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Even giants fail

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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 just one good idea to change your life. Free Startups business background.

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.

Become faithful in little things by cabiojinia

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 the 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.