by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 26, 2026 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
The higher you progress in your career, the more you understand that your career is not all about your hard or technical skills. I usually tell people that any company or organisation can buy hard skills; that’s not difficult to get as long as they can afford them....
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 12, 2026 | Life Lessons, Opinion
I had observed him for some time. Each day the routine was the same. Eba with very dry egusi mixed with just palm oil early in the morning and the leftovers late at night. No meat. No fish. He kept largely to himself. He had some bushy beards that made him look like a...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 5, 2026 | Bayo's Travel Diary
This article was originally written on May 18, 2015. I summoned courage as I approached the man who wore a hood. He had just poured himself a generous tot of local liquor, and the look on his face as he downed it showed he was in a world of his own. What manner of man...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 29, 2026 | Bayo's Travel Diary, Opinion
Note: I wrote this travelogue on November 24, 2015 when I had a layover in Addis Ababa during a trip. He wanted to jump the queue at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, but I told him outright to stay in the queue. He turned to me and laughed, adding that “it...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 22, 2026 | Business and Career, Leadership
Sometime in September 2020, I received feedback from two of my former colleagues which were quite encouraging. One was from a former colleague that we worked together around 2009. Her call was totally unexpected. She asked if I could recall asking her to watch...
