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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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Career Development
Home Study Excel-VB Video Preview: Save Money, Time & Effort Preparing Your Company’s Pay slips Using MS Excel®! [Parts 1, 2 and 3]
April 21, 2015









Subtitle: Automating a "2 payslips to a page" workbook into a multi-payslip generating app. Watch the 3 part trailer/preview below, for my Home Study tutorial on Building ExcelVB Payslip Generators, which is available ONLY to members of my Inner Circle. Part 1 of 3: Automating a "2 payslips to a page" workbook into a multi-payslip […]







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Career Development
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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Career Development
How to Respond if Anyone Tells You 'Spiritual Enemies' Are The Cause of Your Failures :-)) [ 18minute 27 second Performance Improvement podcast - Downloadable as MP3]
April 18, 2015









Listen to/read verbatim excerpts from my new 18minute 27 second audio Performance Improvement podcast (Downloadable as MP3 file) Title: "How to Respond if Anyone Tells You 'Spiritual Enemies' Are The Cause of Your Failures" Subtitle: "You Have to Work With God to Create The Miracle You Want" This is one of many in a series […]







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Career Development
Concluding 4:13 clip from Home Study Tutorial Video Preview titled "Using Index/Match Formulas & Sum Product Formulas for Report Generation"
April 17, 2015









Watch below, the CONCLUDING portion of the workbook automation tutorial preview video I created for the National Distribution Manager of a Telecoms Company in 2003 (This 4:13 clip inadvertently got cut off during editing: You can watch the BEGINNING at www.excelheaven.biz) Like I said in this concluding clip, what I offer are mainly home study […]







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Career Development
ExcelVB Home Study Video: Using Index/Match Formulas & Sum Product Formulas for Report Generation
April 16, 2015









Watch the video preview for a tutorial workbook I created several years ago, for the National Distribution Manager of a large multinational telecoms company (The Logistics Department hired me). Click here to watch the Youtube video and continue reading... [NB: If you want to get a closer look at the spreadsheet in the preview video, […]







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Career Development
No. 188: (a) Be Proficient In Your Preferred Language (b) Ultimate Marketing Strategy to Attract Perfect Clients
April 13, 2015









Imagine you were walking down the road and a haggard looking beggar, called out to you in PERFECTLY SPOKEN ENGLISH. Imagine s/he went on to state his/her request articulately, and in the manner of a person of fine education. Wouldn't that make you hear him/her out? Or possibly do more? [NOTE TO READER: This newsletter […]







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