Career Development
[Recommended] Telltale Signs You’re Dealing With an Emotional Manipulator
December 20, 2016









I've written a few articles (see linked below) on Emotional Intelligence, based on my studies of the works of pioneering experts like Daniel Goleman, as well as my experiences making conscious use of what I learned in the real world. This article (published on LinkedIn Pulse) offers VERY useful insights into the dangers you may […]







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Career Development
PII 045: Learn Spreadsheet Programming to Auto-generate Reports from Your E-Bank Statement [FREE App You Can Use]
December 19, 2016









One of wisest tips on business I ever came across was contained in the quote below: "Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two – and only these two – basic functions: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results, all the rest are ‘costs’.” – Peter Drucker, described as […]







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Career Development
[Coming Tomorrow] You Need this Custom Spreadsheet App to Accurately Analyze Your Bank Statement
December 18, 2016









On the 31st day of this month (December 2016), it will be exactly 14 years since I quit my high paying job as Technical Training and Development Manager with Guinness Nigeria, to (among other goals), pursue my dream of developing custom automated spreadsheet software for a living. I've since made MAJOR progress, establishing my own […]







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Career Development
Can You Deliver RESULTS When Failure Is Not An Option? [Hint: Are You A “Choker” Or A “Big Match Player”?]
December 15, 2016









[Tip: This post is a Content-Repurposed version of a 2012 issue of my (now defunct) Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter. Even though the example used is based on public speaking, the ideas shared can be successfully applied in any other areas of endeavour] In The Real World, Things Can Go Wrong - Sometimes Badly Too! Even after […]







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Career Development
PII 044: Successfully Influencing A Difficult Co-Worker, Colleague or Partner
December 12, 2016









[Tip: This "content-repurposed" write-up was first published on Monday 16th July 2012 via spontaneousdevelopment.com (my 9 year old former website - defunct since 2014] In order to work with anyone successfully, you have to speak with him/her. But sometimes that can be easier said than done, because the person we have to work (and speak) with, […]







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Career Development
FREE Download Gifts from TayoSolagbade.com for Farm CEOs and Others
December 9, 2016









Some of the downloads below were originally made available (for Farm CEOs, Website Owners/Writers, Career Persons, Experts-Who-Speak etc) via my now defunct 9 year old domain - spontaneousdevelopment.com - before it was taken over by Aplus.net (click to read story). Use the link provided below to signup and get download links to the one(s) that interest […]







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To Succeed, We Must Help Ourselves - the Government Cannot Help Us
December 8, 2016









It's time for us to wake up from our slumber as Nigerians and Africans. I mean that with reference to EACH of us an individual and NOT our collective identity as a people. I am self-driven, and have always believed no one outside of me (and the Creator) can control what happens in my life. […]







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No Experience is Ever Wasted - Be Hungry to Learn New and Better Ways to Achieve [True Story: How I Learnt Spreadsheet Programming as a Graduate Trainee by Watching my Training Manager DO IT Every Chance I Got]
December 6, 2016









Below: Photo of me (Tayo K. Solagbade) as a 25 year old Graduate Management/Brewing Trainee in Guinness Nigeria Ikeja's Training Centre - seated beside Richard Chambers, expatriate Brewery Training Coordinator at the time (1995) . NB: See 3 past articles at the bottom of this piece, in which I made reference to Richard Chambers) Today, I use […]







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Career Development
PII 043: Be At Peace Even During a Recession - Learn How to Print Your Own Money
December 5, 2016









Yes: M-O-N-E-Y! Everybody needs it, albeit to varying degrees. Big or small, fat or thin, old or young, arrogant or humble, religious or pagan, black or white or green or yellow. As long as you are a human being with blood running through your body and a functional brain in your head, MONEY will be […]







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Reading This Ultimate Story of FAITH Can Help You Succeed Everytime
December 3, 2016









Many people claim to believe in "God", yet their actions suggest that their willingness to act based on that belief they claim to have in this all-seeing, all-powerful being depends on how well what they are "required" to do conforms to what they are "prepared" to do. The same thing applies to the way they […]







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