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Help Your Child to NEVER "Need" a Job
June 27, 2014









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am now fully convinced that conventional schooling involves a subtle but severe form of brainwashing. And that’s why otherwise intelligent people who have undergone it sometimes display a baffling tendency to act like mindless robots! And they do so, […]







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Career Development
CEO Ineptitude Will Stunt Any Company's Growth (9 Signs to Look Out For!)
June 26, 2014









Since 2002, I have carefully compared my experiences as an entrepreneur, with my time in paid employment. Especially with regard to the most frequent cause of failure, amongst senior managers and CEOs of small/medium businesses I interacted with on both sides. I was shocked to discover that INEPTITUDE - on the part of these top […]







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Career Development
How To Make Yourself IMMUNE To FRUSTRATION!
June 25, 2014









On Saturday (28th June 2014), I'll be delivering a paid 1 hour talk to members of the Media Unit of an NGO in Ogun state, on the invitation of the CEO, who I met with yesterday, here in Lagos. Attendees will hear stories of exciting successes I recorded via diligent application of ideas I describe […]







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Entrepreneurship
Should You Sell 3rd Party Adverts Or Your Own Content?
June 24, 2014









Short answer: It depends. But in this article, I challenge Nigerians/Africans to do LESS copying and MORE creating of original content online, for use by others. For years, I've sold my own creative digital content to buyers in and out of Africa. (E.g my Ration Formulator, Poultry Farm Manager, Payslip Generator, and PDF Information products […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 147: Some Startup CEOs Fail to Do the Easiest Self-Preparation Needed (How to Help Them)
June 23, 2014









Over a decade of delivering Best Practice Solutions to Farm Businesses, has revealed one interesting fact to me: Many who own farm businesses in Nigeria, do NOT have formal training in agriculture. Yet, Despite Lacking Training in Agriculture, They Succeed! SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE Publication: Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS Newsletter Date: Monday 23rd June 2014 […]







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Career Development
The Secret to Finding the Right Vocation to Guarantee Your Success
June 21, 2014









It was on Sunday 6th July 1997 (my 27th birthday) that this photo was taken, with Nkechi (my wife), using my Olympus Stylus Camera’s timer. She was 22 at the time. It was our VERY first photo together. And it’s the one I LOVE the most! Tomorrow (Sunday 22nd June 2014) she turns 39. I […]







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Entrepreneurship
Conversation With a Prospect Seeking a Feasibility Study for a Startup Poultry Farm and Feed Mill
June 20, 2014









Based on this blog's schedule, I publish "Parenting" articles today, Friday. However on Tuesday, I published a "part-Parenting" article with a message on Entrepreneurship (Tuesday's topic). So, to even things out, I now feature my email conversation with a Canada based Nigerian, who wanted a "feasibility study/business plan" for "a startup poultry farm and feed […]







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Career Development
To Succeed, Develop Spreadsheet Software for Co-workers (Conversation With a Multinational Employee About My Practical MS Excel-Visual Basic Coaching Service)
June 19, 2014









This article features excerpts from an online chat session I recently had with a friend who works for a multinational, about learning to build Custom MS Excel-Visual Basic Spreadsheet Apps at work. It's a skill you can QUIETLY acquire, and use to attract career advancement opportunities of all kinds! I KNOW, Because I've Done It […]







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Entrepreneurship
Request My Report on Finding Bulk Buyers Online for Your Farm Products (Plus Read Answers to Questions You Have!)
June 18, 2014









Two days ago, in issue 146 of my Speaking IDEAS email newsletter, I invited Farm CEOs to request my new PDF report: "Secret Strategies for Finding Bulk Buyers Online, for Your Farm Products". Before that day ended, a US based Farm CEO - a long time subscriber - had submitted a web form request! Below […]







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Entrepreneurship
To Achieve Success, Be Prepared to Give, In Order to Get (Lesson from an 11 year old boy, and his 13 year old brother)
June 17, 2014









This photo, is of a handwritten “contract” of sorts recently sent me by my (11 & 13 year old) sons. It reads: “Tayo, we will do anything you and mummy ask us to do without grumbling, but we need a deal. The deal is if we do anything for anybody in this house without grumbling, […]







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