Career Development
No. 195: (a) Being Likeable Can Cost You Success (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
June 1, 2015









When defending his title for the first time, under his new name (Muhammad Ali), the crowd roundly booed Cassius Clay and cheered Sonny Liston. Yet Ali knocked out Liston in round 1. Some claim it was a phantom punch (but that’s a whole other issue) - MY point is that YOUNG Ali's self-confident, and cocky […]







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Career Development
SDAc's Microsoft Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic Club & COMPETITION [For Business Users & School Kids] - Download 9 Page Offer Slideshow
May 19, 2015









(a). The Microsoft Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic club offers serious minded business users a platform to learn useful spreadsheet automation skills using MS Excel-Visual Basic. (b). The competition provides such business users with a REAL WORLD relevant challenge that they can use to test their new skills, thereby building the confidence to deliver greater value […]







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No. 193: (a) Beautiful Genius Is Often Created from Crude Beginnings (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
May 18, 2015









 Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his public speaking prowess. But how many of us know that as a child, lacking access to formal schooling, Lincoln walked miles to borrow books he read, from the library? That disciplined self-studying habit was the key to his eventual success! It’s the same way few people know that JAY […]







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Career Development
What You Need is NOT Size, But "Fight" to Outsmart Bigger Competition!
May 16, 2015









"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight Eisenhower The Yoruba's have a proverb that expresses a similar sentiment. It goes thus: "Kekere ni abere nkere. Ki nse gbi gbe mi fun adiye." Translation: "Don't be fooled by the […]







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Career Development
To Succeed, Treat People Right!
May 14, 2015









"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people" - Thomas J. Peters I have major difficulty doing the OGA or BIG MAN thing. In paid employment it was so. As an entrepreneur, this "affliction" of mine has gotten worse. Owning things (which some use to […]







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Career Development
No. 192: (a) Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business) (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
May 11, 2015









Many people are truly GIFTED at ANALYZING what it takes to succeed …or why failure happens. What most seem to LACK, in my experience based opinion it the WILLINGNESS (and NOT the ability) to unflinchingly persist in APPLYING the insights they possess to achieve their (supposedly) valued goals. This is why so many people ONLY […]







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No. 191: (a) How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
May 4, 2015









How confident would you be if your plans were failing so badly that everyone around you knew it? What if you had a business setback, and someone who had warned you against going into THAT business made of point of stopping over to say: "I told you so"? How confident would you feel subsequently, about […]







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No. 190: (a) ExcelVb Business Contacts Manager for Speakers Marketers Consultants and Entrepreneurs (b) One Question to Ask Yourself EVERY 24 Hours to Determine If You’re Using Your Website Profitably - [MP3]!
April 27, 2015









This week, I offer you a tool to help you with your sales lead generation or client prospecting - useful for Speaking Professionals, Sales/Marketing Professionals, Independent Consultants etc. Watch the video demo below, for my Excel-VB Driven Business Clients/Prospects Contacts Manager™ - built in 2006. SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE   Tayo K. Solagade's […]







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No. 189: (a) Why “Made-in-Africa” Experts-Who-Speak Are Hard to Find (Hint: And Why YOU Should Become ONE!) (b) One Question to Ask Yourself EVERY 24 Hours to Determine If You’re Using Your Website Profitably - [MP3]!
April 20, 2015









A few years back, I read an article by a female IT professional who is an internationally recognized speaker from Africa…but whose business is based in the UK. She was complaining about what she called a dearth of “Made-in-Africa” speakers. I agree with her... Public Speaking is a powerful weapon for achieving high impact business […]







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Learn How to Make Microsoft Excel Do ANYTHING You Want, and NOTHING You Don't!
April 15, 2015









If you do routine data recording, analysis and report generation, using MS Excel, I can show you how to optimize and automate your work, to achieve HUGE savings in time, effort and even money! Over 2 decades of experience in deveoping custom Excel-VB Solutions for business users equip me to develop solutions for clients, and […]







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