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No. 134: Don't Be a "Feel-Good" Speaker!

March 24, 2014

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack." - Winston […]

Career Development

Extracting Useful Lessons From Travel Experiences (True Stories & Tips)

March 22, 2014

Have you ever interacted with an unschooled, but widely traveled person? Stop for a moment and think about any such person you know. They often come across as knowledgeable, and self-confident don’t they? Now, consider an unschooled person whose soccer skills earned him a high paying pro career, in clubs around the world for years. […]

Career Development

To Succeed, Extract Useful Lessons from Your Travel Experiences

March 21, 2014

You arrive in a new country at night, and check into a hotel. Then at 10a.m you meet your business associate, for a meal. You talk business, and then fly out. Get this: You have NOT really "been to" that country! If your schedule makes doing the above necessary, I do not quarrel with that. […]

Career Development

Best Practices Boost Farm Employees' Productivity (3 Tips)

March 20, 2014

To run your farm business, you’ll engage employees, who will also document records e.g. feed used, eggs produced, stock counts etc. But a farm hand – or even the farm manager! – could (deliberately…or accidentally) make a potentially costly documentation error. S/he could, for instance, forget to replenish the stock of vaccines to be used […]

Entrepreneurship

Dig Your Sales and Marketing Well, Before You're Thirsty (For Income)!

March 19, 2014

On May 16, 2011... Prospect wrote: Hi Tayo, I requested a demo (ExcelVB software) download from your site and your condition was to add you as a (Facebook) friend first. Anyway hope to hear from you... Tayo Solagbade (Me): Hello P. Thanks for taking the pain. Can you let me know what demo you are […]

Entrepreneurship

How To Deal Effectively With Risks & Uncertainties To Ensure More Consistency In Your Farm's Performance

March 18, 2014

As a Performance Improvement Specialist, with a bias for Farm Research & Extension Advisory Services provision, I encourage farm CEOs to adopt what I call a BOPMS™ i.e. a Best Operating Process Management System™ for Profitable Farm Management. When implemented correctly, a BOPMS™ can - among other benefits - enable competent handling of the many RISKS […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 133: To Succeed, Find Correctly Motivated Buyers

March 17, 2014

Why do people who buy YOUR services do so? Do you know? In this article, I explain why knowing the answer to that question, is the key to your long term selling success, as a service provider. The insights I share can make you more effective in selling your services for the long term, IF […]

Entrepreneurship

Need Help to Raise Money for Your Farm Business?

March 15, 2014

On 2012-04-17 at 23:15:18, Obinna N., a Mechanical Engineer with a well known multinational oil company wrote me saying: “i have a plot of land and i have just raised 2 million naira to start cat fish farming please i need to succeed, i need your help in every way possible thanks” But I Never […]

Entrepreneurship

Update: Saturday 15th March 2014 Feed Formulation (& Compounding) Workshop

March 14, 2014

Around 12 noon today, Ekere A., a Farm CEO in Uyo called me on my mobile, here in Cotonou, to confirm that DHL just delivered the Feed Formulation learning package I sent to him. I'd had to constantly liaise with DHL (via their website tracking system and by phone) from Tuesday, when I sent the […]

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A Society That Does Not Reward Competence Will Develop Poorly

March 14, 2014

Chimamanda Adichie left Nigeria for the USA at the age of 19. Today, she's in the news again for winning yet another award as a writer. Isn't it wonderful that a person from just about anywhere in the world, can go to the USA, and succeed on merit? Adichie and Lupita Nyong'o are two great […]