Entrepreneurship

[Now Available!] KUKURU DANGER™: 5 True Stories About the Adventures - & Misadventures! - of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life.

August 5, 2014

In this unusual book, Tayo Solagbade narrates 5 true stories about a dizzying variety of (sometimes shocking) escapades he engaged in – while schooling - that repeatedly landed him in trouble, causing his parents avoidable heart breaks. In the first story, Tayo suffers the embarrassment of having a female classmate falsely accuse him – to […]

Career Development

No. 153: A “Formula” Schools Need to Teach, But Don't! (FREE PDF Report)

August 4, 2014

“Any school that teaches this “formula” will discover her products – who apply it diligently – will never beg for jobs, or experience “unemployment”, talk less of poverty. If you think that’s a reckless claim, I challenge you to read this report with an open mind. Unless you detest authentic success, when you’re done, you’ll […]

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs Need Opportunities To Serve For A Profitable Fee - NOT Handouts Or Pity!

August 2, 2014

What would be your reaction if an individual just starting up, or in the difficult early stages of running, his/her business (e.g a book writing and publishing support service) approached you, asking you to consider purchasing part-ownership in it? Would you look objectively at his/her ability, the market potential of his (hopefully) unique offering and […]

Career Development

"Bleaching" Your Skin Insults Your Creator, and Makes You Lose Dignity (Message from Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Lupita Nyong'o to Black/African Parents & their Children)

August 1, 2014

One of Fela's most popular songs when I was a child was :"Yellow Fever" - released when I was 6 years old, in 1976. I LOVED that song. Still do too(see Youtube video below)! He was basically challenging skin-bleaching black men and women, who wanted to become "white" by force, out of an inferiority complex, […]

Career Development

Achieve Success IN SPITE OF Adversity - 2 True Stories

July 30, 2014

Adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD for short. That was the name of a terrible disorder that afflicted the child of an American woman in a film(based on a true story) I watched some years ago. It was an ailment the child’s doctors believed could not be treated. The mother of the ALD afflicted child was however not […]

Entrepreneurship

15 User Guide Videos for Tayo's Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager

July 29, 2014

Join my Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas club & Get YOUR Ration Formulator software, Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook & Poultry Farm Manager software! Signup at www.iff.tayosolagbade.com First Screenshot Demonstration Video of the PFM - Posted on YouTube on 9th Nov. 2013 [Over 23k views] [Update: Saturday 2nd Aug. 2014 - NEW VIDEO shows auto-generation of Hen Day Percentage […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 152: Do You Need Blogging To Achieve More Speaking Success?

July 28, 2014

I say YES, because to become an expert-who-gets-paid-to-speak, you NEED to establish yourself as a thought leader – indeed an authority - in the minds of your target audience. Blogging is a powerful (and zero cost) strategy that can be used to achieve that outcome for the long term. I say this as an expert-who-gets-paid-to-speak, […]

Career Development

To Succeed Despite Misconceptions and Stereotypes, Let Your Work Speak For You (2 True Stories)

July 26, 2014

Yesterday I had a Skype chat session with a Pakistan based Poultry Farm CEO, about my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager. At a point, he wrote: "it is good to see that kind of work from Africa"(screenshot below). I knew he meant it was rare to find an African based in Africa, selling functional, and customizable […]

Career Development

People Who Take Without Giving Ultimately Hurt Themselves (Be It In Paid Employment or Business)

July 24, 2014

“After listening to each of my subordinates give me a self-appraisal of their performance, I have come to the conclusion that I have only three types of people working for me - Stars, All Stars and Superstars!” - Gunther Brink Do you justify the pay you get for each day you show up at work? […]

Career Development

Readers Become Leaders ONLY If They Do The Right Kind of Reading!

July 23, 2014

Michael Angier once wrote that: “Reading can be a powerful catalyst for thinking; it has the potential for stimulating wisdom.”. I agree…but I would add that the "kind" of reading you do, will often be more important than the frequency at which you do it! For instance, in talking about "reading", I’m not referring here […]

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