Taiwo Olatunji, CFA

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

@DrJoeAbah Kado Roundabout has tacit knowledge about selling grilled fish while Abuja Gardens has explicit knowledge.

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

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[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

“But remember, the sum of consistent, boring, ordinary performances adds up to something extraordinary.”

An important reflection from @sahilbloom on the games you play in life. https://t.co/KsNCmDC1kG

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

I voted for L. HAMILTON as @salesforce #F1DriveroftheDay. Make your vote here: https://t.co/b1NxYNeedj https://t.co/chKNgL0I29

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

I completed the September challenge faster than 90.4% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Chris Hladczuk @chrishlad]

Excellence is the capacity to take pain.

credit: @FoundersPodcast

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

You can't live a big life in a small environment.

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

Proud to renew my membership with @cfasocietyng — staying committed to ethics, excellence, and lifelong learning in finance. #CFASocietyNigeria #FinanceForGood #MembershipRenewed

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

I voted for L. HAMILTON as @salesforce #F1DriveroftheDay. Make your vote here: https://t.co/b1NxYNeedj https://t.co/chKNgL0I29

[Always Keep Learning @AlwaysKeepL]

The Iceberg of Toxic Culture

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

@ScholarshipfPhd 5

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

@FOBroadband I have laid a complaint on a fibre cut at my residence and I was promised a technician will visit my residence today. Please note that no technician visited my place and my day has been wasted.

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

Na man wey fail, dey like to dey complain

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

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[Access Holdings Plc @theaccesscorp]

Our fearless leader, Herbert, reminds us that fearlessness is a strong mindset that lets us break free from the feeling of being held back by our own limits.

We miss you Herbert.

#RememberingHerbert
#FearlessLeader

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

How can I explain how easy it is to get detached from reality when you are in a senior position in government, without appearing to excuse it?

First, you are so consumed about what is happening inside government that you don’t have time to think about what is happening outside government.

If you assume that senior government officials have time to follow Twitter trends, you are mistaken. Most have their social media accounts handled by aides who decide what to bring to their attention. Even what they decide to bring to your attention is heavily curated and coloured by their own interpretations.

Most government business is still handled through paper files. So, you spend HOURS each day treating files. Many are speculative proposals to do one thing or the other for you. You junk must of them. Some may be interesting and you ask that they are offered an appointment.

Then there are things you are asked to approve. You need to treat these with caution because an approval can land you in jail. You send for people and ask questions. You need to meet with others and triangulate what you’ve been told.

Then there are letters. You may get 300 every week. Only you can direct what the official response should be.

Then there are petitions. Nigerians are excellent petition writers. Many are frivolous but you will only know when you investigate. Investigating means meetings and files.

Then EFCC and ICPC may invite you about one frivolous petition or the other. When they kept inviting me monthly, I kukuma gave them an office with all our files to just check things by themselves, instead of going to their office monthly and spending the entire day each time, not knowing what you’ve been accused of this time.

Then visitors. If you run an open door policy there are tens of people waiting to see you everyday with one problem or the other. You may need to refer them to other people. There are people you must see. Abi if a Minister comes to see you or your Minister send someone to you, won’t you see them? Or someone is sent from the Villa. Or it’s the traditional ruler from your village or an old classmate, won’t you see him?

Then your boss or the SGF sending for you, sometimes several times a day.

Then events in the Villa, conferences, seminars and workshops and circulars say you must attend. Loads of them! If you don’t attend, rumours will start that you may have joined the opposition!

Then Committees that you are mandated to serve on. Load of them!

Then travels. Sometimes, your name is put in a list for some events that are nothing to do with you. You are asked to accompany your boss or to represent him and read a speech somewhere. If you have a Board, that is another level of complexity.

Every weekend, there is an event that you must attend. Loads of them! The President is launching something. Or somebody’s daughter is getting married.

Then there is the National Assembly. They will send for you or tell you they are coming to see you. You can’t refuse.

With everything I’ve said, I haven’t talked about the time to do the actual work o.

You may find time to read the papers or watch Network News but they never say what is going on in the minds of the public.

Of course, all the while, all your staff are telling you how wonderful you are and why you should ignore “noise makers.”

Before you know it, you are totally disconnected from reality. If you are lucky, you will have a wife or mother that will slap you occasionally and tell you that hat is going on in the real world. If they are the type that enjoy the trappings of power, forget it.

That is why you must make a deliberate effort to go to markets, enter taxis and Keke, queue in banks and public hospitals and ask people questions just to get a dose of reality.

Even explaining it, I don tire. End!

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Charlie Munger was one of the most successful and respected investors of our time.

He helped build Berkshire Hathaway into a $800 billion dollar company.

Here are 15 reading tips from the late great Munger:

1) “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.”

2) “As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.”

3) “Most books I don’t read past the first chapter. I’m not burdened by bad books.”

4) “I don’t think you can get to be a really good investor over a broad range without doing a massive amount of reading. I don’t think any one book will do it for you.”

5) "Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”

6) "It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading you don't have to work."

7) “If it’s wisdom you are after, you are going to spend a lot of time sitting on your ass and reading.”

8) “If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.”

9) “Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business. We do that because we like that kind of a life. But we’ve turned that quirk into a positive outcome for ourselves. We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.”

10) "I have always loved to sit and read. And I never knew anything that was really worth a damn that wasn’t learned in that fashion.”

11) "If you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading."

12) “We read a lot. I don’t know anyone who’s wise who doesn’t read a lot. But that’s not enough: You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.”

12) “I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural. I can’t remember when I first read Ben Franklin. I had Thomas Jefferson over my bed at seven or eight. My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.”

13) "I am a biography nut myself. And I think when you're trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them."

14) “Obviously the more hard lessons you can learn vicariously, instead of from your own terrible experiences, the better off you will be. I don’t know anyone who did it with great rapidity. Warren Buffett has become one hell of a lot better investor since the day I met him, and so have I. If we had been frozen at any given stage, with the knowledge we had, the record would have been much worse than it is. So the game is to keep learning.”

15) "That sounds funny, making friends among the eminent dead, but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better in life and work better in education."

[Arinze Odira @CaptainArinze]

Young King,

1. Be in control of yourself. Talk slowly and move slowly. You are a King.

2. Crush your ego to zero. Your ego is blocking your way to greatness.

3. Don't be intimidated by people, and don't let anyone disrespect you. Look them straight in the eye. ‘No gree for anybody.’

4. Be kind. Every day, do something for the other person without expecting a return.

5. Do not lie. Your word is your honor.

5. Find love. Build a solid support system. You will need it.

[Taiwo Olatunji, CFA @taidotng]

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