Book Review

Author: Hal Lancaster Publisher: Free Press Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   One challenge that most employees face in the workplace is how to boost their chances of getting promotion. Most of them adduce different (wrong) reasons for their inability to get promotion. I think such people need to read this book entitled “Promoting Yourself”, with the […]

Author: John Boik Publisher: McGraw-Hill Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   One way to quickly achieve success in life is to have a mentor or learn from experienced people in one’s area of interest. The same applies to stock investing. Therefore, it is a good idea that John Boik has written this text entitled “How Legendary Traders

Author: Ron W. Blue Publisher: Self-improvement Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   If there is one topic that always arrests the attention of people across the world, it is how to make money. But knowing how to make money alone is not sufficient to keep one off the shackles of financial deficiency. To enjoy enduring financial freedom,

Authors: Hennie van Greuning and Zamir Iqbal Publisher: World Bank Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   For a long time now, the idea of operating Islamic banking has generated a lot of debate or argument, especially in Nigeria which has different religions. I was therefore excited when I was handed this book by a former boss of

Authors: Karin Abarbanel and Bruce Freeman Publisher: Ten Speed Press Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   Starting a business constitutes a great challenge and the thought of it alone frightens most people into inaction. This is especially so because they lack knowledge of what it takes to begin, not to talk of how to cope when the

Author: Alex Okoh Publisher: Kr8tiv Krest Ltd (+234(0)7098008924) Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi This book is thematically about how managers and leaders can motivate employees in the workplace. The use of the word “Barnabas” in the title is just to stress the need for every organisation to have corporate catalysts that are like the Bible Barnabas. Corporate

Author: Jim Rohn Publisher: African Pastors Literature Trust Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   Wealth and happiness are two of the great desires of human beings. In short, they often go together because most people that are financially wealthy tend to be happy because of the attendant financial independence. I am sure this realisation must have informed

Author: John Maxwell Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   In the corporate environment today, great leaders are required to achieve success. Leadership is the ability to lead others by influence. Great leaders never desire to lead but to serve, and there are some minutes that are very critical to leaders’ success daily. The

Authors: Barry Nalebuff and Adam Brandenburger Publisher: Profile Books Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   The only thing that is constant in life is change. This means one needs to embrace it to avoid being swept away by its tide. Like I said in my earlier article “Employing Modern Language of Competition”, the old concept of competition

Author: Ron Hoff Publisher: Andrews and McMeel Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi   Time, they say, is money. We all have an equal number of hours in a day. However, while some achieve much within the available hours, others achieve less or nothing. At the organisational level, the same thing manifests. It is interesting to know that