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 | Jul 10, 2026 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
In the first part of this article, I stated four questions a good CV must answer. Your CV is the first thing a prospective employer sees before seeing you. Oftentimes, many employers have formed their impression about the candidate based on their CV even before the...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jul 3, 2026 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
I review CVs almost on a daily basis. Hardly will a week go by without having a chat or interviewing candidates. Truth is one cannot see all the candidates but your CV gives you a leg in the door. The word ‘Curriculum Vitae’ has its root meaning from a Latin word...
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 | 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...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 15, 2026 | Business and Career, Leadership, Tips and Insights
We were having our monthly review session one morning around 2010/2011 when something suddenly dawned on me. I looked around the small meeting room on Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, and realised that about five people seated around that table had once been...
