Entrepreneurship
Succeeding With Social Media: The Required Mind Set
October 29, 2013









Top performing sales people often succeed by painstakingly building trust in the minds of their prospects. They rarely adopt pushy sales strategies or hype. Yet, over time, those they approach loyally buy from them, and even tell others about them without being asked. That's why I'm a believer in letting things happen naturally. Be it […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 113: A Best Practice Strategy That Solves ANY Problem
October 28, 2013









Success comes via learning from when things go wrong, to be able to get them right more often. This applies to the expert-speaker who gets stopped before he can finish his “talk”, because he over-shot allotted time. Just like it does to the freelance writer, who misses agreed deadlines for submission of completed pieces. Such […]







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General
An Eye Cannot See Itself (Hint: Are men by their nature promiscuous?)
October 26, 2013









"An eye cannot see itself. That's why it's best to look in the mirror often!" - Tayo K. Solagbade I always try to look in the “mirror” – literally and figuratively speaking – as often as possible. By this I mean FREQUENTLY doing a hard and honest self-evaluation. It helps me identify areas I need […]







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General
Generate Ideas to Solve YOUR Country's Problems (Hint: Time for a female president in Nigeria?)
October 25, 2013









Quick Take-Away: Come up with practical, ready-to-use ideas to help make YOUR country better. I practice what I preach - so this post announces the maiden issue of a PDF series I've decided to periodically publish, regarding making MY country of origin better. I am passionate about influencing positive change in Nigeria. And I have […]







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Career Development
Is Your Job Straining You?
October 24, 2013









Quick Tip: This article ends with a download link to the MS Excel template for my 10  item Employee Morale Guage Quiz, which you can customize for your use. People who don’t love their jobs are likely to feel this way (i.e strained) more often. But I’ve also met others who love their jobs, but […]







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Career Development
What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed
October 23, 2013









I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]







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Entrepreneurship
My Pineapple Peel-Based Drinks Production Project UPDATE: Pilot Scale Shelf-Life, and Variable Cost-Reduction “Trials”
October 22, 2013









This is an update on progress with my Pineapple Peels based drinks production project. I’ll also be posting an update on my Quick and Dirty Guide to English/French soon. [NB: That next post will include details of how I’ve now partnered with a 2-man Beninois team of language experts to produce chapters 2 to 10 […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 112: Change Your Environment to Succeed - If Necessary
October 21, 2013









"America's environment is what makes achievements like Richie Parker’s possible".  That’s a paraphrased version of the comment made on Facebook, by someone who watched the ESPN profile video (on this facebook profile) of the armless 30 year old vehicle engineer’s life. I believe that statement to be quite right. No society is perfect, and America […]







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Career Development
NEVER Let Anyone Tell You What YOU Cannot Do! (Transcript Slideshow Version of ESPN’s July 21 “SportsCenter” Profile video about Richie Parker)
October 19, 2013









I created this PowerPoint slideshow (and published it on slideshare.net), to give people with poor (or zero!) connectivity, an alternative means of “learning” about Richie Parker. NB: To get the Power Point file version, CLICK HERE NOW to download it in a zipped folder (3MB approximately). === Read the article I wrote about Richie: It's titled […]







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Career Development
Announce Your Goals, and You'll Be Forced to Achieve Them
October 18, 2013









Just today, I replied to an enquiry by a facebook friend, about progress I’d made with my Pineapple Peel based drinks production project. He’s not the only one who has been asking me this question. Clients, friends and relatives have intermittently requested to know how far I’ve gone. Thankfully, I’ve always had significant progress to […]







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