Career Development
We Who Are Authentically Connected with our Creator MUST Remain a LIGHT for Others to Follow [Hint: Dealing With False Accusations]
October 31, 2014









How would YOU deal with a FALSE ACCUSATION if it’s leveled against YOU? If you think it can’t happen, you need to read THIS article! “All my life, I have been taught to take the high road, and never to dignify salacious or false accusations. And I have been taught never, never to lie. Not […]







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Career Development
When Using Spreadsheets - BEWARE! (True Story About How a "Little" Data Entry Mistake Can Damage Business Reports!)
October 30, 2014









My new Career Development book titled "The Workplace Warrior™: Using Smart Spreadsheet Automation for People & Process Performance Enhancement" will showcase real life memos (like the one below) regarding my informal Spreadsheet Solutions Developer role in Guinness. ["To: Mr. TAYO SOLAGBADE. From: PRODUCTION MANAGER'S SECRETARY (L). Date: 7th May 1998...] No one asked me to […]







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General
It's Not Always Smart to Follow the Crowd!
October 29, 2014









Everybody's doing IT won't always make IT OK! Photo: These "rear views" of 2 trouser-sagging young chaps in a Cotonou cybercafé I worked in recently, made me spontaneously burst into loud laughter, surprising myself and others! When they turned towards me. I quickly straightened my face, and attacked my key board with dead seriousness :-)) […]







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Career Development
[NEW BOOK] SPEAKING IDEAS™ - 25 Articles & True Stories for Experts-Who-Speak (& Those Aspiring) – Volume 1
October 28, 2014









This book (155 pages thick following typesetting and available in both print and digital formats) is based on a collection of 25 top performing past issues of the author’s Weekly Public Speaking Ideas™ newsletter published over the past 3 years. If you're an expert-who-speaks, or one aspiring, the unconventional, yet high impact experienced based ideas […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 165: Achieve Your Book Writing Goal Using This Proven Strategy (Hint: 135 Page Speaking IDEAS Ebook LIVE tomorrow!)
October 27, 2014









 [Photo below: My 135 page Speaking IDEAS book goes LIVE tomorrow] Most experts author books, to share their expertise and establish authority status. But writing can be tough when client projects demand your time. That’s why smart experts write their books in chunks e.g. an article at a time. I explain how... SCROLL DOWN TO […]







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Career Development
Find ALL my PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT products (Books, Excel-VB apps etc) in ONE place
October 25, 2014









This page (click) lists and links ALL my PAID products (books, Excel-VB apps etc) in ONE place - and I will continue to add more e.g Real Life Poultry Layer Farm Start-up Business Plans (PLUS FREE preparation service), Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager software, Ration Formulator software, Feed Formulation Handbook, E-BOOKs on Best Practice Farm Management, […]







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Career Development
Are Your Employees Happy & Satisfied With Their Jobs?(A Ten Item Quiz That Can Help You Find Out)
October 24, 2014









This article offers ideas developed based on a relatively small questionnaire survey I conducted in 1999 for a paper I entered into the Nigerian Institute of Management's Young Manager's Competition. I make no claims to having exhaustively tested the survey items for statistically significant relevance to all situations. My main purpose is to offer suggestions […]







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Career Development
Why You Need "Sales & Marketing Education" - Even If You're a "Job Seeker" or Employee! (Based on a True Story)
October 23, 2014









I sat down for one week in 2002 (my start-up year), and wrote what is now my popular Feed Formulation Handbook (photo below). It was based on my knowledge/experience as a key member of the self-funding Student's Farm Research Foundation (SFRF) in the University of Ibadan. But...my first sale did NOT happen until 2004! (NB: […]







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Career Development
How Exposure To Poverty & Trial-By-Fire Can Be Deliberately Used To Prepare People To Succeed
October 22, 2014









[NB: This article is based on lessons I learned from my real life personal experiences, as an individual AND a parent] The concept of "Trial By Fire" can be successfully applied in different social settings. The ultimate purpose of a "Trial By Fire" approach should however always be to help "participants" discover and/or develop FURTHER […]







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Entrepreneurship
Learn How to Achieve Superior Success as a Location Independent Entrepreneur
October 21, 2014









[Hint: If you're a YOUNG African keen to MAXIMIZE your God-given potential, I wrote this article with YOU in mind] Most people who follow my work online know that I relocated to Benin Republic from Lagos-Nigeria on 1st April 2013. From my very first night in a Cotonou hotel, till today, as I write from […]







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