unused.
Pains! Of friends
Not made.
Pains of undanced
Dance.
Pains! Of care
Denied

Heartfelt Pain
Heartfelt groan
Groan of Pain
Pain of groan
Pain that remains
Groan the sticks
Groan and Pain
That burdens
Burdens!
The heart
Burdens!
Till the mother earth
Beckons.

Olu Olu Ola

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REVELATION

Of the Creator
that is one
Of the World
with her wickedness
Of human
so mysterious and unpredictable
Of Religion
so divisive
Of politicians
so selfish
Of peace
not certain
Of war
ever coming
Of life
so short
Of Death
very certain
Of Heaven
so preached
Of Hell
very scary
Of life beyond
man aspiration
Of Riches
so elusive
Of poverty
so real
Revelation
So it is
Of the wonders
Of this Comos

Dr. Olu Olu Ola