Career Development
No. 215: Don’t Be So "Nice" That You Appear Incompetent (Hint: Sometimes It Pays to be Initially “Difficult” So as to be Successful Later)









When it comes to DELIVERING desired results, LOWERING YOUR STANDARDS (or COMPROMISING) in order to avoid being called "difficult" by clients (or representatives) unwilling to honour their end of the bargain, can end up making you look incompetent. In this write-up I explain why doing the above to please others is never worth it, IF […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Making Nigeria Work Again: We ALL Need to Beat The Nigerian Factor (BTNF) ™









"The Nigerian factor is what makes things that work elsewhere fail to work in Nigeria. It is also what makes doing the wrong thing acceptable, and doing the right thing condemnable" - Tayo Solagbade Below is a screenshot of the home page of my - now defunct - Beat The Nigerian Factor (BTNF) ™ mini […]







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Career Development
[RECOMMENDED READING] An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!









I never re-publish other people's writings on my blog, but I do link to those I find compelling. This piece by Olusegun Adeniyi titled "An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!" - published in THISDAY Newspaper perfectly fits that description: it is a truly compelling, and at the same time "painful" […]







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Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 19): Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop: FREE Entry for Buyers of Feed Formulation Pack, How a Ugandan Woman Became a Millionaire from Piggery, Mixed-Crop Livestock Farming: Traditional technologies for animal production, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF CATFISH FARMS : Catfish Growth-Cash flow MS Excel Models, Genetic improvement of indigenous cattle breeds in Zimbabwe : a case study









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] Preview: This issue of The Farm CEO™ announces my new on-demand monthly workshop for Farm CEOs on Feed Formulation & Compounding [NB: Subscribers to The Farm CEO get a 75% discount to attend the workshop, while ALL buyers/users […]







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Entrepreneurship
Tayo Solagbade's Farm and Grow Rich™- 6 Zero Cost Steps to Boost Farm Income: 7 Week FREE Email Auto-responder Course for Farm CEOs and Those Aspiring [LIVE from Wednesday 7th October 2015]!









After WEEKS of hard work writing it, I'm excited to announce my brand new first-of-its-kind 7 Week FREE Email Auto-responder Course for Farm CEOs and Those Aspiring (Based on my forthcoming same titled new book) Title: Farm and Grow Rich™ Subtitle: 6 Zero Cost Steps to Boost Farm Income Goes LIVE from Wednesday 7th October […]







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Career Development
No. 213: To Achieve SIGNIFICANCE in Success, YOU Need to Resist Corruption! [Feature: Strive Masiyawa's 5 Part Anti-Corruption Series on Econet Wireless in Nigeria]









Earlier today, Strive Masiyawa posted the first of 5 stories (view here) in his promised series on CORRUPTION regarding his experiences launching Econet Wireless in Nigeria. The revelations are shocking, yet instructive. As an expert in your field, if you desire SIGNIFICANCE in success, YOU MUST resist corruption, like Masiyawa has done for decades. But […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Spend Less Money to Eat Well, by Growing Foods (Hint: True Story With Photos of my Kids Growing Tomatoes, Beans, Pineapples at Home)!









[Photo] My 14 year old son shows off 6 big ripe tomatoes he and his 12 year old brother harvested yesterday (1st October 2015) from our small home garden. Another result of the real-world relevant confidence/competence building Personal Achievement Coaching (PAC) program he and his siblings are SIMULTANEOUSLY undergoing, in conjunction with controlled exposure to […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Your Child Needs Strength of Character to Successfully Resist Corruption









No matter how intelligent/well schooled, creative, competent, well spoken and nice a person may be, if s/he does not have strength of character, all those aforementioned qualities s/he possesses will not matter. Why? Because it takes having upright morals/values and strength of character to navigate the good and bad, as well as right and wrong […]







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Entrepreneurship
THE FARM CEO (Issue 16): Made in Africa Talking Cars, Animal Reproduction Boosting Extracts & Incubators by a Church Leader?!, World's 1st Fish Farm in Shipping Container: A South African Invention, New Innovations to Reduce Harvest Loss, Aquapod System That Can Enable MARINE Fish Farming by Africans?, Kenyan Invention: Egg Monitoring Kit to Check Egg Fertility/Assess Incubation Progress









[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ] Preview (Issue No. 16): Multi Award Winning West African innovator makes modern talking cars with 100% locally made engine blocks/parts; TVs controlled by clapping, plant extracts that boost livestock reproduction 4 times over & over 100 more. Featured […]







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Entrepreneurship
Authentically Successful African Billionnaire Shares True Life Stories In a Series About Fighting Corruption to Succeed in Business [Econet Wireless Founder, Strive Masiyawa Sets an Example Worth Emulating by Business Leaders Worldwide]









Strive Masiyawa, billionnaire founder of Econet Wireless recently began writing a beautifully eye opening and educative series on the subtle shapes and forms in which corruption happens in business here in Africa - and I'm ecstatic he's doing what he promised! Thank heavens he's a globally reconized billionnaire who rubs shoulders with authentically successful others […]







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