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NEW: Subscribe to “THE FARM CEO: A “Small” Niche Digital/Print Newspaper for Farm Business Owners

[Update: Cover for Issue 02 added] On Monday 8th June 2015, I’ll publish the maiden issue of Self-Development Academy’s “THE FARM CEO:” a “small” niche digital newspaper (which will be available in PRINT to interested subscribers).

Below is a screenshot of a teaser preview.

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I serve a growing base of mainly Farm Business CEOs. This newspaper aims to help them do what they do better.

Every week, it will serve them results from research and investigations I conduct into ideas and strategies/latest findings for farm business improvement.

To subscribe, EACH intending reader must provide satisfactory proof that s/he runs (or has plans to establish) a REAL life farm business.

It does not matter what part of the world you are based.

I have farm CEO clients from in and out of Africa – as far as North America and the UAE – and I guarantee they WILL also find this paper’s contents useful.

What is important is that you contact me, indicating your interest in getting a copy.

Note that you will receive the first issue FREE – digitally. Subsequently, you will be required to subscribe at $3 USD per month, to continue receiving weekly issues.

If you wish, the PRINT copies will be mailed to you via post (terms apply).

CONTENT (WHAT TO EXPECT)

Subscribers to this newspaper will receive my reviews of news compiled from research and other industry sources, both on and off the web (including farm visits I do as I travel across West Africa).

In other words, you will get access to ready to use information and education from stakeholders across the world, delivered to you via this paper. This will give you smart ideas of what’s working and how to apply it to make your farm business succeed more. If you had to do this yourself, it would take you MUCH more time, effort & money!

ADVERTS

Advert spaces available for purchase by farms & providers of all genres e.g.  Consultants, raw materials/feed suppliers, equipment suppliers, disease diagnostic service providers etc

For details about subscribing or advertising, click here to contact me.

SOFTWARE/PRODUCTS

All my existing farm business support products including my popular Feed Formulation Handbook, Ration Formulator Software, Poultry Farm Manager Etc will be periodically offered at special discount prices.

THE VISION

This publication will run into at least 2 or more pages, per issue, depending on the volume of useful news  to be served. Note that where relevant URLs to relevant sources for further reading will be provided.

My vision is to make this the No. 1 most reliable compilation for Farm CEOs.

COST-SAVING FARM BIZ SUPPORT

SDAc’s Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas mini site offers custom best practice farm management systems (and software) development at affordable rates to farm owners in Nigeria/Africa.  Ours is a new, unconventional, but practical approach to provision of Modern Extension Services for farm businesses in this part of the world.

We work with crop and/or livestock farmers to develop and implement intelligent decision making systems that help their farm businesses become more efficient and profitable, through low cost adaptation of technology, while building on indigenous knowledge systems.

Visit www.iff.tayosolagbade.com or www.boostyourfarmprofits.biz. Connect with us on our Facebook page at www.tinyurl.com/TksFarmBizIdeas

For details about subscribing or advertising, click here to contact me.

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 02 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 15th June 2015) – this is the formal look for the newspaper.

creenshot of the cover for Issue No. 02 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 15th June 2015) - this is the formal look for the newspaper

For details about subscribing or advertising, click here to contact me.

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This morning I had an interesting phone conversation with a Poultry Farm CEO based in an East African country. He’d emailed me yesterday about my Feed Formulation Handbook, Ration Formulator and Poultry Farm Manager apps.

After requesting price details, before ending the call, he expressed interest in promoting my products to other buyers in his country. That appealed instantly to me because teaming up with others to boost my marketing reach/impact is one of the main objectives I have!

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You will learn to automate MS Excel using Visual Basic programming – and that would make you look good in paid employment, and you can earn income by selling your Excel-VB apps like I do!

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Feed Compounding With Indomie Noodles Factory Waste Can Save YOUR Farm’s Profits

Several years ago, Ben Oshionya, a Farm CEO based on the outskirts of Portharcourt-Nigeria, who had purchased my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software got in touch again via phone a week later.

He wanted to know how he could use Indomie noodles waste (from the manufacturer’s factory process), to compound feed for his fish.

Past visits to various farms had already led me to discover a recent trend in which many local pig and fish farmers (in particular) out here, use this low cost by product to boost growth of their animals by incorporating it in the rations they serve them.

Poultry, fish and pig farmers in particular were using it to boost the energy content of their feed, and in some cases for “fattening” purposes.

I also knew from visits to feed mills, that it was readily available for purchase along with other “traditional” feed ingredients.

This made it easy for me to later on that night send him the following text message via my mobile:

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“Calculating with information printed on the wrapper of a 70g pack, you find that Indomie noodles has about 71% carbohydrate content(7% being sugar), 9% protein, and 17% fat.

When used in compounded feed, it boosts growth – especially for fingerlings, I am told. Sells for about N50 per kilogram in feed mills.

You can use it to replace some of the maize and other carbohydrate sources in your ration. Watch the fat. tayo.”

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NB: The above message was sent in 2008. It goes without saying that the prices stated will have changed as of now – 28th May 2015 (7 years on).

In sending him the information, I knew he would follow the Pearson Square Computation method described in my handbook that he’d purchased.

Since Ben already owned a copy of my feed formulation handbook, it was logical to expect that the above would not be difficult for him to do successfully.

Basically, he would incorporate the appropriate quantity of noodles waste into the rations to be fed to the animals (after posting the relevant nutrient composition into the ingredients table provided in the software).

That way he would be able to MEASURE what he used and compare with the performance of the animals, as a guide to deciding on further/future use.

I told him to let me know if he encountered any problems. I did not hear from him, so it’s likely he got on well.

Since then I’ve had similar experiences with other buyers of the handbook and software.

Feed compounding is the art of producing healthy least cost (NOT lowest cost) BALANCED livestock feed/rations using the science of Feed Formulation (e.g. via methods like Pearson Square Computation. Linear Programming and others)

Are you considering trying out alternative feed ingredients for your animal feeds so as to save costs and get better performance from your animals?

An intelligent and cost effective/safe way to proceed would be to use a software, like my Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator, on sale since 2004.

But you need a sound knowledge of the practical feed formulation and compounding, to succeed – whether you use a software or do it manually.

This is why I always recommend that buyers of my software, who lack good understanding of feed formulation and compounding, also purchase my 60-page Practical Livestock Feed Formulation handbook.

It provides step-by-step explanations about how to compound your own cost-effective rations for your farm animals.

Visit my Cost Saving Farm Business Ideas website (click) to learn more about my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software.

Click here to watch 4 videos showing the Ration Formulator in use.

Click here to buy the Feed Formulation Handbook from my online store.

To buy the Feed Formulation Handbook and/or Software, request payment details by using this web form to contact me.

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Replacement of maize with graded levels of noodle waste in commercial diet of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus).

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To Succeed You Need Best Practice Systems For Your (Farm) Business Processes

Are you CEO of a Farm business, or any other small, medium, large or multinational manufacturing company? Then you must know that the MOST IMPORTANT goal of your BUSINESS is to make money: That happens via increasing net profit while simultaneously increasing Return On Investment (ROI) and Cash Flow?

The above mentioned are 3 crucial measurements to evaluate your progress – at the TOP decision making level of your company!

For the lower level operatives on the shop floor, however, you WILL often need to find measurements which explain the GOAL of making money (by being productive) perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop OPERATIONAL RULES for managing your processes.

So your business’ goal stated in the above paragraph could be translated – for use on the shop floor/in the market – as: to make money by increasing THROUGHPUT (i.e. the rate at which products are manufactured AND sold) while simultaneously reducing INVENTORY and OPERATING EXPENSE.

Are you consistently able to get YOUR in-demand quality product manufactured and into the market on time at the cost that can beat the competition? A BOPMS™ (i.e. Best Operating Process Management System™) can help you become able to say YES anytime you consider that question.

The process involved in establishing/entrenching BOPMS™ in your process will help you derive those measures you need and test them for use successfully in productively managing your plant.

Successfully entrenching a BOPMS™ in your company will also make you MUCH better prepared to qualify for best practice accreditation should you wish to go for it (Contact me and I will explain why/how).

You must however LEARN how to do the THINKING for yourself, so that SUBSEQUENTLY, after I step back, you can competently develop your BOPMS™ further over time, as changes that inevitably take place WILL CONTINUALLY force you to evolve IMPROVED methods/approaches. (Re: Continuous Improvement).

My approach to Best Practice systems development is designed to eliminate non-essential elements of the traditional methods in order to help the willing client SAVE money and time in adopting it for his/her use.

From observing businesses operating in our local environment over the years, I have become convinced that a quicker/shorter but VERY customised version of the Best Practice system implementation will WORK if properly executed.

My BOPMS™ components checklist is designed to help the client make cost-effective choices that will ensure s/he gets exactly what works best for his/her process.

Contact me, if you want to learn more about how I can help your company achieve the ultimate goal described above.

In case you nurse fear that this could be a waste of time, I will add two things:

1). My fees are affordable but NOT cheap. That is why I accept enquiries ONLY from the business owner – who takes the final decisions.

2). In the past, I implemented a BOPMS™ – which included a 2-day Generic training for factory operatives – for a Lagos based manufacturing company, and have worked closely with the Managing Director and the factory staff over a two week period.

The results already achieved attest to my claims. Contact me, and I will elaborate.

No. 194: How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story]

To succeed as an expert-who-speaks, you need a website. Actually, a Web Marketing System (WMS) will serve you better. I share the true story of how a new client paid for my website’s hosting renewal via a barter exchange – after a standby payment arrangement that had been in place for 4 years, failed to go through!

This dramatic series of events that lasted nearly three weeks too place between April and May 2009, regarding my former 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com.

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Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS Newsletter

Date: Monday 18th May 2015

No:193

Title: (a) How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story] (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story]

To succeed as an expert-who-speaks, you need a website. Actually, a Web Marketing System (WMS) will serve you better. I share the true story of how a new client paid for my website’s hosting renewal via a barter exchange – after a standby payment arrangement that had been in place for 4 years, failed to go through!

This dramatic series of events that lasted nearly three weeks too place between April and May 2009, regarding my former 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com.

I had a premonition towards the end of April, that it would be smart to make alternative arrangements to get payment

for my site’s renewal in May 2019, so I started the process of opening a domicillary account with a bank here in Lagos.

It took some running around to meet all the bank’s requirements, but I eventually did.

Unfortunately, some days to the renewal date, I got an email from the bank saying my accound had been blocked for some reason I did not care to even call them about.

On the due date (2nd May), the credit card attached to my account

– belonging to a friend in the USA (and which had been used for 4 previous renewals since 2005), failed when it was charged for that year (the 5th). I got an auto-email from (web host name removed)

to that effect.

So, what did I do? Well, I have always been a business to business barter exchange enthusiast, and have often offered clients the opportunity to save cash by paying for my services in kind.

(For instance, I once had a client who paid about 50% of my fees by printing one of my t-shirt designs on to t-shirts for kids. Visit www.cafepress.com/ezeartsonline to see the Eyo Masquerade designs used on the T-Shirts.

What I did was to offer a prospective client I was discussing with in the last week of April, a discount, and some other incentives, to use his domicillary account to transfer the required amount (approx $130 excl. charges which amounted to almost $50 at the end) to

(web host name removed).

And he agreed. In fact, two days later (after crediting the required dollar amount to the account), he did the transfer. I subsequently followed up with

(web host name removed).

But alas, all did not turn out well.

After a series of enquiries (back and forth email messages and chat discussions), over a number of days, we finally discovered that a certain off-shore charge had not been provided for by my client in the total amount he sent, which led to the money that got to

(web host name removed) being lower than my renewal fees.

By this time, my site had gone offline as a result of the non-renewal.

But things have a way of working themselves out.

In what was a wonderful coincidence (and reversal of fortunes), my new client pointed out that he would be leaving for the USA to attend a course, and could easily send over any balance if I let him know the outcome of my discussions with.

THAT was exactly what happened.

I had one final chat session with another

agent of the hosting company, and I verified the remaining amount to be sent over to complete my payment. I emailed my client the details in Atlanta, and he sent another wire transfer from his US bank to (web host name removed)’s bank in Kansas.

48 Hours later, my site was back online, and I sent him the following email:

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Re: You did it – BIG Thanks, Man!

Saturday, May 16, 2009 5:44 PM

From:

To:

Elvis,

Just a quick note to say thanks for your efforts to make this come to pass – as it has.

have re-instated the site and updated my account. Hurry up and come back, so I can start showing what I am also made of, by keeping my own end of the bargain!……

Have a great time out there and don’t forget to bring some “puff puff” O!

Cheers,tayo

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And he replies me with this email:

Re: You did it – BIG Thanks, Man!

Monday, May 18, 2009 5:00 PM

From:

To:

Tayo,

No wahala!

How u dey? I travelled to Virginia Beach…just came to Atlanta. Will be back by the weekend.

Cheers.Name deleted

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Now, do the above sound like exchanges between two people doing business or between two friends? I’m sure you will choose the latter.

Consider also the fact that this chap had already made payments to me in Naira for some part of the work I was doing for him at the time, even though the bulk of it would only begin when he returned.

That should convince you that what I have said in many of my past articles about the principles described in the “Science of Getting Rich” e-book really works.

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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it has MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them. You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

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2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in current affairs and politics, because those are the two key ingredients that really keep this country from having a stable sociopolitical climate.
And for as long as that stable sociopolitical climate does not exist, every person running a business will probably have to sleep with one eye open.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

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Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

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Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings, and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

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Have a great week :-))

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*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to start his own business).

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Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting,

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

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Is YOUR Employee Screaming For Help Without Being Heard?

This is not a lengthy piece (at 470 words) but I think the message it carries is quite weighty.

Many times in large (and even small) organisations, “office politics” if allowed to get out of hand can lead to some VERY talented and creative members of the team getting frustrated to the point that they LEAVE the organisations or become subdued and fall into a “depression” of sorts.

I have always been a believer in the philosophy of MAINTAINING and building up employee/workforce morale without necessarily having to resort to MONETARY incentives.

Some business owners and managers however think they can DEMAND commitment and compliance from their workers without making the latter FEEL their is a good reason to act accordingly.

It is my considered opinion that EVERY manager or business has the RESPONSIBILTY to check and ensure the right atmosphere and environment exists for EACH member of the organisation, regardless of rank or position to perform to the best of his/her ability – and ENJOY doing so.

Sadly, in many companies today, we have many unhappy and de motivated employees working for insensitive managers and business owners. The letter I reproduce below is a perfect example of what can result if a situation like that is allowed to persist.

As you read this ALARMING letter from an employee who cried out form “help”, the question I want you to ask yourself is what can YOU do to ensure NO ONE in your company or under your supervision EVER feels a need to write such a letter to ANYONE – your boss or yourself!

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From: Name Deleted

Re: Oppression And Destruction

In recent weeks, my boss…..(name deleted)…has unleashed several sudden unprovoked attacks (both verbal and written) on my person, and under the guise of “job demands”.

After much self restraint to keep relationships unstrained in the interest of the job, I have now been compelled to cry out because the way and manner these attacks are coming clearly reveal some ulterior motive behind his actions.

While I would like to believe and be assured that this is not a deliberate attempt calculated at damaging my reputation, and to destroy my career prospects in the company after over eleven (11) good years or hard work, dedication, and devotion to duty, in view of the recent bias, I would be most grateful, if in the interest of peace, justice and fair play, a quick and detailed investigation is allowed into this matter in order to avert any unpleasant circumstance in the near future, for God’s sake.

Thanks, in anticipation of a timely intervention.

Yours faithfully,

Signed (Name Deleted)

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To Succeed, Treat People Right!

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people” – Thomas J. Peters

I have major difficulty doing the OGA or BIG MAN thing. In paid employment it was so. As an entrepreneur, this “affliction” of mine has gotten worse. Owning things (which some use to SHOW they are OGA), also bores me. I guess I’m some kind of incurable minimalist!

But I LIKE being the way I am – because I find it helps me to stay grounded. To keep my head from getting swollen, so I can stay focussed on what really matters.

That’s why I WALK so often, and LOVE travelling by road….LOL!

And no where will you see me refer to myself as MD or CEO of anything. Plus, I plan to NEVER EVER have employees (cause I don’t want the hassle), but I WILL continue to encourage and empower people to start their own businesses (In fact, I’m working with my own kids towards launching a home based farm based business in Benin Republic).

It’s also why I dress simply and informally, often African style outfits sometimes mixed with Western elements.

No suits, blazers, ties etc for me. I did “them” a lot, back in those days in Guinness Nigeria: but not anymore. If you’re planning to invite me to give a talk, please keep this in mind :-)

As Ben Bruce said, “I want to be free.”

So I adhere to no one’s rules, and I do not try to force others to fit any particular mould.

And I absolutely refuse to go on EGO trips of any sort: No airs of superiority for me in relating with others.

Make no mistake however, that’s not to say that I suffer from an inferiority complex either. Indeed, I do NOT suffer fools gladly!

But I love to be myself, and to relate in a manner that does NOT depend on weighing people’s importance according to their status or wealth.

Example 1: Even while functioning as a Senior Manager during my time in Guinness Nigeria, Benin Brewery, Nigeria, and I NEVER owned a car and often took a N10 bus or walked to work, from my Ikpoba Hill home to the brewery.

It was only after I got attacked and robbed at 11p.m one night I was returning home on foot while acting as Production Manager that I agreed to let the driver take me home.

That night I got about 6 stitches (at Edi Ale hospital) on my wrist, where I’d been stabbed with a broken Malta Guinness bottle by 3 young men who wanted the laptop bag I was carrying.

I tried to explain that there was no laptop in it, and only company papers, but they would not listen and got impatient, when I kept trying to convince them. One then cut me with the bottle and I dropped the bag, which they then ran off with.

It might interest you to know I still did not buy a car despite that nasty experience in 2001!

I recall one colleague pestered me so much saying I was miserly, since I could afford it. For him, the car was a status statement of what one was: a GUINESS manager. For me, it was an encumbrance. If I had it, I had to worry about where to park it, and what would happen to it etc.

It was only few months to my leaving the company, just before I put in my resignation (in line with an exit plan I’d been working for 2 years), that I applied for a car loan – the bulk of which was then deducted from the money I was paid by the company when I left.

Back then I was simply too driven, too focused to readily allow anything to get in the way of the attention I wanted to give the work I was doing in the brewery.

As I have said in past articles, I often spent as much as 14 to 18 hours in the brewery most days.

Indeed, while still a shift brewer, I would stay back after closing morning or afternoon shifts to work on a PC in the laboratory department, building custom apps to solve data handling and reporting problems I identified.

Yes, I did it all in my free time!

No one asked me to do it, and I never got paid for it. But eventually, with the adoption of several solutions I developed, the recognition and rewards later came.

Example 2: Another thing I did a lot was to spend quality time getting to know my subordinates…

You see, I was a VERY high flyer in Guinness Nigeria (click here to read my resume). At a point, due to my exploits developing custom spreadsheet software adopted for formal reporting by the company, I heard through the grapevine that I was being called “Super Brewer”.

Apart from developing apps in my spare time, I also came up with creative solutions for improving operations e.g. an Operator Training Assessment module I developed as a Best Practice Facilitator, which got adopted by the Training Department for use in Operator Competency Assessment towards formal Certification.

My reputation got me noticed and I eventually got rapid career advancement opportunities – secondments, followed by promotion and then more secondments.

But despite rubbing shoulders, attending meetings with the brewery top brass, and even HQ big boys and girls, I never failed to find time to stop over at the process areas to chat and crack jokes with the junior staff/operatives.

Some were twice my age and had introduced me to their own kids who were as old as I was!

Yet these men had humbly trained me, when I was a newly recruited management trainee, sharing with me the wisdom from their MANY years of hard won experience, doing the toughest most physically demanding jobs in the brewery.

They did this knowing that I would eventually move on to assume my position as Brewer, when they would report to me as their boss.

For me, that was something that triggered a deep sense of reflection that I refused to ignore. I realized that the advantage I had of a higher education was what had given me the edge over most of them. Otherwise, their years on the job would NEVER have put them where they were.

So I resolved to ALWAYS treat them with the utmost respect and consideration and to find ways to make the feel good about working with me, my colleagues and for the company.

That led me to begin spending a lot of my time with process hands across the company.

Wherever I met them on site or off the premises, I made a point of relating with them as equals. Never did I talk down to them, and rarely did I find need to scold them.

Not because they did not make mistakes or were not sometimes rude, but because I discovered most readily acknowledged when they were wrong and they valued their relationship with me.

When I was wrong, I never hesitated to apologize and that endeared me to them even more.

As a result, when – during my shift – problems or breakdowns occurred, these men would come to reassure me that they would do everything possible to get the plant up and running. I mean both the production and engineering hands. They were my pals, but they also never failed to acknowledge my authority.

In the end my shift duty performance frequently reflected the fact that I had a good rapport with the men.

No matter which group of staff I worked with while on duty, I often got the best out of them without having to shout or exchange harsh words with them.

My expatriate boss, during one of my acting assignments, noted as much in a form he filled for me, when I was considering pursuing a Masters Degree in USA’s Pepperdine University (I later changed my mind and never submitted the forms).

But my habit of being “friendly” with the junior staff did not go down well with a few of my colleagues.

Some accused me of “reducing myself to the level of junior staff”. Others went further to say I was embarrassing other managers by being so close and chummy with shop floor operatives.

I never let what they said bother me however…

Since leaving paid employment, I have continued with the same attitude.

And it has earned me ready acceptance in the various communities I have lived in Nigeria’s Lagos, as well as in Benin Republic’s Cotonou and Calavi (so far).

In Ben Murray Bruce’s wonderful speech about change needed in Nigeria, which seems to be trending at the moment, he said we MUST pay attention to the needs of those not as fortunate as we are.

That we must look out for their interests.

I believe the first step towards doing that is to befriend them. That will help us get familiar enough with them to know what their true situation is.

We cannot stand aloof or adopt snobbish superior postures towards them. If we do, we will ignite their resentment not just against ourselves, but also against those who are ours (our families) and all that which is ours (our businesses, properties etc).

One day, when the opportunity presents itself, those of them who are most bitter about the way we treat them will act it out either by attacking what belongs to us, or REFUSING to help us protect what is ours, when others attack us.

Think about it. People you snub or mistreat can simply choose to stand by, instead of helping to call the police if they see you getting robbed after you had a flat tyre in the middle of the night, at the Estate gate!!!

That’s why I recommend that you slow down, and learn to treat others right, from today, so they can also treat you right, now or anytime in the future.

“Treat people as what they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they’re capable of being” – Johann Von Goethe

 

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