Proposal and Bid Manager in AEC | Doctor of Commerce | Indie Author of a few books. “Planning is boring. It's also where most projects are won or lost."
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The ancient Greeks had two words for time. 😀
Chronos - the ticking clock, the calendar, the birthday that reminds you another year is gone.
And Kairos - the moment of meaning, the instant that changes everything.
Most people spend their entire lives in Chronos, counting years, dreading the number.
They never realize that a single Kairos moment; one conversation, one decision, one brutal honest look in the mirror can outweigh a decade of Chronos.
You’re not running out of time. You’re running out of meaningful moments.
Those you can still choose.
Dr. Oyewole Abidemi retweeted
What's even the meaning of "I care too much about quality"? 😂😂😂😂
I won't even trust you with anything important if you've never made a mistake that almost cost you your job.
It probably means you've never pushed yourself far enough, taken on anything sufficiently challenging, or carried responsibility at a level where the consequences of failure are real.
I once sat on a hiring panel where we asked each candidate to describe a mistake they had made.
Most gave us a polished non-answer, something like "I care too much about quality."
One woman told us about a formula error in a spreadsheet that had cost her company money.
She explained how she found it, what she told her manager that same day, and the two-minute check she now runs before sending any file.
She was not the most polished candidate, and she got the job.
A plain account of a real mistake, with the fix attached, tells an employer more about your judgement than a list of all your gbogbo strengths ever could.
Dr. Oyewole Abidemi retweeted
I celebrate you.
Happy birthday to you, brother man.
Cheers to many more beautiful years ahead.
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I once sat on a hiring panel where we asked each candidate to describe a mistake they had made.
Most gave us a polished non-answer, something like "I care too much about quality."
One woman told us about a formula error in a spreadsheet that had cost her company money.
She explained how she found it, what she told her manager that same day, and the two-minute check she now runs before sending any file.
She was not the most polished candidate, and she got the job.
A plain account of a real mistake, with the fix attached, tells an employer more about your judgement than a list of all your gbogbo strengths ever could.
Happy birthday to me! 🎂
Another year older, wiser, and still chasing big ideas. Here's to new wins, better bids, and bigger dreams.
Cheers to 11/11!
What is the best advice you ever received from someone who wasn't trying to give you advice?
Mine came from an uber driver in Ilorin who told me he never made big decisions on a Monday.
"Let me think about it" is a complete sentence.
It has saved me from more bad quick yeses than any checklist I have ever used.
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Most people can tell you exactly what they want to achieve this year.
Far fewer can tell you what they are willing to stop doing to make it happen.
Time is not a container you can keep filling. Every yes quietly uses up a piece of something else.
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In university, I was in a group project where four of us split a presentation into sections. Each person worked alone, and we planned to merge everything the night before.
At 10 pm, we discovered that three sections defined the same term differently, two used different data, and the slides looked like they came from four separate decades.
We stayed up until 3 am fixing it. The grade was decent, and the lesson stayed with me much longer.
I have seen the same pattern in workplaces ever since. Parts written in isolation collide at the end.
Collaborate and do peer review meetings early on before it’s too late🙃
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