Part 3: How a Boss’s Criticism Became One Of My Greatest Assets

Memoirs

03Apr

Part 3: How a Boss’s Criticism Became One Of My Greatest Assets

I don't think the "Send" button had even popped back up before my direct manager summoned me. I received the most legendary tongue-lashing of my life. It was a "resetting" I’ll never forget. From that day on, my emails addressed the GM by his first name (as he requested) and my direct manager with the utmost formal respect. I learned to give to Caesar what was Caesar’s.

4 mins read

24Mar

How the Ducks Lined Up: A Journey Through Chaos and Chance

Success, I have learned, is rarely the product of perfection. It is the outcome of persistence, grace, timing, and the invisible hands that guide us through the moments we thought would break us.

7 mins read

20Mar

Part 2 — When Integrity Is Tested: A Leader’s Journey Through Temptation, Conflict, and Corporate Scrutiny

Integrity is not a quiet virtue. It is loud. It is tested. It is uncomfortable. And sometimes, it puts you in rooms you never imagined you’d be in. Yet, when the dust settles, and you look back on the choices you made, you find that the only true defence you ever needed was the truth — and the courage to stand by it.

7 mins read

17Mar

Part 1 — The People You Inherit: When Leadership Begins With Someone Else’s Problem

Every employee — whether difficult, gifted, misunderstood, or quietly exceptional — leaves an imprint on the leader they encounter. And in the end, it is these imprints — often painful, often unexpected — that stay with us long after the project is delivered.

5 mins read

06Dec

Baba Cellular of Eyita

Psalm 20:7 "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God".

5 mins read

27Feb

The Ikorodu Mafia

The long, early commutes to my Peninsula office were a defining feature of my early career. But those journeys were far from solitary. They were a tapestry of interactions with fellow commuters, men and women whose lives intertwined with mine. It was a time when our Nigeria felt like a single community, bound not by tribe, but by a shared pursuit of knowledge, mutual support, and a celebration of our common humanity

7 mins read

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Bimbo BAKARE

Memoirs