Ozakpo D. Efemena

10/10/2025

Celebrating my 10th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

24/07/2025

"University of Berkshire Hathaway"
[Daniel Pecaut and Corey Wrenn]

Investing isn’t about chasing trends. It requires a disciplined mindset built on buying quality businesses with a margin of safety, fueled by a unique financial engine, and protected by the psychological fortitude to be greedy when others are scared.

It all started with Benjamin Graham’s core idea: treat the market as your servant, not your guide – and always demand a discount to a business’s true value. Charlie Munger added his twist: focus on owning a handful of wonderful, durable companies that generate steady cash. Warren Buffett and Munger supercharged this philosophy with insurance float – a powerful source of low-cost capital they put to work for decades.

Ultimately, this combination of a sound philosophy and a secure financial fortress allowed Berkshire Hathaway to thrive during crises and build a decentralized culture designed to endure long into the future.

26/06/2025

20/06/2025

"Build a Business You Love"

Businesses grow and evolve through five key stages: Treadmill Operator, Pathfinder, Trailblazer, Peak Performer, and Legacy Builder. At each stage, your focus shifts toward scaling your leadership, strengthening your culture, and refining your systems – ultimately transforming your business from something that depends entirely on you, into one that can thrive on its own.

At the heart of it all is a belief: business is a noble pursuit when you’re clear on what you’re building and whom you’re serving. The real question is, are you ready to do what it takes to help it endure?

18/06/2025

Endless Customers by Marcus Sheridan.

Trust – not traffic – is the real driver of business growth today. Buyers aren’t looking for more sales pitches; they’re searching for clear, honest answers to their biggest questions. Businesses that commit to radical transparency by saying what others won’t and showing what others hide build credibility long before a sales conversation ever starts.

Empowering buyers with self-service tools gives them control and builds confidence, while a structured sales process focused on teaching, not pitching, removes friction, and speeds decisions. In a marketplace full of automation and noise, businesses that show real faces, real stories, and real expertise create the strongest connections.

Your success won’t come from short-term tactics, but from building a system that makes trust a daily habit – through honest content, helpful websites, buyer-first sales activities, responsive technology, and a culture that values transparency above all. Remember: the brands that thrive aren’t just seen; they’re believed in.

02/06/2025

Begin with small steps... Progress gradually, one step at a time, until you arrive at your destination.

21/05/2025

7 Principles of Transformational Leadership by Hugh Blane.

Summary:

Transformational leadership begins with you, not your organization. By mastering the seven principles – finding your *purpose* , making meaningful *promises* , *projecting* your vision through projects, *persuading* through trust, *praising* with specificity, *persevering* beyond obstacles, and *preparing* deliberately – you create environments where excellence flourishes naturally.

These principles work together as a system, each one reinforcing the others. As you implement them daily, you’ll shift from merely reacting to circumstances to purposefully designing both your leadership and your life, inspiring extraordinary results that ripple outward to everyone you lead.

1. Purpose delivers good leadership
2. Promises define leadership trust
3. Projects promote leadership
4. Persuasion drives leadership influence
5. Praise builds peak performance
6. Perseverance drives transformational leadership
7. Preparation creates purposeful leadership

15/05/2025

The Archetype Effect by James Root.

The modern workplace still runs on outdated assumptions about what drives people to work. From the legacy of Frederick Taylor’s scientific management to today’s HR systems, much of work has been built for efficiency and control – not for human motivation.

But new research reveals that there’s no such thing as an “average worker.” Instead, six core archetypes – Givers, Operators, Artisans, Explorers, Strivers, and Pioneers – reflect the diverse ways people find meaning, energy, and satisfaction at work.

Understanding these archetypes can transform how we design jobs, lead teams, and support well-being. From flexible performance systems to personalized career paths, the future of work belongs to organizations that move beyond one-size-fits-all thinking and design work that fits people – not the other way around.

14/05/2025

Innovation succeeds through intentional systems rather than random breakthroughs. Microsoft’s journey across its wide range of products reveals consistent patterns: build the right culture, embrace self-disruption, focus on user experience, transform defeats into opportunities, create bridges between research and products, deploy asymmetric strategies against stronger competitors, and balance speed with responsibility.

These approaches aren’t reserved for tech giants – any organization can apply these principles to develop its innovation capabilities. By building these systematic approaches to creativity, companies can transform challenges into breakthroughs that create lasting value for customers and society.

—Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin.

13/05/2025

Here’s something interesting to think about: a 2009 study by Canadian psychologists found that repeating positive self-statements can actually make people with low self-esteem feel worse. Statements like “I am lovable” or “I will succeed” just triggered more negative thoughts and internal pushback.

This shows how negative thoughts, like fear, are simply part of the human experience. So forget what you’ve read about “erasing” negative thoughts or “deleting” bad beliefs – that’s not how our brains work. Self-acceptance is what really matters, not self-esteem.
The goal should be to build new mental habits that can help balance things out. It’s kind of like learning a new language. You might become fluent in Spanish, but your native language doesn’t disappear. Both can coexist. And it’s the same with old and new thought patterns.

So, let’s stop viewing negative thoughts as the problem. The real issue is when we get hooked by them, tangled up so much that we get trapped.
There’s a simple, sustainable way to deal with negative thoughts: accept and defuse. Different methods work for different people, but the core strategy is to step back and see negative thoughts for what they really are – words in your head. Just because you think something doesn’t mean it’s true.

Defusing is about making this distinction clear in the moment. It’s about noticing, naming, and neutralizing the thought. So next time your inner critic says, “I’m not smart enough” or “I’m a loser,” try reframing it by telling yourself, “I’m having the thought that I’m not smart enough.” Because that’s all it is – a thought, not a fact.

Culled from "The Confidence Gap" by Russ Harris.