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The Consigliere is the adviser to the mafia Don. Every CEO needs their own consigliere. This is why you need your own ‘Consigliere’ too.
How to give your company a cool name
I’ve named some cool businesses over the years – BuzzWorx, Perceptini, Last Minute Coffee, Boardroom Hypeman. I get asked this question a lot: how do you come up with these names? How do you give your company a cool name? Simple: many, many sleepless nights and head banging on walls. Pretty sweet, isn’t it?
COFFEE AT THE LOBBY: THE NEW MARRIOTT IKEJA
A new Marriott just opened in Lagos. Is it great for a coffee break or business meeting?
What is the biggest message of your life?
15 years in the biz and I still hear the same concerns from top people. They want to build a public profile for themselves but the path just always seems littered with banana peels:
How To Make Money Watching TV, Like Tajudeen Adepetu
Picture a police line-up. Yes, I know—we don’t do those here, but you’ve seen a ton of Hollywood movies. So, yes. Now, picture a police line-up. Ten 50-something-year-olds. All dark. Medium height. Verdant eyebrows. Controlled […]
Oluwatosin Olaseinde: This is the new face of money
Chasing money, many have regrettably discovered, is like playing hide and seek with the ghost of Houdini. In Nigeria in particular, money continues to play hard to get with tens of millions of us that the country’s dismaying status as the global capital of involuntary austerity seems quite inescapable, or maybe even destined. Yet, right here in Lagos, there’s a young lady — intrepid, resolute — who has assigned herself the task of coaching a new generation of Nigerians on how to play this game of show me the money and win. This lady, her name is Oluwatosin Olaseinde, Tosin for short.
Wole Soyinka’s Full Statement on #ENDSARS Violence: ‘DÉJÀ VU’
By WOLE SOYINKA
To the affected governors all over the nation, there is one immediate step to take: demand the withdrawal of those soldiers. Convoke Town Hall meetings as a matter of urgency. 24-hr Curfews are not the solution. Take over the security of your people with whatever resources you can rummage. Substitute community self-policing based on Local Councils, to curb hooligan infiltration and extortionist and destructive opportunism.
WOLE SOYINKA
This Is What Makes You Want to Hold A Physical Book
Before he died in 2009, the King of Pop Michael Jackson owned at least 10,000 books. No kidding. Ten thousand books. Why? How can one man possibly read 10,000 books in one lifetime? This was apart from newspapers and magazines, emails, SMS, song lyrics. Plus, Michael Jackson was no ordinary man.
Millions Of People Are Afraid Of The Mobile Phone
She calls and says, “I just want to hear your voice.”
But my reaction was a massive sigh. And then I say, “Thank God.” to which she responds: “Why, you missed me too?”
“Well, yes. But that’t not why I said thank God.”
It’s Silly To Live Every Day Like It’s Your Last Day On Earth
When somebody famous dies, Twitter and Facebook go crazy with philosophy.
“This Life.”
“What a life.”
“Life is short.”
Tuface Vs. Blackface: Why Nigerians Choose Goliath Instead of David
Ordinarily, the masses root for the underdog. Scientists have said this is because, deep inside, we all take pleasure in the misfortune of others. They call this phenomenon Schadenfreude.
This is why you prefer to see David destroy Goliath. But what happens when the masses root for the big guy instead? When you lick your lips and rub your palms at the prospect of freakishly huge Goliath obliterating that poor little shepherd boy David? That doesn’t sound or feel just, does it? Yet it’s what seems to be happening right now with the singer Blackface.
A Great Performance In The Bathroom
If Archimedes had slipped and fallen in his bathroom, we probably wouldn’t have known the law of fluid mechanics when we knew it. But he didn’t, thank goodness.
Three Jews and a Nigerian Walk into a Bar…
James Altucher has no filter. He exposes everything that has ever happened to him to absolute strangers on the Internet. He talks about his first divorce, he talks about his second divorce, and he won’t stop talking about his many financial failures. There was that time he moved into Hotel Chelsea in New York City, with a troupe of colourful characters as neighbours; and that other time he sold all his belongings so he could relocate into a duffle bag. James Altucher is an American businessman and writer who blogs about every single thing. He’s also Jewish.
Coffee Appreciation Post – This Used To Be Illegal
When the euphoric effect of coffee hits, it won’t be out of place for the drinker to feel that the beverage is a hard drug.
All hard drugs are controlled, if not absolutely delegalised. Which is why coffee used to be illegal in several countries, including Saudi Arabia. In Constantinople, the government used to flog drinkers and execute anyone caught with it.
When You Read But You Don’t Read Books
Books are not the only source of information and intelligence these days. If you read the Brain Pickings newsletter, for instance, you could find yourself gradually becoming a polymath.
