Career Development
Achieve Business Success Using Spreadsheet Data Analysis & Reporting Automation









Data recording without analysis and interpretation is ultimately useless. Such data makes little or no meaning. Don't keep records for the sake of it. Records only add value when they tell us one or more of the following 5 things: 1). If we are doing well or not; 2). How well - or badly we […]







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Entrepreneurship
Proven Blogging Strategy That Works for Anyone Who Works it Correctly (Hint: How I'm Succeeding With My Blog Using Lessons I Learnt About Blogging from Patrick Meninga's Interview With Yaro Starak)









Last year, I published a post titled "10 Valuable Lessons I Learnt About Blogging for Passive Income, from Yaro Starak’s 60 Minute Podcast Interview with Patrick Meninga (click to read). By diligently applying those lessons on this blog, I've been recording a lot of success which I've described in several past articles. Not only has […]







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Career Development
How a Real Life Restaurant & Bar Data Handling & Report Generation Problem Was Solved Using Low Cost MS Excel-VB Automation









Mid-2005, Lagos - Nigeria. Kazeem(not real name), the owner of a restaurant and bar operation grossing a million naira in monthly sales approached his bank for funding towards expansion. Unfortunately, after some meetings, the bank was forced to turn down Kazeem's request, but NOT due to lack of collateral! He could not supply adequate and […]







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Career Development
No. 167: To Succeed Authentically, be a Model of the Possible Human









As an expert in your chosen field, your ability to excel will depend on how well you stand out from others who do what you do, in terms of the results you deliver. That means you need to be exceptional. But No One Can be Exceptional If S/he Chooses to Think and/or Act Small! Or […]







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Career Development
If You Never Stop Believing in the Creator, Haters Will NEVER Stop YOU! (True Story)









On 4th May 2014 my 9 year old spontaneousdevelopment.com was taken over by Aplus.net. But within a few days I moved my content to what I boldly declared would be a SUPERIOR reincarnation at www.tayosolagbade.com. As at October 2014, I’d surpassed ALL performance levels I achieved with my old domain spontaneousdevelopment.com. Indeed, with the exception […]







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General
You Cannot Pass Secrets of Your Success to Your Kids Via Osmosis









Successful people don’t always have offspring who do well like them. This often happens because such people fail to “coach” their offspring to develop their potential for greatness. Successful parenting demands MORE than that! I’ve spent YEARS doing lots of reading and deep thinking about this subject… My efforts have led me to closely explore […]







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Career Development
Being Self-Directed Will Help You Succeed Better (Hint: NEVER let people or situations OUTSIDE of you control you!)









I recently read an article that used these 2 interesting acronyms to explain the behaviour of social media users: FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out). In this article, I why the latter is better for YOU, PLUS how being Self-Directed will help you achieve it! FOMO is often felt by […]







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Career Development
6 Steps to Choosing a Competent Start-up Service Provider









Insisting on hiring ONLY individuals/companies with a client portfolio can deny you huge benefits. Every start-up WILL begin with ZERO customers. Even Bill Gates, must have had to find a FIRST paying customer or client! This article suggests other "indicators" you can use (aside from past clients list) to decide whether or not to hire […]







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Career Development
When People Do MORE Without Being Asked, You Commend them! (Hint: That's Smart Leadership)









[MEMO] From: Ag. Production Manager To: Tayo Solagbade Date: 9th March 2000 Re: COMMENDATION I wish to commend you for the contributions you have been making to our process control through comput(e)risation of operations. Specially worthy of mention is the ODBM calculation spreadsheet for Malta Guinness Brews done on 8.3.2000. I know you put in […]







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Career Development
No. 166: Seek Success by Being CREATIVE and NOT by being COMPETITIVE









    Publication: Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS Newsletter Date: Monday 3rd November 2014 No:166 Title: Seek Success by Being CREATIVE and NOT by being COMPETITIVE Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) ] Blog URL: http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets Archive (E-mail version started 14th May 2012): Click here to view Archive (Blog version started […]







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