by Bayo Adeyinka | Sep 18, 2026 | Business and Career, Life Lessons
One of the things that destroys people’s careers is their inability to handle office politics. Navigating office politics is a skill that is required as you go higher in your career. You cannot avoid it or wish it away, as it is present in one form or another. Your...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Sep 4, 2026 | Business and Career, Life Lessons
This article was originally written on August 14, 2026 One of the young guys I spoke to some months back at the Banking School walked into my office today. I had a session with his cohort where I attempted to answer all their questions: how do I know this is my...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 28, 2026 | Business and Career, Leadership
It was that year when the ‘small fish’ swallowed the ‘big fish’. The organisation where I worked then had acquired this bigger institution and we were going through integration. As expected, there was a clash of culture. I had sent an email to another staff member...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 21, 2026 | Business and Career
We do business with people we like. We hire people we like. We develop stronger relationships with people we like. There is a great tendency for a business proposition to fall through the cracks if the person presenting it is not liked by the one to whom it is being...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 7, 2026 | Inspiration, Life Lessons
I was President of the Students Union at the university that year. I set out on a trip together with a few members of my executive team. One person I remember very clearly was my General Secretary, Edward Eddy Vijay Femi Adekunle, popularly known as Eddy Okonta, who...
