Dipo Tepede

About 2 months ago, I was invited to speak on the subject; “Project Management in Small Business”. I was immediately excited about the topic and started meditating on how to connect these two topics together. With the rising failure of small business operation in Nigeria, I discovered with shame, how easy it is to adopt Project Management (PM) practices to solve small business challenge. Every business operation falls under the SIPOC model i.e. Supplier, Input, Process, Output and Customer model. The average Nigerian small business falters under the Process operation, which can… ( Read on! )

As an elementary school student, I was always fascinated by Yoruba proverbs especially the literal English translation; the one that particular took my interest was the one about a king’s palace; “when the house of a king burns down, he will build a more beautiful one”. It never truly made sense until I gave up a high-paying job to independently start my own business. First things first, this article is specifically for those who have been called to entrepreneurship.

If you are called, no human needs to tell you because the signs will be very clear – from dissatisfaction at the… ( Read on! )

One of the major obstacle we experience in achieving our individual goal(s) is a phenomenon called the Monkey Mind – It refers to the little voice in your mind that comments on nearly everything you do or experience. It is that stream of consciousness that keeps flitting from one thing to the other like a monkey jumping from one branch to the other. When one tries to concentrate, the mind drifts off to fantasies about something you are going to do next week or an unresolved problem you must face tomorrow.

This chattering voice not only distracts you in most situations but it also uses… ( Read on! )

There are two schools of thought concerning chasing your dreams; chase your dream and the money will follow or chase the money and the dream will follow. At exactly this date, 5 years ago, I wanted to be a Novelist but the economic realities were too strong to attempt such dreams. I don’t know if you have been in my shoes but I realized my attempt to chase money actually opens me up to varying experiences which will be a useful tool when I settle to be a novelist. You don’t really have to agree with me, just tell me if I have got skills or not – see my attempt at a novel below; it was… ( Read on! )

Once upon a time (well, not too long ago), I was a strong proponent of the Buhari/Bakare ticket for the presidential race in the April election in Nigeria but I have woken up from such dreams and done a complete 360⁰ repentance. In other words, I am taking the biblical stance in my support towards this wonderful duo (BB) – the bible leans towards the big picture rather than single or collective events. With my experience and credentials in business management, I have realized that the product cannot in anyway compare with the process that produced the product.

About 20 centuries ago, a man… ( Read on! )