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No. 103: On Being a Master (A PDF Gift from Burt Dubin!)
August 19, 2013









Download Chapter 1 of Burt Dubin's Forthcoming Book - FREE...below!  On Monday 12th August 2013 at 16.32, Burt Dubin emailed me the PDF version of the first chapter of his forthcoming book - titled "On Being a Master" - with permission to re-publish it with attribution if I so wished. After reading it, I decided […]







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Career Development
Error-Free People Rarely Achieve Authentic Success
August 17, 2013









"Success tends not to go to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk averse. Rather, it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal tasks.” – Donald Rumsfeld I […]







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No. 102: Succeed by Showing You're Special
August 12, 2013









YOU are special. Do YOU know that? Many do not. Yet, as an expert in your field, convincing people you can help them requires showing you are different, unique…one of a kind. That you are SPECIAL! People are attracted by that. But many experts do not know (or they forget) that they are “special” (every […]







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Entrepreneurship
Breakthrough to Purpose - Andy Brine Interviews Efe Ohwofasa (Verbatim Text Transcript Created by Tayo K. Solagbade)
August 7, 2013









Preamble: Why I Manually Transcribe Video and Audio Presentations (Especially Interviews) – By Tayo K. Solagbade The thumbnail image below links to a verbatim PDF text transcript of a 23 minute long video interview conducted by Andy Brine (of Become Authentic on Video) with Efe Ohwofasa (Nigerian born, UK based business coach) This is not […]







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No. 101: Speaking Can Make You a "Meaningful Specific"
August 5, 2013









Most countries will gladly welcome "foreigners" they know can bring positive benefits to their people and economies. A UK based Nigerian whose amazing success story I recently transcribed from the video of a TV interview (email tayo at tksola dot com to get a FREE copy) - coaches small and medium business owners across the […]







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No. 100: Nothing Can Stop YOU...Except Greed
July 29, 2013









This issue of my speaking IDEAS newsletter includes a true story of how, last weekend, a young man tried to “hire” me to “insert” an image of himself, into the photo of a giant aquarium he downloaded from the web! His purpose? To send the “Photo-shopped” version, with a quote, to a prospective client he’d told […]







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No. 99: Smart Experts Avoid Lazy People
July 22, 2013









People who display an attitude of rarely wanting to exert themselves to get what they want, are often basically lazy. I’ve come across persons with a history of having “aid” or “support” given to them for virtually every major area of their existence. As a result they’ve gotten used to always “getting”, even when they […]







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Career Development
FYI: If You Experienced Difficulties Accessing This Blog's Content between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013, This Could Be Why...
July 21, 2013









NB: Let me start by saying this post is being made for information purposes only. And it applies specifically to the period between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013. In case anyone's experienced difficulties accessing articles/content on my blog in the last few days...hostgator has now confirmed they've completed the migration of […]







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No. 98: Boost Your Credibility by Writing
July 15, 2013









If I sound like a broken record on how writing builds name recognition, it’s because I continue to experience amazing benefits from doing it. And I see others reap similar rewards too. IMPORTANT TIP: I discovered the power of writing as a means of self-promotion, when I read Burt Dubin's "Why and How to Get […]







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Career Development
You Can’t Establish Expert Authority with Money
July 11, 2013









In some parts of the world, some people get accorded authority status based on unproven wealth they display – and rarely little else. I grew up in a society where it happened (happens!)…a lot. However, authentic expert authority is not achieved by “showing money”. It comes via demonstrating verifiable, value-adding competence. This article provides insights […]







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