Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿

Farm boy from Iboro, Passionate Afroptimist #AI enthusiast | Transformation Leader| Business Growth | Change Manager | Outcome Driven

[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

Was talking to someone today and he wanted to know where I work, I said big is relative and the the second biggest bank in the country then he said the second biggest non government bank in the country. This was to me a story about reframing to position…

[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

Are there any case studies using Dangote Cement for learning?

[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

Would the death of the Gen spur us to be more introspective about the menace of banditry and kidnappings?

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Yewa lo Kan…

[Yemi King @TheYemiKing]

Ogun 2027 Gómìnàship battle is already drawn between Lado and Yayi.

Whp do you think will win?

[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

@TheYemiKing Now we have a consensus candidate… Yewa a gbe wa o!

[Middle Temple @middletemple]

Being Called to the Bar is a moving experience for many newly launched barristers. Leonie Hughes describes what it feels like to achieve her goal.

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Indomie didn't conquer Nigeria by being better.

It conquered by arriving when 6 million women entered the workforce and traditional starch cooking became unaffordable.

The market didn't exist until the labor supply changed. Then it was instantly dominant.

An Indonesian company entered Nigeria with two containers of instant noodles and collapsed the country's starch-food hierarchy in 37 years.

In 1988, Nigerian women were entering the workforce at scale. Traditional starch cooking took hours they no longer had.

Tope Ashiwaju, PR Manager at Dufil Prima Foods, described the entry: "It wasn't part of our menu in Nigeria. We looked at it and said this is something we would want to compare favorable with the stable food like rice, beans, yam, bread."

A single serving cost 10 cents. No Nigerian staple came close to the price-speed combo.

By 1995, Indomie built the largest instant noodle factory in Africa.

Today it controls 74% of Nigeria's market. Three factories produce 8 million packets per day.

The Indomie Fan Club runs in 3,000+ primary schools. 100,000 members who grew up thinking this was theirs.

Indonesian Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita noted the final indicator: "In Nigeria, there are 10 Indomie factories. So they claim Indomie came from Africa."

A foreign brand so embedded it lost its country of origin. That's category capture.

The Indomie model: identify the structural gap (labor supply change → demand for time-saving food), enter before competitors can frame it, build supply chain faster than anyone can follow.

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[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

We have a consensus candidate for the gubernatorial elections

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

There is this parable used in negotiation classes, often linked to the logic behind BATNA. The term comes from Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement, a concept popularised by Roger Fisher and William Ury in GETTING TO YES.

The Green Man and the Orange Man: The Million-Dollar Split Tale:

Two negotiators, the Green Man and the Orange Man, are asked to divide $1 million.

Each is given a confidential brief.

The Green Man’s instruction is clear and rigid:
He must secure at least $900,000, or he gets nothing.

The Orange Man’s instruction is different:
He must ensure the Green Man receives no more than $100,000, otherwise he also gets nothing.

They sit across from each other.

The Green Man opens aggressively:
“I’ll take $900,000. You can have $100,000.”

The Orange Man rejects it immediately:
“That violates my mandate. I can’t accept.”

They go back and forth. Each pushes harder. Each becomes more entrenched. Each believes the other is simply being unreasonable.

Eventually, the negotiation collapses. They both walk away with zero.

What is really being taught?

The lesson is not about arithmetic. It is about hidden constraints and BATNA blindness.

Each negotiator is rational within their brief, but irrational within the shared outcome. They are negotiating positions without understanding constraints.

The tragedy is this:
1. There was money on the table
2. There was willingness to deal
3. But there was no alignment of mandates.

The deeper insight is that negotiation failure often comes not from hostility, but from misaligned internal instructions that are never surfaced.

The BATNA layer:

If either party had paused to ask: “What happens if we don’t reach an agreement?”

They would have realised their BATNA was zero. At that point, a different conversation might have emerged:
1. Can mandates be reframed?
2. Can principals be consulted?
3. Can value be restructured beyond the simple split?

The institutional takeaway:

In real-world deals, especially in markets like ours, this parable translates cleanly:
Negotiations fail not because parties cannot agree, but because:
a) They are over-constrained by unseen instructions
b) They do not interrogate each other’s boundaries
c) They mistake stated positions for actual flexibility

And the quiet cost is this:
Value is destroyed in the presence of willing counterparties.

#Lessons

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[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

Sometimes the older you grow the more reflective you become… understanding that you don’t need to comment on all topics even if you hold an opinion…

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🇲🇾 Singapore 🇸🇬

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

OpenAI is searching for 26 students or recent graduates (18 - 25, based in the US or Canada) who have used AI in meaningful ways

Selected applicants receive $10,000 grant, access to their best technology, trip to OpenAI headquarters & meeting with the team

Deadline: March 30
Nomination form: https://t.co/rBeChe4dfp

[Tech in Asia @techinasia]

14 Chief HR Officers leading AI transformation gathered to discuss navigating the human-AI era.

Key lessons:
• Secure buy-in from leadership and employees
• Know where AI adds value (where humans matter)
• Measure AI’s ROI long term

[Vonn @itsthewealth4me]

If interested, Deloitte is offering a six-week free training in Salesforce Consulting/Salesforce Development

Link to apply if interested: https://t.co/T7q1LVZ4UJ

Apply before March 30th

[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

@AyoBankole Please send me a DM of details.. happy to donate! Thank you 🙏🏾

[Ruffin Perri-Greno @gyina_yie]

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[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

Correlation is not causation…. The answer to all strategic questions is - it depends…

[Opey Akinlolu🚶🏿 @Opey13]

I see why there needs to be checks and balances… game theory!