by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 16, 2024 | Business and Career, General, Tips and Insights
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. (Proverbs 25:11) What you say and how you say it will have far-reaching implications for your professional or business advancement. Your words have the power to lift you high or set you back. Some...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Apr 26, 2024 | Business and Career, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
I still remember this story very vividly today even though it happened in 2006 or thereabouts. Our overall boss who was addressed as the Chief Marketing Officer then let out a short scream in his office and charged out. We all wondered what the trouble was. We ran...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Apr 19, 2024 | Business and Career, General, Tips and Insights
I have known her for a few years. She sells clothes–very good fabrics. I patronized her a few times. It was a thriving business. Her IG page was well followed. Then COVID came. In 2020, there was total lockdown and nobody bought clothes. Where would you wear...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Apr 12, 2024 | Business and Career, Reading, Tips and Insights
In a previous post, I wrote about how reading helped my career. You may consider this post as a sequel. Winning I still remember clearly that I was a staff of the erstwhile Standard Trust Bank when our CEO then, Tony Elumelu, mentioned this book in one of his emails...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 17, 2023 | Business and Career, General, Life Lessons, Testimonies, Tips and Insights
I got a call that early Monday morning. It was circa 2002/2003. A woman was on the other end. She mentioned my name and said someone recommended me. She was looking for a good salesperson—she called it Account Officer. I didn’t know her, and I’d never met her...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 20, 2021 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
Sometimes, just being human is the highest form of leadership. We were all gathered for a business review session that morning. We had the Executive Director who supervised us visiting from Lagos. Suddenly, as he looked around, he asked for one of my colleagues. The...
