by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 29, 2021 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
I was at a courier company on Saturday to send out a parcel to Abuja. This courier company actually started out as a transport company with buses going to different destinations in Nigeria. Over time, people sent parcels through the drivers to different destinations....
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 9, 2021 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
Speed has become an important element of strategy.Regina McKenna I got there yesterday–Friday–as they opened the door at 8am. I wanted to send copies of my books to Roving Heights at Surulere. After putting the books on their scale to measure the weight, I...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 5, 2021 | Business and Career
In 2013, a joint venture Israeli/South African company was looking to make a foray into Nigeria. They wanted to set up an outlet in Lagos after conducting their feasibility studies and they needed a Nigerian financial institution to partner with. Somehow, I was given...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 1, 2021 | Business and Career, Life Lessons
I had become dissatisfied with my career at that point. Having started my career in Ibadan and having lived there all my life, I felt there was more. I remember how I felt there was a void within. Outwardly, things looked okay but inwardly, I was a mess. I knew that...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Dec 20, 2020 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
When I got the call that day a few years ago, I knew there was trouble. Big trouble. My wife called that a caregiver had broken the leg of a baby at the crèche. Was it an accident? I asked her to rush down to the school and take charge of the situation. She was...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Dec 19, 2020 | Business and Career, Life Lessons
“I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe in you” — Friedrich Nietzsche Sometime in October, I received a call from a former client who had been out of the country for almost a year. He is not a Nigerian but had just secured...
