I’m excited to announce that “Honoured to Serve” is now available for you! Honoured to Serve is a tactfully written memoir about the author’s journey in public service during his stint as Special Adviser on Education to the Governor of Lagos State (2015 – 2019). The memoir is my attempt to document history and create quality…
How time flies… 90secondswithFBO is 2 years already. Seems like just yesterday when I shared and brainstormed the Idea with my team (Tope, Michael, Simi, Tosin and Banke) over Coffee. It’s amazing how fast what started as just an Idea has built a community that inspires people globally. “Ideas are easy, implementation is hard” –…
Have you ever heard of “The Dunning–Kruger effect”? It is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their capability. In a nutshell, the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to all of us when it comes to things we aren’t particularly good at. We often teach young leaders to boost their…
Did you know? “Abracadabra!” the single word used by performers for magical displays, originated from the Aramaic meaning – “I will create as I speak.” I personally agree with its meaning because indeed we create as we speak. “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this…
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffett According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, Habit is a settled tendency or usual manner of behaviour. It is also defined as an acquired mode of behaviour that has become nearly or completely involuntary. Everybody has habits. Some…
Many people support the notion that good results are impossible to achieve without a lot of hard work. Even though this statement has some truth in it, success is not only about the amount of effort and time we’re willing to invest in our goals. Quite often, it’s possible to do the same amount of…
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar We all started off knowing absolutely nothing. Every single person you admire today started out with zero knowledge at some point in their lives and careers. The differences between you and them at the moment are…
The one thing that everyone in this world has in common is Time. No one has ever been able to create a day that is longer than 24 hours. Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, has 24 hours in a day and so does everyone else. Yet most of us make…
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis For many years people have set for themselves life goals based on their age. For instance, “By the age of “X”, I want to have children; by the age of “Y”, I want to buy my own…
Schools in Nigeria, in the last decade, have come under recurring security threats. This is as a result of insurgency targeted at schools and resulting in the abduction of students and teachers, destruction of infrastructure, closure of schools and increase in internal displacement of persons in areas affected and prone to these security threats. Over…