Hey there..So today...I give myself permission to go off script.Right now, of course, we're in the middle of the Dangote Refinery IPO series.And there is still quite a bit I want us to unpack there.But today…I want to talk about something else.Me.Mor...

Hey there!For as long as I can remember, I have had a strange relationship with work.I hate seeing useful intelligence go to waste.Back when I ran PowerIdeas, an old issue was never really "old."Once we had created it, I would ask:What else can this...

Hey there...So...For most of my career, I have had an interesting problem.My best work is work I cannot really talk about.I work privately.Often with people dealing with commercially or personally consequential outcomes.And because of the nature of t...

Hey there...So...For years, I thought consistency was the game.Show up.Publish.Teach.Serve.Keep doing the work.And yes, consistency matters.But somewhere along the way I realised I had confused consistency of activity with predictability of value.The...

Hey there! So...Back in 2021...I started flirting with the idea of increasing my fees for one on one work.I figured $50,000 a year felt about right.Now understand something.For me, that was a considerable jump.Up until then, I had maxed out at around...

Hey there!I learned the lesson behind Dangote's refinery almost 30 years before I had the language to explain it.Year back...I was selling meat.And when that business went down, I was left with something I didn't quite appreciate at the time.I had le...

Hey there!As promised i come bearing gifts:BEYOND THE FOUNDER™The 10 Page Business Comic That Shows You How to Turn What You Know Into Something That Can Grow Beyond YouWhat if the biggest lesson from the Dangote Refinery IPO had nothing to do with o...

Hey there,So the Dangote Refinery IPO dropped today and for the first time...At least to my awareness...Africans can participate in an investment opportunity tailored specifically for their benefit.I got access to the prospectus this morning and as I...

Hey there..I've been at this for 30 plus years.And in the time...I've gone from being a third class graduate of business management...Selling tapes on how to make an extra N25000 a week selling meat on a subscription basis...To being the founder and...

Hey there...So...Imagine two businesses.Same offer.Same market.Both generate N100 million a year.In Business A, the founder closes 80% of the sales, makes every important decision, delivers the highest-value work and owns nearly all of the major clie...