How to attract investors to your dream
Every dream is valid, as long as it doesn’t contravene godliness, legality and good conscience. I don’t decide the validity of people’s dreams; that would be making myself God. I’ve…
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Even giants fail
Speaking to students at the University of Massachusetts, Robert Hale said something that made me think. He said, "There's a good chance I'm the biggest loser you've ever met."
All you need is one good idea to change your life
This is a statement I have repeated severally in my discussions with people who feel stagnated, unproductive or exhausted with thoughts of how to go beyond breaking even.
A Lion in The North Sea: The Battle For Chevron Netherlands
It was October 2013, two years had passed since I had left the family business in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to London, England to start my own oil trading company. My time in the family business, as a director in the telecoms division and upstream oil & gas company was challenging to say the least but engaging and ultimately rewarding.
Tips on how to build a workplace that encourages health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Harmonious versus Obsessive Passion in entrepreneurship
The Harvard Business Review conducted a study recently on the possible causes of burnout among entrepreneurs. Among other things, they tried to evaluate the relationship between passion and burnout.
Be faithful in little things
The Greatest Teacher that ever walked the surface of this terrestrial ball gave an important teaching on promotion and increase. And one of the pathways He highlighted was faithfulness.
Bring your Unique Perspective to the Table
The brain’s ability to be unique in the ideas that it produces is dependent on the ingredients that an individual feeds to it, just as the fireline intensity will depend on the elements that are involved in both the generation and propagation of the fire.
Don’t eat your seed.
In Genesis chapter 1, we see that God commands us to increase, multiply and replenish the earth. But that doesn’t happen in absentia. A man during copulation with his wife releases millions of sperm cells to fertilize the ovum(ova) of the woman. In the end, only one of these sperm cells succeeds in accomplishing the task of fertilization. And the rest?
Make mistakes, and make them early
A couple of years ago, I read an article in one of the online magazines on entrepreneurship, that discussed the differences between American and European start-ups investors.
Underpromise and Over-deliver
It’s better to underpromise and over-deliver than the opposite. Our Lord Jesus gave a parable of the two sons whom their father asked to go labour in the vineyard for…
Focus on the Solution, not on the Problem
This is a very important point [that] I’ve come to realise lately. Nobody gets a reward for narrating all the problems in the world, except historians maybe. People need solutions to the numerous problems that plague humanity, and they'll part with fortunes if you can offer the solutions.
How to build and promote values in the workplace
If you desire to build a successful business or build a successful team at the workplace, you must define your values and stick to them. Values often emanate from our…
Plan for your goals. Work hard on your dreams.
Here are a few quick tips for you today: Write down your goals: Don’t have them in your head. Put them down on paper, on your mobile or anything you…
The Five Principles of Green Pasture – Shepherd series
Psalms 23 is one of those gold mines you have in the Holy Bible. And as a gold mine, it is always best to maximise your exploration when you’re there.…
10 things to do when an idea isn’t working.
10 things to do when an idea isn’t or seem not to be working. If you’re reading this article, there’s a probability that you’re at a cross-road; your revolutionary business/economic/social/political…
The Chinese word for crisis and the Igbo Proverb
I really need to tell this story because I think it’s important… I don’t really know for what reason, but I think it’s important. Just read it and tell me…
The type of people you need to work with
One of the effects of working in the interior design sector of a ready-to-assemble furniture multinational company is this: it develops your eyes. You develop what interior designers refer to…
How to start an online retail store like Amazon, Alibaba
In this video I explain how to start an online retail store. I used Nigeria as an example but this can apply to any other country.
Cocoa Production and the Chocolate Market
The overall chocolate market rose 13 per cent between 2010 and 2015 to hit $101 billion, according to Euromonitor, a market research firm. According to CNN, in 2014 the cocoa industry…