Entrepreneurship
No. 152: Do You Need Blogging To Achieve More Speaking Success?
July 28, 2014









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I say YES, because to become an expert-who-gets-paid-to-speak, you NEED to establish yourself as a thought leader – indeed an authority - in the minds of your target audience. Blogging is a powerful (and zero cost) strategy that can be […]







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Career Development
To Succeed Despite Misconceptions and Stereotypes, Let Your Work Speak For You (2 True Stories)
July 26, 2014









Yesterday I had a Skype chat session with a Pakistan based Poultry Farm CEO, about my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager. At a point, he wrote: "it is good to see that kind of work from Africa"(screenshot below). I knew he meant it was rare to find an African based in Africa, selling functional, and customizable […]







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General
Achieve Parenting Success By Telling True Stories (Hint: About Your Childhood Failures & Successes)
July 25, 2014









I wrote my new book titled KUKURU DANGER™ for my kids. It's a collection of 4 TRUE stories about my trouble filled years between the ages of 10 and 16. In this article, I explain why I decided to offer it to other children and their parents. The book is subtitled "Adventures (& Misadventures!) of […]







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Career Development
People Who Take Without Giving Ultimately Hurt Themselves (Be It In Paid Employment or Business)
July 24, 2014









“After listening to each of my subordinates give me a self-appraisal of their performance, I have come to the conclusion that I have only three types of people working for me - Stars, All Stars and Superstars!” - Gunther Brink Do you justify the pay you get for each day you show up at work? […]







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Career Development
Readers Become Leaders ONLY If They Do The Right Kind of Reading!
July 23, 2014









Michael Angier once wrote that: “Reading can be a powerful catalyst for thinking; it has the potential for stimulating wisdom.”. I agree…but I would add that the "kind" of reading you do, will often be more important than the frequency at which you do it! For instance, in talking about "reading", I’m not referring here […]







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Entrepreneurship
To Achieve AUTHENTIC Success, Make Adversity Your Teacher and Friend
July 22, 2014









Some people (wrongly) believe delays, setbacks and disappointments should only persist for “wrong doers”. If such happens once too often for them to rationalize, they get paranoid. Then the “Devil” (poor guy) gets accused of trying to make them fail! In about 750 words, I explain why you’re better off embracing YOUR adversity! "I often […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 151: 3 Reasons Farm CEOs Will Succeed as Paid Speakers
July 21, 2014









The world needs Farm CEOs (who do what I describe in this article) to become public speakers and inspire it! If you could see what I envision, you would believe me instantly. But I know that’s hard for most people (especially farm business owners!). So, I'm committed to presenting and representing this idea in as […]







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Entrepreneurship
Back Good Quality Website Content With Delivery of Value Promised, to Achieve Web Marketing Success (Special Offer: Buy My Ration Formulator Software, and get my Poultry Farm Manager Software FREE)
July 19, 2014









Just like I’ve said in recent articles, the loss of my 9 year old spontaneousdevelopment.com on 4th May 2014, has not limited my online sales lead generation via my tayosolagbade.com, which replaced it. The number of enquiries has risen to the extent that my Website Conversion Ratio has actually INCREASED. This means that I’m actually […]







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My DN Travel News
What Do YOU Tell YOUR Child About Rampant Wrong Doing S/he Sees In Society?
July 18, 2014









I call it the 21st century parenting dilemma. How do you convince your child to accept that stealing, cheating or lying for instance are “bad”, when s/he often sees them happening routinely? This ranges from adults s/he sees (or hears) about in public office diverting state funds, to sports persons found guilty of doping, as […]







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Career Development
I Flopped Badly At The National Finals! (A True Story About How NOT To Prepare For/Deliver An Important Presentation) - with Photos
July 17, 2014









The lessons I share in this article are based mainly on a true-life experience I had, in 1997, at the age of 27. I was delivering a management research paper at the National Finals of the now defunct Young Managers Competition, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Management(NIM). I provide graphic details of how my […]







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