Career Development
Science Subjects are NOT Superior to the Arts: The Case for Self-Managed Schooling









“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” – Albert Einstein Despite agreeing with virtually everything else he said in his THIS DAY newspaper article on the recent NBL sponsored Maltina Teacher of the […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Why Instead of "SELLING" Fela Anikulapo Kuti to Them, it's the WORLD - led by America - that's "SELLING" Fela to Nigerians!









[PHOTOS: A visit to Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Kalakuta Museum with my 16 year old son - who is named after him] In my 2003 personal philosophy paper titled "Why I Do What I Do, The Way I Do It", I wrote as follows: "In certain ways, I see myself as a non-singing ideological equivalent of […]







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Career Development
Choosing The Right Role Models for Success Achievement - What to Look For [Case Study: 21 year old Ibadan-based Nigerian freelance writer/blogger, who earns thousands of dollars writing for international clients AND also makes money from a Catfish Farm Business he started 1 year ago!]









Quick Take Away As far as I'm concerned, due to the TRULY international dimension of the success he enjoys as a freelance writer/blogger, earning steady income in thousands of dollars by CREATING 100% original value adding content for high profile and discerning international clients, coupled with his successful investment of his earnings to start-up an […]







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Career Development
The Missing Element Needed to Equip More School Leavers/Graduates to Excel In Life









"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic table, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity." --Einstein to Vivienne Anderson, May 12, 1953, AEA 60-716. If you are a parent to school age kids, mark my words: You need to get yourself firmly into […]







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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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