This is my commentary on Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Nigeria. You know, the post many people waited for me to write. I have observed Mark Zuckerberg over the years and even though his origin story is so controversial that it …
Leadership over everything…
The stronger the leader, the better the organisation. Everybody responsible person should be thinking of acquiring and developing leadership skills. Everybody is a leader over their sphere of influence. An organisation cannot succeed beyond the capacity of its leaders. As …
A sense of mission
It certainly helps to cultivate a sense of mission around the things we find ourselves doing. A sense of mission, loyalty to the mission helps you to focus and commit to getting the job done. That is when failure becomes …
Get busy, stay in your lane and be relevant
A lot of upwardly mobile professionals invest unnecessary energy in hot pursuit of the big names in their industry. An endeavor that I am not convinced to be worth it. Someone recently related to me his all his efforts to …
Before thrashing a business on social media
In these days of social media, it super easy to go online to shame companies for not delivering products and services as promised or for messing things up. Things like that always leads to bad publicity that most companies would …
Put in the hours
To succeed in your business requires investing the time required for it to work. It is wrong to do half-hearted work and give up, declaring that it is not working. The word for someone starting his business is this: “things …
An interesting twist on the road to maximising productivity levels
There is an interesting twist to true productivity that I have observed, and that is the place of taking a break. We always imagine maximum productivity to involve working and working and working, tirelessly, without taking a break. Working in …
A man of knowledge increases strength
The more you know, the stronger you can become. Your present level is the cumulative result of all the information you came into contact with and the ones you were able to internalise. Your current business activities can become 50x …
You have to roll the dice
You will never know what the outcome will be until you cast the die. You can speculate all day. You can permutate all day. You can pray all day. You can start plotting graphs and charts, predicting likely outcomes based …
Looking at connecting disadvantaged youths to the digital economy
People say talent is equally distributed across the world, but opportunities are not. This is one reason why the brightest of minds waste away in obscure places while average minds bask in the limelight – even though they really do …