How to get around the know-it-all-Boss
This is to address a question I received in response to the #TMP edition titled: No boss! There is more than one way to get the job done. How do you think one can get their way around bosses like …
What is it with people and ponzi schemes?
​Yesterday, I took to social media to cry wolf with regards to the 100s of multi-level marketing schemes that are now popping up every left, right and center. I then specifically mentioned that MMM-Nigeria was also a scam. Several people …
No boss! There is more than one way to get the job done
The boss does not know it all. The boss might be brilliant, completely full of insights and ideas at every turn, yet it does not mean they know everything. People with the mindset of “there is only one way to …
A simple way to exempt yourself from Nigeria’s economic recession
Let’s leave the complicated economic matters for those elected or paid to handle it and let us pan our focus back to where it really matters: our wallet. Your energy should not be wasted on endless arguments at the news …
What works for you?
A careful study of various productivity methods can even leave you confused. A school of thought says do the hardest tasks first, another says do the easy things first. Some methods are even so complicated that I doubt that it …
Mark Zuckerberg, developing the tech ecosystem and a demo day in Nigeria
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 …