The Essence of Good Leadership

The essence of good leadership is not about trying to do everything yourself, but getting it done through others. Instead of trying to do the work of ten people, get ten people to do the work.

- Word for Today

Of Self Concept

Many people live their lives believing they’re intellectually inferior — born that way, and will always be that way. The problem with believing this is that you begin to live accordingly. Not because it’s true — but because you believe it’s true! God created us so that whatever we really believe, we act on. So our self concept becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Word for Today

Smart Parenting

A smart parent helps the children to prioritise what they ought to do over what they want to do.

- Babatunde Oladele

The Bias of Commerce

The world of commerce generally has little patience for excuses and “reasons.” It usually favours the fastest, the most efficient and the most utilitarian.

- Babatunde Oladele

What Do You Want?

Inasmuch as it is good to know how to get what you want, it is more important to be able to keep it, because keeping it is superior to getting it.

- Babatunde Oladele

How to Avoid Giving Terrible Advice

When you advise someone with your own gain in mind, you will most likely give them terrible advice. The best advisers are those who offer counsel beneficial mainly, if not only, to their advisee.

-- Babatunde Oladele

Doing the Possible in the Impossible

If a man does the possible, then God will do the impossible. But no man should bemoan his fate about what could have been when he has not expended effort to do the possible things about his situation or desire.

- Babatunde Oladele