Career Development
You Can Agree to Disagree and Still LOVE (Tribute to my father at 80!)
February 8, 2014









Photo: My father - Ezekiel Oluwajimi (E.O) Solagbade - cuts his 80th birthday anniversary cake on Tuesday 4th Feb. 2014, with my mom (his wife for 43 years now). Dad is a Civil and Structural Engineer by profession. I absolutely LOVED the cake, because it was beautifully decorated to depict technical drawing tools he uses! […]







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Career Development
Do We Really Become More Prone to “Forgetting” As We Grow Older?
February 6, 2014









In 2003, I wrote my popular research based article (titled “When You Grow Old, Your Brain Does Not”. It has since been republished via syndication on many websites. If you believe your mental abilities will diminish because you’re aging, think again. Do We Really Become More Prone to “Forgetting” As We Grow Older? In yesterday's […]







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Career Development
Happy 80th Birthday to our SUPER DAD!
February 4, 2014









By the time you read this, I'll be in Lagos with my siblings and the rest of the "Luwaji Solagbade family" to join in celebrating with my father, on his 80th birthday anniversary, at the University of Lagos. [Update (12th Feb 2014): Dad's 80th anniversary celebration went perfectly! Click here to read about/view photos :-))] […]







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Career Development
Is Your In-House Expert's Ego Costing Your Company Money? - Part 2 of 2
January 31, 2014









In this second – and concluding part – of this article (read Part 1 of 2 here) , I offer practical suggestions (based on the true success story of a large multinational company) about how businesses can help their in-house experts act, more often, in the best interest of the company. . The In-House Expert's […]







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Is Your In-House Expert's Ego Costing Your Company Money? - Part 1 of 2
January 30, 2014









“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us”. – Western Union Internal Memo, 1876. Isn’t it amazing how those narrow minded individuals who wrote that memo, rubbished an innovation that was destined to change the world? If anyone had […]







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Career Development
If Everybody Does It, Should You?
January 23, 2014









Quick answer: Not if it’s something that you’d be ashamed to admit doing to others not doing it. In this article, I discuss the tendency people in paid employment have of adopting a “herd mentality”, even where issues conflicting with their ethical and moral values are concerned. A good example which has bothered me since […]







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How to Achieve Self-Development, and Career Advancement Simultaneously (True Story)
January 16, 2014









This article narrates how(and why), after midnight of 14th November 1997, I slept overnight in a taxi at Lagos, Nigeria’s popular Ojota Park. I came in by night bus after closing 9p.m afternoon shift in Guinness Benin City, Edo State in order to arrive on time to participate in the National Finals of Nigerian Institute […]







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Career Development
Quit Your Job? (Some Web Marketing Ideas for Your New Business)
January 9, 2014









So, you finally bit the bullet and resigned your appointment with your employer after years of meritorious service, to start your own consultancy? And you did it while the ovation is still loudest? Good for you! Most people rarely get rich working for others. No matter what service you want to offer, the web can […]







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Career Development
Can You Be Trusted to Keep Private Information "Private"?
January 2, 2014









Let me be clear about this up front. What I advocate in this article is not meant to endorse covering up dirty deeds or secrets. In other words, bad things you may know or discover about another person that s/he may wish to keep away from public knowledge. For instance, a person who habitually shop-lifts, […]







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Career Development
Sell Successfully Using a Mailing List
December 20, 2013









[Quick tip: If you own - or run - an agro-based/allied business, the ideas in this article can REALLY help you. Trust me. I LOVE farmers - and would NEVER steer you wrong :-))] Are you responsible for creating marketing awareness, and generating sales leads for your company? If yes, then building a mailing list […]







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