by Bayo Adeyinka | May 30, 2025 | Opinion
I’ve wondered if it’s okay to blame the misfortunes of Nigeria on past leaders. These were people who hardly got the benefit of what most of us enjoy now— and irrespective of their weaknesses or missteps, still remain references of a nostalgic past. We...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 3, 2024 | General, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
Whatever you’re going through today is preparing you for the future. Joseph was thrown into a dungeon. He heard as people negotiated for him. That was his introduction to negotiation–a skill that would greatly help him when he became the Prime Minister years...
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 | 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...
