Workplace Multiplier by Tola Akinsulire

March 24, 2025

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The targets haven't moved. The world has

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Tariff wars. Currency pressure. International conflicts. Imported inflation arriving before the quarter does.

The targets we set in January haven't moved. The world has.

In December, I sat with a senior leader who walked me through his 2026 targets.

Last week, I was in a room where Ugodre Obi-Chukwu of Nairametrics said what most of us were already thinking: every simulation we built on January 1st is now redundant.

This is the moment nobody puts in the job description.

Not the strategy deck. Not the performance review. The quiet weekend where you have to decide: do I just react to what's happening, or do I think my way to the next position?

The professionals who navigated 2020 well didn't have better information than everyone else. They had better judgment under pressure. They found their pivot before the panic did.

That's the only real edge available right now.

I spent part of this weekend doing exactly that, thinking through what needs to shift, what needs to hold, and what assumptions need to be retired.

Three questions worth sitting with this week, wherever you are in your career:

1. Which assumption you made at the start of this year is most exposed to what's happening right now?
2. What would a calm, well-resourced version of you decide, versus the version operating on disrupted sleep and a bruising news feed?
3. Who around you is watching how you carry yourself through this, and what signal are you sending them?

These aren't rhetorical. The answers are closer to the surface than you think.

The professionals I've seen navigate disruption well share one trait: they got deliberate before they got busy.

They protected their thinking time before the pressure made reactive decisions feel like the only option.

The maze is real. But you've navigated mazes before.

If you're finding that the noise is compressing your clarity, and you want to think through your specific situation, hit reply.

I'm having a few conversations this week with professionals doing exactly that.

Wishing you a truly rewarding week.

Keep winning at work and in life

Tola Akinsulire

Your Strategic Workplace Mentor

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