Career Development
No. 216: To Excel, Be As Proficient In Reading & Writing, As You Are In Speaking [True Story]
October 26, 2015









Quick Take-Away: This week, I use the true story [see video below] of a "graduate Teacher Who Could Not Read Her Own Certificate", to illustrate why - apart from your speaking skills - you also need proficiency in reading/writing to demonstrate competence as an expert-who-speaks. Hint: Teachers are also " experts-who-speak" (though most people don't […]







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Why Instead of "SELLING" Fela Anikulapo Kuti to Them, it's the WORLD - led by America - that's "SELLING" Fela to Nigerians!
October 25, 2015









[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
On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop : 2 Proposed Alternatives [1] Attend a one-on-one hands-on Feed Formulation Training session with me or [2] Purchase my Feed Formulation Home Study Video Series
October 23, 2015









Last week I announced the availability of my Monthly On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [Hint: FREE Entry for Owners of Tayo Solagbade’s Feed Formulation Handbook & Software]. However, in light of the VERY different date preferences being expressed by intending attendees to the 6 tentative dates I sent out, it's become obvious that […]







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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!]
October 22, 2015









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
October 20, 2015









"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)
October 19, 2015









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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Career Development
Motivational Speaking is NOT Self-Development Education
October 17, 2015









[NB: This Personal Philosophy paper was originally e-published via  SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom (now defunct) on 27th March 2003/Revised on 27th December 2006 by Tayo Solagbade - Founder SDAc] ***** It rarely happens anymore, what with my increasing name/brand recognition for what I do...but several years ago, it happened fairly often. I mean people calling me a "Motivational […]







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Making Nigeria Work Again: We ALL Need to Beat The Nigerian Factor (BTNF) ™
October 16, 2015









"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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[RECOMMENDED READING] An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!
October 15, 2015









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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Career Development
On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [Hint: FREE Entry for Owners of Tayo Solagbade's Feed Formulation Handbook & Software]!
October 13, 2015









Are you a Farm CEO looking to save money, and boost performance in feeding your livestock? If YES, attend my on-demand workshop to learn Practical Livestock Feed Formulation and Compounding for Poultry, Fish, Pigs, Dairy Cattle and Rabbits based on use of low cost locally available feed ingredients to formulate balanced rations. Since 2006 I've […]







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