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Β MY FIRST BOOK
Credit Appraisal & Procedure Handbook was my first book.
I wrote the book out of desperation and an urgent need to solve a burning problem.
The problem: I had 15 credit officers reporting to me, and all were greenhorns.
They were on national service and posted to the bank subsidiary where I was Head, Credit.
They were full of fire and determination to prove their mettle.
Apart from what they picked up on the job, they had no formal training.
Daily, I was stressed, bombarded with questions and having to redo lots of credit papers.
It was a nightmare.
SOLVING MY PROBLEM
To solve βmy problemβ, I wrote a credit memo to the general manager, laying out step-by-step how to approach every credit situation.
The GM was very happy and approved the memo and every recommendation.
It was that memo that I repurposed into a book.
The book was 58 pages long, typed single-spaced and comprised two sections:
1.Β Β Β Β Β Credit Appraisal Techniques
2.Β Β Β Β Β Procedure Guidelines
Yes, that was it.
A FLIMSY BOOK LANDED ME A JOB IN LAGOS, AND I BECAME AN INFLUENCER
If I may tell you, I knew nothing about the book industry – I even spelt foreword wrongly: wrote forward.
All I did was get a local printer to print 1,000 copies, which sold out within weeks.
That book cemented my reputation as a credit expert and an author.
That book landed me a job in one of the top three βnew generation banksβ (at the time) in faraway Lagos, Nigeria.
(I lived in Kaduna, central Nigeria, when I wrote that book).
Yes, that first book gave me the confidence to write another, and another, and another.
That’s how I became the “Paul Uduk” you know today as a “book guru”, expert, executive coach,
influencer, thought leader, speaker, trainer.
It started with just one flimsy book.
And today? I’ve written eight more books, with The Perennial Winner being the latest.
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YOU TOO CAN WRITE
So, if I may ask, what are you waiting for?
Youβre certainly an expert in something and likely facing a problem.
Why not solve that problem the same way I did mine – by writing a book?
Try it and come back and thank me later.
Get my free Book Writing Clinic (BWC) lessons here. It’s free, not N35K or N75K.
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