Career Development
(FREE PDF) Using MS Excel® Solver for Least Cost Feed Formulation Can Be Easy - But Also Dangerous (How to Protect Yourself)
November 8, 2013









Everybody knows a little MS Excel. It’s so easy to use. However, I make sure to warn – from over 20 years of supporting users of Excel-apps I develop – that Excel’s “friendly“ nature is also what makes it a potentially dangerous tool. Especially for users with inadequate knowledge and experience, or indeed absent-minded competent […]







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My DN Travel News
We Need Not be Good at the Same Things, to Succeed!
November 8, 2013









"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein Remember The Above Quote EVERY Single Time You Think About Your Child When your child does not perform well in school, sports or any […]







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Career Development
How to Make Successful Employers Want You (2 Simple Steps) – By Tayo Solagbade
November 7, 2013









"All successful employers are stalking people who will do the unusual, people who think, people who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them." -- Charles M. Schwab You can get better career advancement opportunities from your current employer, and simultaneously attract better employers to come knocking on your door.  Simply implement the […]







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My DN Travel News
"Number" Versus "Quality" of Friends: Which Matters More? (Tips from Beyoncé, and Blaise Pascal)
November 6, 2013









Question: What would be the point of your claiming to have many friends/associates/relatives etc for instance, when most (or all?) of them are not true to you? For instance, they say one thing to your face, and another when you're not around OR they say one thing and do another etc. A Lesson About Truth-Based […]







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My DN Travel News
How to Tease Out Your Child’s Genius (3 Tips on how to be a "coach-parent")
November 1, 2013









Most people feel proud and inspired to do more, when something they do attracts genuine praise and/or rewards from others. Children especially respond quite well to timely positive feedback. This article explains how you can make intelligent use of such feedback (as a "coach-parent"), to nurture your child’s creative instincts, in a way that increases […]







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General
Proven Strategies for Preventing Infidelity (Hint: Why do men cheat on their wives or girl friends?)
October 30, 2013









On 22nd Oct. 2013, at 4.50 p.m, Edentu Oroso wrote…are men by their nature promiscuous? …Why do men cheat on their wives or girl friends?” See original post/thread at: www.tinyurl.com/edentufbk2 This is Issue No. 2 in the series on "My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better". For past issue(s), click here. [For a society to achieve […]







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General
An Eye Cannot See Itself (Hint: Are men by their nature promiscuous?)
October 26, 2013









"An eye cannot see itself. That's why it's best to look in the mirror often!" - Tayo K. Solagbade I always try to look in the “mirror” – literally and figuratively speaking – as often as possible. By this I mean FREQUENTLY doing a hard and honest self-evaluation. It helps me identify areas I need […]







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General
Generate Ideas to Solve YOUR Country's Problems (Hint: Time for a female president in Nigeria?)
October 25, 2013









Quick Take-Away: Come up with practical, ready-to-use ideas to help make YOUR country better. I practice what I preach - so this post announces the maiden issue of a PDF series I've decided to periodically publish, regarding making MY country of origin better. I am passionate about influencing positive change in Nigeria. And I have […]







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Career Development
Is Your Job Straining You?
October 24, 2013









Quick Tip: This article ends with a download link to the MS Excel template for my 10  item Employee Morale Guage Quiz, which you can customize for your use. People who don’t love their jobs are likely to feel this way (i.e strained) more often. But I’ve also met others who love their jobs, but […]







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Career Development
What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed
October 23, 2013









I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]







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