Ola Barnabas

You've heard the saying before: "If you do what successful people do, you'll get the results successful people get". That's not absolutely true. There are two sides to almost everything. In this case, one is the expected (the Calling) and the other the actual (the Practical). The first supernatural and the second natural. That popular saying does not acknowledge the place of divinity. Do you care to know if that thing you are trying to copy is a calling for those people whose result you want to get? If it's not your calling, you will get results o, but rest assured you'll wish you didn't do it at all. Don't do it because they said it, do it because it's your calling.

Dear Entrepreneur who still have staff in the face of the current pandemic cum business crisis, the options before you are very few with regards to what to do with your staff and no one should really have to blame you, whatever you choose, especially those who are not in your shoes; who don't know how you think of no other thing except salaries once it's 15th of another month. Your easiest option is: lay off your workers, a huge percentage of them, as some have already done. If you have not chosen this option yet and are still considering others, I salute you; you are one of the heroes of this pandemic. Here is something I suggest you try: Engage your staff; communicate openly and as honestly as you can with them and hear them out. Let them suggest what to do. You'll be pleasantly shocked at the level of wisdom that reside in some of them. If they choose to opt out, you will at least have shown them how much they are important to your organizational process; should things

If there's one characteristic, among others, that I've found to be very common among entrepreneurs, it is the ability to internalize pain. Forgive me if that's not exactly how to say it, but you will hardly find a true entrepreneur who does not keep his deepest business pains to himself, and tries to deal with them alone. Indeed the momentary silence of entrepreneurs is not unconnected with a pain they are dealing with. And there are many moments of silence in the life of a business person. The pains could be self-imposed as a result of silly business risks or calculations that didn't quite work out, outright business failure or externally imposed like a sudden change in government policy (like those banning Okada and Keke overnight), environmental challenge or staff "wahala"(or should I say "nothing-concern-me" posture to work), etc. The shoulder of the business person (especially in our clime), is almost always heavy. People hear the succ