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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Career Development
Get Excel-VB Home Study Tutorials Created Specifically for YOU!
May 9, 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! The best part is you do can learn from me in the comfort of your home or office. Anytime of the […]







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Career Development
[2 Part Video] Tayo Solagbade's Excel-VB Elections Results Compiler & Reports/Charts Generator - Based on INEC Nigeria's Summary of Results for the March 28th, 2015 Presidential Elections
May 7, 2015









In this 2 part video demonstration, summary reports and charts are auto generated by my new Excel-VB Elections Results Compiler & Reports/Charts Generator, which I built mainly to demonstrate how Excel can be used to boost productivity in everyday activities. [I began building the app around 25th April 2015. Today, 7th May 2015, I'm putting […]







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Career Development
Why You Need to Seriously Consider Taking Self Defence Lessons (True Story)
May 6, 2015









One minute we were all browsing quietly in the cafe. The next minute all hell had broken loose as a hefty chap put off the generator, then came in and slapped the smallish young man who owns the cafe! My mouth fell open as both men staggered out of the cafe as they wrestled, close […]







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Career Development
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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Career Development
Become a SUPER Accountant, Engineer, Marketer or Insurance Broker
May 2, 2015









Many financial reporting apps allows users to EXPORT their data into MS Excel. That's because it's data handling and report generation capabilities are unrivalled. But Excel is so versatile that it is also used for many non-financial purposes as well. Since 2004, Chartered Accountants, Quantity Surveyors, Insurance Brokers, Marketing managers and owners of SMEs have […]







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General
Insights From A Yoruba Proverb On Choosing a Leader [Case Study: Nigeria's 2015 Presidential Elections]
April 30, 2015









The following DEEP Yoruba proverb came to my mind few days ago: "Won ti ti òjé bo olosa lowo. Owa ku baba nla baba eni to o bo!" I explain below, how it gave me interesting insights relevant to General Buhari's impending presidency. But first, here's a not-easy-to-do contextual translation into English for non-Yoruba speaking […]







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Career Development
Don't Let Charlatans Mislead You (Hint: Seek Out Authentically Successful Persons to Learn From)!
April 25, 2015









Today I took my 9 year old daughter and her 3 older brothers to attend a "mentorship conference" for CEOs where they got to hear some great minds share TRUE stories about success and how failure HELPS to achieve it. I'll share details in my Monday newsletter to help aspiring/existing CEOs. Like I tell people, […]







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Career Development
Even When Competent, You CAN STILL Fail: 3 Abilities You MUST Develop To Protect Yourself!
April 24, 2015









People sometimes fail NOT because they are unqualified or incompetent, but because they are unable to manage themselves during hard times. They cave in under pressure. Our schools don't teach us how to deal with adversity. I think they should. It's because they don't, that many true geniuses in poorly regulated environments like Nigeria's, often […]







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Entrepreneurship
Automate Your Farm Records Keeping For Profitable Farm Planning
April 23, 2015









In this article, I explain the importance of establishing and maintaining reliable farm records keeping systems as it is a crucial requirement for successful planning & profitable management of your farm business. As they say, if you do not record it you cannot measure it. And if you do not measure it, you cannot control […]







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