My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better - SD Nuggets™

Defeat Traitors Using Compassion (Hint: Welcome a Judas into Your Life!)

September 12, 2014

FACT: You can be a genius and still fail due to a "close friend's" betrayal. This week, I'm teaching my kids about this. "Et tu Brutus?!" Caesar's famous exclamation is one of the classic examples of how great people responded to discovery of acts of betrayal by those closest to them. In my personal opinion, […]

Career Development

To Succeed More, You Need a Real World Understanding of the Meaning of Intelligence

September 11, 2014

We often hear (or read) this word - "intelligence" - being used in different situations by different people e.g an intelligent "writer", intelligent "student", intelligent "speaker", intelligent "artist", PLUS on a less approving note, an intelligent THIEF ! 🙂 In this article, I advocate the adoption of what I consider ONE all embracing,and real-world relevant […]

Entrepreneurship

To Succeed, You Need to Avoid Advice from Wrong People!

September 2, 2014

Who are you taking advice from in your business or personal life? Every day in Nigeria, and I am sure all over the world as well, people find themselves on the receiving end of advice from speakers, writers, presenters etc. On radio, TV, newspapers, the web, tons of advices are offered by (mostly) well meaning […]

Career Development

Protect Your Debit Card from Online Fraudsters...or This Could Happen to You (True Story) [Lost & Re-Published Post]

August 27, 2014

This article was first published on this blog 3 months ago, on Friday 23rd May 2014 (see browser history screenshot below). Today, when I tried linking to it, to post a comment on Facebook, I got a "Page Not Found" error on my blog. A MySQL database check soon revealed it was GONE: "Yepa!"! But […]

Career Development

Why I Convert Video/Audio Interviews & “Informal Narratives” by Other Experts Into Downloadable PDF/Slideshow Versions for EVERYONE – Tayo K. Solagbade

August 27, 2014

This new personal philosophy paper offers download access to four (4) useful PDF documents I recently created using videos, audios or informal "writing" originated by competent experts I reckon with. They are Efe Ohwofasa (UK), Patrick Meninga (USA), Richie Parker (USA) and Charles Ayo Dada (Nigeria). The first 3 can be downloaded from www.tayosolagbade.com. A. Breakthrough to […]

Career Development

No. 156: To Succeed, Always Count Your Blessings During Adversity (Hint: Would You Work At Your Best If Power Supply Was Erratic?)

August 25, 2014

I am not sure how many of you on my mailing list know what it feels like to endure YEARS of VERY erratic power supply on a daily basis from your country's power company. That's what Nigerians in Nigeria endure daily. During my visits to Ghana (in 2005) and Cameroon (in 1999 and 2001) most […]

Entrepreneurship

"HOW I MADE MY FIRST MILLION AS A WRITER SELLING BOOKS…" - by Charles Ayo Dada (Hint: This is the FREE Downloadable PDF version of his original Facebook post)

August 20, 2014

I like Facebook a lot, but I've had to develop a strategy to beat its habit of sometimes inadvertently "hiding" potentially useful information from those who most need it. A good example is the amazingly educative story told on 18th August 2014 by the award winning Nigerian writer, Charles Ayo Dada on his Facebook wall. […]

Entrepreneurship

Beat Competitors by Doing Things Differently!

August 16, 2014

"It should be encouraging to know that practically all great fortunes began in the form of compensation for personal services, or from sale of ideas. What else, except ideas and personal services, would one not possessed of property have to give in return for riches?" - Napoleon Hill in "Think & Grow Rich" Business marketing […]

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To Succeed, START Living in the Real World - TODAY! (Hint: And Teach Your Child to Do the Same!)

August 15, 2014

As I said in the research paper I presented at the Center for Management Development, a dangerous craze to acquire paper qualifications in order to secure jobs or higher positions has overtaken many in today's Nigeria. They have lost sight of so many things they can learn through diligent application of self-development. By "things" I […]

Career Development

To Succeed, Go Beyond Quoting Quotes

August 15, 2014

One morning in 2009, I heard the following quote (credited to a famous American celebrity) on radio: "Success is the result of good judgement. Good judgement is the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad judgement". The moral according to the radio presenter, is that FAILURES we go through in life (as a […]