Former President Buhari to his VP: "Professor, don't be the first Vice President to be kidnapped."
- Yemi Osinbajo speaks about his experience working for Buhari at a book launch in Abuja.
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You cannot get this far without polishing your communication skills. See how he is talking with data and statistics. 🤯🤯
If a Nigerian can do this to airports in a First World country. When are we going to harness the knowledge of people like this to better the lives of our people?
I am just thinking out loud!
Adebayo Ogunlesi founded GIP and manages about $100 Billion in Assets with Larry Fink, the co-founder CEO of BlackRock, a company that manages $10 Trillion in Assets.
It is believed that Larry is the most powerful person in world finance!
A few months ago I had dinner with Charlie Munger.
I spent over 3 hours with him.
I got to see his library.
I could ask him any question I wanted.
At 99 he was still *ferociously* intelligent.
The most important lesson I learned from him that night was: Go for great.
In typical Charlie fashion it is a combination of 4 simple ideas:
1. Charlie looks at everything through the lens of history. Human nature does not change. The same behaviors repeat forever.
2. Charlie has a complete indifference to problems. Troubles from time to time should be expected. This is an inescapable part of life.
3. Wise people do not whine about problems. They prevent them:
"Wisdom is prevention." —Charlie Munger
4. Great businesses are rare. Great people are rare too.
Great people *and* great businesses produce fewer problems.
Your mission in life is to get into a great business (and stay there!)
and build relationships with great people.
Doing so will prevent the majority of problems that are under your control.
All of this can be remembered in the simple maxim: Go for great.
I released a short episode with more lessons I learned from speaking to Charlie.
It’s available in your podcast app now.
Satya Nadella
– 10x’d Microsoft’s market cap from $300B to $2.75 TRILLION
– Made them leaders in cloud computing, business networks, and gaming.
And now put them in pole position in the AI race.
He’s a humble Indian boy who got rejected from IIT.
His story is wild. And full of lessons.
Here are the top 5.
1. Growth Mindset
Even in a legacy company.
When Satya became CEO in 2014, Microsoft was a staid giant not known for innovating.
They’d missed on mobile.
And they were about to miss the cloud revolution.
Satya pivoted the company away from its focus on Windows. They invested heavily in Azure, and went all in on the cloud.
The result?
Tens of billions in revenue from their cloud businesses, last year alone.
Mind-bender.
2. Focus on Empathy
Sympathy is feeling for someone.
Empathy is feeling what someone else is feeling. Understanding their POV, internalizing their emotions, and seeing the world from their eyes.
It was the core focus on Satya’s book “Hit Refresh”.
“Empathy makes you a better innovator. If I look at the most successful products we [Microsoft] have created, at their core, they have come about because of a deep empathy for the people we're trying to serve.”
Satya is a total innovator.
And walking a mile in your customer’s shoes is the best way to do it.
3. Collaboration at work
Microsoft under Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer was notoriously competitive.
Internal strife and competition were key features of the Microsoft of old.
Satya Nadella changed all of it.
He refreshed a legacy culture, and made it one of the most collaborative among global tech giants.
The result?
Well, you saw the numbers at the top.
4. Seek out partners
For a legacy company with a massive bureaucracy, moving fast is often not possible.
Microsoft was slow. And changing it took time.
But what they had were tremendous resources. And Satya put them to good use.
LinkedIn, Github, Activision Blizzard, OpenAi, and now, Sam Altman himself.
Satya has made partnering with movers and shakers the hallmark of his tenure.
It has propelled Microsoft to the top in every category of tech in 2023.
5. Flexibility
The flexibility Satya showed last weekend was the stuff of legend.
Microsoft was obviously caught off-guard with @sama suddenly being fired.
And they (probably) fought like hell to get him reinstated.
But when it didn’t work, Satya changed course.
Onboarded Sam to lead Microsoft’s AI initiative.
While staying publicly committed to OpenAI.
Preserving reputation and present relationships while investing heavily in the future.
Now that,
That’s leadership.
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1. Jumia once called the "Amazon of Africa" just released their financial results for Q2 & they are not looking good. The former unicorn, has stopped growing & is facing challenges that could bring down one of the most hyped start-ups from Africa.
Analysis + V11s below 👇🏾 #Jumia
Since u people won’t let me rest…lemme share a fun VFX story. We agreed that Ogundiji can sense when things are off but after a while, I got bored with the jerky reactions that’s common in movies. So I suggested we find a visual representation that is also ghen ghen. The obvious Yoruba style would be a mirror or water in a bowl but it wasn’t sexy enough for me.
So I thought, why not use particles that form a version of the battle sequence. The house loved it but there was a concern about it looking too oyinboish…especially from Oga Bello. This was when writer Adebayo Tijani came up with a brilliant idea. Mojala. Mojala means ashes from fire and there’s a Yoruba saying that the ashes will always gossip about the fire and it’s whereabouts. Once we found a story reason to use it, my 3D team led by @EUmusu went to work. Eri is the lead animator at @anthillstudios_ and the master behind the animations you will see in MIKOLO (showing in cinemas from tomorrow)
Anyways, We had to use some AI tools to generate a 3D form of the scene and then animate the mesh which served as a particle attractor. Then we got @Adamseffects10 to choreograph the action we used for the particles. The other serious work was we had to remodel the room in 3D to make it work and give the particle depth. U would see this effect again when the Agemo shadow appears.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. I muted the audio so u can go watch the scene yourself. Then go see MIKOLO 😝