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...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Aug 14, 2021 | Business and Career
Some years ago when I was a Branch Manager, I sat at one of our monthly performance review meetings and it suddenly dawned on me that seated right there in that room were four other Branch Managers who had passed through me. In other words, they were Relationship...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 10, 2021 | Business and Career, General, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
This morning, I had a conversation with a colleague at work. He shared 3 things his former boss told him. He said they have been the foundation of his career. First: People might not like you but never give them the opportunity to say you don’t know your job. Second:...
