by Bayo Adeyinka | Feb 17, 2021 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
Just look around you in Nigeria, for example. 20 years ago, the ATM machine was a novelty. No bank issued debit cards — maybe just the foreign ones. There were no banking apps. You couldn’t transfer funds the way we do now. It took seven days for your...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Feb 12, 2021 | Business and Career, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
Sometime last year, a sow on my farm gave birth to many piglets but refused to give them suck. We tried all we could but the piglets died one after the other. It was a very traumatic experience losing all the piglets within a few days. I belong to a piggery group on...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Feb 12, 2021 | Business and Career, Letters, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
Dear Team, It’s been my first week with the team and what a week it has been. We had a fantastic strategy session and people gave commitments with boldness. And some are making it good already. But quite a number are nowhere near their commitments. Fortunately,...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 29, 2021 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
I was at a courier company on Saturday to send out a parcel to Abuja. This courier company actually started out as a transport company with buses going to different destinations in Nigeria. Over time, people sent parcels through the drivers to different destinations....
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 9, 2021 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
Speed has become an important element of strategy.Regina McKenna I got there yesterday–Friday–as they opened the door at 8am. I wanted to send copies of my books to Roving Heights at Surulere. After putting the books on their scale to measure the weight, I...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jan 5, 2021 | Business and Career
In 2013, a joint venture Israeli/South African company was looking to make a foray into Nigeria. They wanted to set up an outlet in Lagos after conducting their feasibility studies and they needed a Nigerian financial institution to partner with. Somehow, I was given...
