by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 22, 2025 | Personal Growth & Career
Your career is too important to manage through guesswork, gossip, or the goodwill of whoever happens to be in charge. Yet most professionals do exactly that. They drift through key decisions influenced by office chatter, biased opinions, and the availability of...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 22, 2025 | Personal Growth & Career
For years my identity was fused with my job. The title, the projects, the praise, and the pressure all wrapped around my sense of self. When performance peaked, I felt valuable. When results dipped, I felt diminished. Eventually, the cycle produced burnout. I had...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 20, 2025 | Personal Growth & Career
Degrees open doors. Curiosity keeps them open. Qualifications are valuable, but their relevance decays unless energy is invested in learning. The professionals who remain valuable are those who keep asking questions long after the certificate is framed. Curiosity...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 20, 2025 | Personal Growth & Career
Titles are attractive. They signal status, open doors, and offer a momentary sense of arrival. They are also brittle. When organisations restructure, titles evaporate. Skills do not. I have watched capable professionals slow their development by optimising for the...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 20, 2025 | Personal Growth & Career
Resilience is often packaged as heroism, a triumphant rebound set to music. In reality, it looks very different. It is quiet, unglamorous, and sometimes humiliating. My clearest lesson came when I was passed over for a senior role, I had convinced myself was...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 20, 2025 | Personal Growth & Career
A few years ago, I lent a colleague a stapler. A week later, it had migrated permanently to their desk. I felt a flicker of irritation, then smiled. The small gesture had done more than I realised. That colleague started coming to me for advice and collaboration. I...
