ATTAINING ECONOMIC SECURITY
By Oyagah Stephen These are difficult times in the world-businesses collapsing, people losing their jobs and many losing the hope of better life as well. This has left humans pondering on how they can sustain themselves? For the employed, the quick fix is to completely rely on the company or jobs-work harder, get longer or permanent contracts and so on. For as long as the company is doing good, that makes sense but it all equals to short term thinking. Economic security goes beyond doing the right things in a successful organization, it includes a plan B. let me draw your attention to Lehman Brothers. Two years back, I decided to research about investment banking and it’s when I came across the Lehman Brothers. For close to a century, it was a leading investment destination in the world- a model of employee and business excellence. No wonder when the company collapsed last year, the world was officially declared to be in recession and whatever was left was t