If something is inevitable,embrace it!

If something is inevitable,embrace it

If you know something is inevitable ,embrace it.Especially for business leaders.we live in a fast changing world.
In the 80s ,managers in Africa could sit pretty and watch changes pass by ,ignoring them,foolishly believing that governments would protect them from fierce competition and cushion them against losses.Businesses in Africa in the 80s were run like parishes ,with the manager the High Priest who resisted all change and innovation , excommunicated change agents, ignored trends and instead clung to a "sit ,wait and see" Business management model.

For two decades we watched the world fly as we crawled.First came the push for flatter management that we conveniently ignored,then the opportunities of globalization and then the need to embrace high technology ,research and development.

Unmoved by the global changes in business management of the late 80s precipitated by the success of Japanese style management ,they dragged entire state corporations down and happily contributed to the slow demise of our economic potential.

What we must do in the 21st century is have open minds.Openness and flexibility.Ability to adopt global trends and practices .

African firms should be the first to go Green since we suffer the most from global warming.African firms should invest more money in research and technology since ,at this time ,we are the least innovative .African shareholders should learn to sacrifice company dividends for the sake of reinvestment.

African firms

should invest more in alternative energy since we have the most unreliable energy sources.
Whatever the world does,We must do it two times better!

This could make our businesses sustainable,at least in the near future!!!

Futuristic photos for our Futuristic Blog
Visitors have complained to me about the blandness of my Blog......it is just all articles and no photos.Pictures are worth a thousand words!!

Since my DigiCam is now ready for use ,am gonna snap some really Romantic photos and share with you all...
They depict the lives of noble ordinary people ,including ME,who like everyone else
work for a beautiful life and beautiful world.Hope you will love them!!!

While Africa Sleeps
They say China slept for 500 years.How long has Africa slept.I think we have slept for too long.Maybe you could say the odds were so much against us...somewhat insurmountable.

The 1960s offered us a great chance to put things right.Instead we blew things away.No revolutions.No movements.No intellectual ferment.just stagnation.Plain stagnation.and what does stagnation do? It kills the spirit of initiative in all of us!!

And what do you do for the future when the past has bequeathed you nothing? Can we build a unique generation that is devoid of the failures and the burdens of the past?Can we move forward and forget the past?

Can the present generation of Africans recreate a new future despite the corruption and shortsightedness of their leaders??

I think we can.genius defies conventions!!! We can build a unique genius by tapping into ourselves and recognizing that we have failed and the failure is due to us.people improve by admitting mistakes.
Who would have thought that 19th century Russia,the rotten structure ,would rise into a world power?Who would have thought that an obscure South East Asian Nation would rise from the darkness of the past and build one of the most powerful military and industrial machines not only in Asia but in the whole modern world!

The task of redefining a people requires a collective genius and cultural regeneration.only a supreme act of will can save a beautiful and enchanted continent from sinking.

Join me next time and let us define Collective genius and cultural regeneration.GOOD NIGHT TO EVERYONE.LUV YOU ALL

Of truth and beauty

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Of Beauty and Truth
The power of the truth,why are we humans so obsessed with the truth?In the medieval times the truth was Absolute.Everything could be explained only through the eyes of God.In some way the mind was confined in some small place.Tiny.Imagination was killed.

In some way.it's our imagination that keeps us going.Imagination creates hope.Hope creates the will.The will creates what is real to us.

But the reality.What is reality.At the end of the 19th century the world entered a hopeful millennium,inspired by a passionate pursuit of truth.Thoughts that changed conventional thinking and culture.From music ,arts and science ,the universe we recreated through bold thinking last witnessed in the renaissance,and like in the past ,people were ready to die for truth.

It was a time of beauty.People were able to experience the divine and the unconventional.That is the greatness of our minds.We can open our minds to truth imagination and creation and build an extraordinary reality,or we can close our minds to imagination and submit ourselves to 'reality' and fate.The truth is ,we almost certainly create our own fate .It is the wonderful choice that only God could give.Can you recreate your fate?

Alternative modernity
How do we build an alternative modernity....a modernity and future that defies history i.e. that does not follow prevailing historical and economic conditions..

It is a question of how do we rectify history,and put the history of a nation on an alternative trajectory.
The Nazi tried to create an alternative modernity and plunged the world into darkness.

The soviets alternative modernity version plunged the world into 70 years of uncertainty and blood and pain.

The Japanese created an alternative modernity thrice with extraordinary and mixed results.the first during the 16th century when they went through a mood swing and closed their country to the entire world;in the second instance was during their 1930s with their glorified Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere;the third instance was the success of the economic miracle from the 1950s.
There is one thing ,altering historical direction requires monstrous mental and physical effort because history is almost fatalistic,we don't really alter it in the real sense,we just interrupt it for a short while,maybe 50 years,maybe 100 years....but you know what HISTORY HAS ALMOST ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

Second Dimension

My third day on attachment.Having some great time but my adventurous side is really getting the better of me.I have this unfulfilled desire for discovery.

I have the curious mind of a child and the imagination of a Romantic....i want a big and mystic world where my imagination can turn to reality,my thoughts from the metaphysical into the physical.

I live in the second dimension.....the invisible man looking for truth and beauty.....the born socialist waiting to reap from the fruits of capitalism.....the born revolutionist who believes it's too late for revolution.

I live a life of paradox in a world of great paradox.We all do.

Sleepless in Blogosphere
Ever since I was young I always wanted a place to escape into and let my imagination rule. I have a 21st century mind but I think my id lives in the Romantic times.
Is excessive imagination a sign of an underdeveloped superego? Where is Freud? What about genius? Is genius some kind of knowledge from the past? Is genius rational……I could ask a thousand questions and convince myself that my blogophilia is a rational choice. The truth is it is not. The more I do it, the more I become desperate for it……it is like smoking marijuana or skiving classes……or sinning……it sucks you deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit until you are broke and penniless and still imaginative and wanting more…..
That is why you cannot blog solely for cash, even if your blog pours a couple or a trickle of it...There is a deep, volcanic passion that accompanies and sustains you even when your Adsense account reads $0.0000000000….
Once you open your blog, your mind closes to reality and the world that stares at you is a rusty computer and the hundreds of your loyal “friends”, waiting eagerly for your fingers to tell the story of the day……
My instincts tell me that this the feeling that Einstein felt when he worked his way towards the General Relativity theory ,Schrödinger on his way to wave mechanics and the Spanish conquistadores in their heavenly search for El Dorado. It is not a feeling as such...It is a state….like living in a second dimension where time is no longer the dictator of events …the imagination dictates everything….
We all hate time….the Mussolini of the Space….what would space be without time….perhaps eternity but maybe that is what makes life so beautiful…..it is a time dependent state of affairs….if life was so long what would you do the rest of the time after you turn 80 and are deprived of the life’s finest moments. If we lived to 400 years, most teen suicides would be the at the age 120…
We live in a perfect system…the Blogosphere is the world .What if the Bohemians had had a blog ,or Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe where they gave the world voices of genius and Google Adsense gave them cash to get bye……some 100years from now the world will discover an Emily Dickinson in some obscure blog ..And we will relish the greatness of the blog…….

Futuristic Blogging
We live in a very beautiful world. A highly dynamic system of living where change occurs as we sleep. Innovation shatters conventions and creates new opportunities that are boundless.
The Japanese made us rethink the meaning of innovation. In the post 80s world everyone was always looking for the unconventional silver bullet that would lift sinking ships into profitability. That is the heritage of the 80s.The 80s called for bold ideas that set the stage for surreal world of the 21st century.
And from the 80s we now have such illustrious vocabulary in our 21st century business as futuristic planning, strategic thinking, long term planning, flatter organizations, innovation, research and development.
One megatrend of the 21st century is going to be blogging .The original bloggers were just idealistic people who wanted to network on issues and share ideas and publish. Money was never part of the bargain. But innovation and Google brought blogging into mainstream capitalism. If people could make money through websites, why not blogs? Which after all take 5 minutes to set up?
The Future
In the future our lives are going to be ruled by blogs from the 90year old great grandmother to the kiddo learning to write. Blogging gives us a share of the WWW. It offers a real world where we can meet people like us everyday.
I think blogging is going to reduce crime in the future and keep people more than informed.
Lecturers will discuss their units with their students via blogs, students will discus units before exams I very productive focus groups and presidents and representatives will discuss issues with their constituents in less straining environments. It is called Blog Democracy.
Company managers will source ideas and communicate with their employees through Company blogs , so there will be less waste of time in meaningless company strategy meetings and now that the blog is here we can get rid of the loud mouth office gossips.
What else, in this era of tailor made solutions, universities will start offering a tailor made course .Lets called the Bachelor of Science in Blog Development and Management. I guess this course will be very popular. It will be like the MBA in the 80s and the 90s.
Blogs are also going to take away the influence of the big media in politics. They who control the blogs will control opinion and politics. So hope into the Future Express and start building your community. Start blogging.

The Afrikaners’ Trek North

Apartheid era South African firms are aggressively foraying into African countries where they were previously banned. And they are finding raw markets, unexplored frontier markets like Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Botswana. Today you can see the almost ubiquitous presence of MTN. Engen, Stanbic, and Alexander Forbes in many African nations.

Is it fair that companies that sustained apartheid for so long should benefit the greatest from the dismantling of apartheid? I think the South African onslaught should be checked since the playing ground is becoming quite uneven.

South African companies relied on cheap apartheid black labor to accumulate capital and build sophisticated business systems. Such systems are now being used to conquer newer African markets. It is unfair to local businesses in those countries and in a way it kills local initiative.

De Beers

This South African diamond concern made billions of dollars from diamond mining in southern African countries and from African wars. In addition it exploited cheap African labor made available by an institutionalized racism. As in other countries where injustice was done, the companies that supported that regime should also stand trial for crimes committed against humanity like in Nazi जर्मनी.

Socialized Business: The 21^st Century Management

When Mohamed Yunus started the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in the 70s ,it was considered such a revolutionary idea.No one thought that people could make money by investing the in the poor.In an era skyrocketing of loans to the least developed countries and the resulting debt crisis ,the international banks were wary of international lending.institutions believed that microcredit was unsustainable

Companies had no great motivation to go green before the oil crisis prompted by Yom Kippur War.In the subsequent decades companies invested heavily I alternative energy to reduce on their over reliance of war.

Dream Green

Welcome to the 21^st century. The GREEN Century. In the 21^st century it’s cool to go green. In the 20^th century it was inconvenient. Huge mining conglomerates extracted minerals and devastated beautiful landscapes leaving a legacy of ruthless exploitation. Whole villages were destroyed and are still being destroyed especially by the Chinese with their primitive determination to expand their economy and create wealth.

In the near future it will be difficult for companies that do not follow some standards of accountability and transparency to even access international markets. This is the beauty of the 21^st century.

Human Face

Capitalism, the brutal economic system that led to countless wars and enslaved millions is finally being held to account ,not by a counter socialist system ,but by the very people it enslaves.

In a way, capitalism is acquiring a human face; thousands of businesses around the world are setting very high ethical standards.Of course African countries ,as usual are lagging far much behind.But a Global trend has been set and in the future Green will be Gold.

Fairness will be profitable.