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30/12/2023

SCHOOL STATUS REPORT
This is to document the physical structures, contents and the staff. It will be used to assess the educational readiness of the school to carry out its goals.

It will include:
(a) Physical structures

(b) Class content (visual aids like wall charts, murals and models, blackboards, dusters, desks, chairs, maps, flowers, reference books e.g dictionary and encyclopedia)

(c) Library (number of books, number of chairs desks)

(d) Laboratories and art studio

(e) Toilets are very important for cleanliness and sanitation

(f) Drinking water

(g) Sport facilities

(h) Active clubs

(i) Staff rooms

(j) Head office

(k) Pupils per class

(l) Number of students and teachers

(m) Teacher-students ratio

n) Exhibition Centre

The report is to be updated regularly to monitor lapses and improvement.

Olu Olu Ola, PhD, FCBA

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27/12/2023

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 Fashions and life styles are adopted and discarded, knowledge is acquired and outdated, ideas are used up sooner and faster than ever before.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

05/12/2023

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

16/05/2023

WHAT I DID NOT KNOW WHEN I WAS A MANAGER
Advice for young Managers

How do you 'get on' at work? Aside hard work and exploiting natural ability and emotional intelligence, what is the best way to climb the greasy corporate pole to senior manager and board director level?.
The two central tasks/objective for anyone in the work place are getting along with and getting ahead of your peers. The question is, how is the best achieved.
What advice should wise, been- there- done- that senoir executives give to their younger colleagues? Indeed what do they say to their sons and daughters at the appropriate time to help them benefit from their experience?
Advice of this sort comes in various versions;
I. Chin-up school of 'do your best'.
II. 'Play up, play up'
III. 'Play the game'
Others might indulge in cynicism suggesting various unethical, casting couch-type techniques to achieve one's ends.
For those genuinely interested in this issue, the central question is whether the strategy depends on the organization in short should the advice be different depending on whether it is aimed at;
People in big vs small, Private vs Public sector, tall vs that organisations... or is it the same for all?
While it may be true that corporate culture does affect style, it probably does not influence contents. So what are the seven secrets of successful young people at work?
1. As quickly as possible, become, or at least appear to be , indispensable .
2. Always be a committed, open, enthusiastic team player.
3. Work out the real power structure, establish useful alliances and find soulmates.
4. Be positive, don't whine and never get caught gossiping.
5. Know when to attract and avoid the limelight.
6. Manage up and across well as down.
7. Keep your options open your CV updated and your skill-set sharp.
Prof. Olu Olu Ola.

10/05/2023

PURPOSE
The word in application
Application to existence
Life in inquiry
Questionless is it
Purpose for all
The existential Purpose
Purpose of man's toil

Toil so exerting
So much!
So little recompense
Recompense so little
Little and Vanishing
Fading and temporary
Temporary!
And unreliable
Of what Purpose?
Inquiry unanswered.

The heart asks pleasure first
And then excuse from pain
And then those little Anodynes
That deaden suffering
And then, if it should be
The will of it's inquisitor
The privilege to die.
Prof. Olu Olu Ola.

08/12/2022

HIERACHY OR THE SCALAR PROCESS
Hierarchy means the rule or control of the higher over the lower- graded organization of successive steps or levels, in which each of the lower levels is immediately subordinate to the next higher one and through it, to the other higher steps right up to the top. In such an organization, authority, command and control descend from the top downward step by step to the bottom. It is an essential principle of hierarchy that no intermediate level should be skipped over in the dealings of the people at the top with those lower down or vice versa. Just as in ascending up or descending down a ladder, the foot must be placed on the step immediately above or below and no intermediate step can be jumped over without the danger of stumbling and falling.

Illustration below:-
Here A is the head of the organisation. B is A's immediate subordinate but is also mediately subordinate to A through B. D is immediate subordinate to C, but mediately also to A & B and so on.
In the technical language of administration the hierarchical principle is also called the scalar principles or process.
Prof. Olu Olu Ola

08/12/2022

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.

16/11/2022

UNIQUENESS OF A DATE

Today just like another
Looking ordinary
Yet unique
It's uniqueness
Not in the weather
No not in the routine.

The uniqueness in the date
Date that reminds
Reminder of the creator
Creator and His creatures
Creatures of which I am one
One created uniquely by Him
Him that is the unique.

Reminder of the questions
Questions that agitates
Agitate the feeble mind
Feeble mind that is lacking
Lacking in answer
Why is the question
Questions why I mean.

Why the existence
Why the trouble
Why the sojourn
Why the struggle
Why the cosmos
Why the joy
Why the sadness
Why the success
Why the failure
Why the laughter
Why the sorrow
All Why

Uniqueness of date
Uniqueness of Reminder
Reminder of a journey
Journey full of questions
Questions beyond answer
Answers that belong to the creator
Journey so short ,but look very long

Journey across this puzzle
Puzzle in all
All days
All weeks
All months
All years
Years I have been opportuned
Opportune to spend
Spend transversing .

Happy birth date to me.

01/11/2022

INTOLERANCE
The word
I proclaim
You exhibit
We express
When shall we learn
When shall the world learn.

Embrace one another
Embrace one another
Embrace not this hatred
Hatred of who you are
Hatred created by colour
Colour of your skin
Hatred of you,for your belief.

Hatred borne out of tribal call
Hatred borne out of diversity of beliefs
Hatred! Hatred! Hatred!

When are we going to learn
Learn that your colour is not your fault
That my tribe is not my making
That his beliefs is a personal conviction
That my colour I am free to exhibit
That his tribe, is his
Learn that my belief is personal to me

God you call it, Spirit I
Call it, nature they say it is
is all the way I see it, is
All the way you see it, is all
The way we understand it.
Prof. Olu Olu Ola.

27/10/2022

ELERINLA HILL

Having gone through the 36 states of the federal Republic of Nigeria, India and Australia, I thought I have seen enough of the wonderful works of God. But, when i visited this beautifully crafted place, named ELERINLA HILL located in Igbajo/Ikoro Road, Igbajo, Boluwaduro local government, Osun state, I realised more of the greatly we are naturally endowed. Talk of the river you go through before climbing,the rich vegetation around and on top of the hill, the wonderful flowers (including knox that is synonymous with Australia.) on the top of the hill and various kinds and species of animals and birds that move freely.
What a beauty to behold!

04/10/2022

NOW THAT CAMPAIGNS ARE HERE.
It has been hell on earth for majority of Nigerians in the last 7½years. Innocent, hardworking and ever hopeful Nigerians have gone through the most excruciating years of their lives. It has never been as bad as this honestly. With the exchange rate of naira getting volatile each day,corruption everywhere, insecurity, kidnapping and cyber crime replacing all forms of legitimate businesses, public debt hitting 42.84 trillion naira in the first half of 2022,oil theft of about 400,000 barrels per day and other mirades of unresolved problems. The campaigns must not be business as usual,where all you hear is only songs, character assassinations, political banditry,sharing of naira notes and other things for ,the ignorant, poverty striking,deceived and ever ready to dance women. Rather, let us begin to have issue based campaign,let contenders come out to tell us how they hope to look at Nigeria problems minutely. Nigerians need answers to so many questions .
Unserious and unsettled political parties and their members cannot provide solutions to Nigeria problems. Nigerians are not created to suffer or are we? Electorate, let us be alive to our responsibilities for once .You have for long finish the modules of rice you collected in exchange for votes. Stand up for your rights, you cannot allow another 8years of your existence to be wasted .Future leaders they called us when we were undergraduates, but now we are grandfather's .when will this future come?
Wake up! the time is now.i am just thinking aloud.
Dr. Olu Olu Ola

26/09/2022

EROSION
What I see is erosion
Rain of modernization
Rain of modernization
Dripping! Dropping!

Dripping and Dropping
Resulting in erosion
Erosion of our heritage
Heritage so precious
Precious and preserved.

Preserved by our progenitors
Progenitors who preserved
Preserved our heritage
Heritage so precious.

Precious they are
Our dresses
Precious they are
Our language
Precious they are
Our culture
Precious they are
Our religion.

Here comes the erosion
Erosion of modernization
Modernizationof Ignorance
Ignorance so cheap
Cheap but strong
Strong enough to erode
Erode all
All the precious.

All the precious
Precious Culture !
Precious Language !
Precious dresses!
Precious Traditions!

Olu Olu Ola

26/09/2022

ALONE I STOOD
Alone I stood
Stood when I arrived
Arrived the jungle
Jungle of inconsistency
Inconsistency in all
All that is called the world.

All Alone I remain
Remain to face the jungle
Jungle of uncertainty
Uncertainty from cradle
Cradle to the grave.

All Alone in the grave
Grave of loneliness
Loneliness of Alone
Alone that I will stand.

Alone I shall stand
Stand before the sender
Sender of All.

All that ever stood
Stood Alone
Alone for the sender
Sender who sent All
All Alone
Alone I will stand.

Olu Olu Ola.

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