Baby Steps in Starting your Business

You want to run your business? Be your own boss? Or you are simply tired of saying yes sir yes ma (in the real sense, you aren’t going to be tired for you will say it to your customers…lol) and you want to try something out.

The first thing most people do is to just think of an idea, jump into it and run. While that s good, what is expedient is the sustainability of that idea and Continue reading

Perception and Attitudes for a Successful Business Entity

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is a perception and attitude to work that encourages and drives productivity and there is that drives negativity and poor work ethics.

The key question, what is your focus in business? Profit? Adding Value? Following the grind?

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The Strategy of the Lion 2

Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan. – Les Brown

If you missed the earlier part, you can still read it here

The Lion as the King of the Jungle was not king by wishful thinking, it was a deliberate Continue reading

Avoiding the Superstar Syndrome in your Business

Don’t we all love superstars? Don’t we all want to be superstars? We love the glitz, glamour, influence, and aura they carry with them right? We see them in sports, music, movies, politics, business, etc.

They are the go-to guys…everyone wants to hang around them, what they wear becomes the latest fashion trend, their opinions on issues is sacrosanct, they are the role models and mentors everyone wants.

According to Tim O’Reilly “Success in today’s world, whether of sports or business, requires assembling a team of people who can work together to achieve something extraordinary. And yes, to achieve something extraordinary, it helps that some of those Continue reading

Why Your Business Will Succeed – Conclusion

Part One

In a nutshell, for every Naira and Kobo you earn and expend, do you have the record of it in a journal? If we take the position of, “oh it’s just a one-man business when we expand we would do it”. We have set ourselves up to fail. James Clear aptly captures it this way when he said, “Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change”. If previous actions build up the potential for a breakthrough, so also would previous inactions build up the potential for a major unchanged…NOTHINGNESS.

Growing up, my Mum had a Chemist Shop, (She is a Trained Nurse) and she ensured for Continue reading