One of my best subjects in the university and which reminded me that I had left the secondary school level was Philosophy and Logic. Yes, except that course, everything in the first year in the university was done in the final year in secondary school. First semester mathematics and physics were largely Further Mathematics in secondary school. With Philosophy, the professor took us into excursions on the fundamentals of knowledge!

So, in the leadership program  in Tekedia Mini-MBA, I have been looking for how to bring psychology, a distant practical cousin, in our curriculum. But that psychology must focus on how to drive business growth and innovation. I promise you one thing: finding experts in that domain is not an easy matter.

But as always, we got blessed. A business psychologist and the managing psychologist at the Institute of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and a KPMG alum, has joined our faculty. Anthony Alagbile CPsychol, CPLP earned an M.Ed in Mind, Brain and Education from Harvard University. He graduated from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University with First Class degree. 

How do you lead? How do you build a company culture? Speaking with him was another knowledge excursion; a really brilliant man.

Mr. Alagbile is developing a course on organization psychology and how it could help businesses tp thrive. 

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Symplifix, Nigeria’s Airbnb for warehouse & equipment  [aggregates warehouses & equipment across Nigeria and makes it easier for people and companies to do short-term renting], is coming out of beta and launching fully next month. To do that, it has job openings in Lagos, Abuja and Onistha and then remotely. 

Symplifix is a digital marketplace which uses data and technology to aggregate grain dryers, silos, cold rooms and warehouses which it offers to its community of users on a pay as you use basis at very affordable rates.

These jobs include Business Development Associates, Regional Logistics & Scheduling Coordinators, Office Administrator, Customer Support Associates, and Accountant.

I was an early investor in Symplifix and it was incubated in Tekedia Mini-MBA. The founder and CEO, Ejike Ekwenibe, did an amazing classwork and I talked him into making it a business. He has since raised more money.

[The fun part: the Alhaji who brought the bulk of the money also got a special gift: free admission to Tekedia Mini-MBA and last two weeks in an investors’ review, he asked me questions on aggregation construct. It was a magical feeling to know that he joined us in our program.]

If interested, please apply to jobs@symplifix.com and the team will explore. Good luck.

It promises to be the best edition yet with new courses and faculty members joining us to advance the knowledge in firms and communities. Register today and join Tekedia Mini-MBA edition 4. Also, register your team members in your company.

If you do, you will read my exclusive books, have access for a free course at Facyber, attend our Career Week for building careers (not just finding jobs) and Innovation Week.

Accelerate your leadership ascent with the largest management program in Africa. Begin here and learn from the best.

Finally! President Buhari has changed the Service Chiefs led by Chief of Defence Staff, Gabriel Olonisakin. Leo Irabor was named the new Chief of Defence Staff; I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; A.Z. Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and I.O. Amao, Chief of Air Force. Gentlemen, congrats and bring peace to the land.

I have accepted the immediate resignation of the Service Chiefs, and their retirement from service. I thank them all for their overwhelming achievements in our efforts at bringing enduring peace to Nigeria, and wish them well in their future endeavours.

— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) January 26, 2021

He was my undergraduate classmate in Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) and a room mate at a time. He has managed global technical teams in Africa and around the world. He served as the Head of Offshore Field Engineering for 6 years in Brunei Shell Petroleum. That is the zenith of leading teams where any dislocation on missions would cost your employer billions of dollars. 

Dr Chisom Ezeocha will teach Leading and Managing Teams in Tekedia Mini-MBA. He developed a methodology which he has used to lead global teams, and he is sharing those constructs in Tekedia Institute.

I invite you to join him in Tekedia Mini-MBA which begins Feb 8. You missed being his classmate (lol), and I can tell you that you will learn a lot from an amazing man, who was managing people in college before he went global, managing people and complex engineering projects. 

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