Is Your Business Positioning For Today or For All Time... Any Brand Philosophy at All???

Is Your Business Positioning For Today or For All Time... Any Brand Philosophy at All???

From Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Building a lasting business has not been more challenged than in our generation, especially in Nigeria,  the biggest potential from Africa as far as the New Frontier is concerned.

However, if we must really compete globally then the negative rhetorics must change.

The narratives are very much unattractive to international business prospects.

We have effectively created many floodgates not windows for foreign players across all value chains. The global players will only grow their country economy with the businesses they do over here and why won't they  when all the funds to sustain their businesses also came from their foreign banks at their local low interest rates and the products they patronize are also from such countries and maybe they are also allowed to spread the payment for those products over many years.

Remember that Nigeria is a cash based economy.  Can you imagine foreign players getting full cash value and having 10years to  spread payment with vendor? So why won't Africa be the New frontier for global players?

Unfortunately, local players are not helping matters with low quality services and sharp practices.

Appreciable businesses, say over 80% are not positioned to play globally  and unfortunately, the entire nation suffers and you may want to ask how.

Whether we are aware or not the available resources of any nations, human, capital, materials, infrastructure are expected to build the commercial value. However,  the growth of that commercial value is directly proportional to the pool of income generated, which also is impacted by the pool of available business opportunities.

The challenge here is this,  out of the pool of available businesses, let us say 100billion naira each year,  20% global players compete for 80billion naira worth of businesses with only the labour content of about 5billion and taxes the only benefits to our country. 75billion naira repatriation to home country as materials and profits.

Eventually, 80% of the players, that happen to be local players with more than 50% of the pool of workforce compete for the remaining 20billion naira worth of businesses and obviously growth will be a huge challenge.

We are really expected to recycle the resources of the country while we attract foreign investment  but that is not the case;  we are allowing for huge repatriation and not attracting enough foreign investment to make up for the commercial export.

These are from my just observing things around me and logics.

To change the rhetorics and the narratives and reverse the order which should be THE NORMAL,  we must take responsibility for where we are and determine to make pragmatic adjustments for THE NEW NORMAL, implying a future where local contents compete for the 80% of the available opportunities and foreigners position for the remaining 20%. A future where we not only have confidence in human capital but also in our local materials fully developed from raw materials from all our various geographical zones.

A future where we all buy NIGER.

To be continued...

Work hard to discover your extraordinariness and even harder to sustain it; We are all unique and gifted to the world.

Work hard to discover your extraordinariness and even harder to sustain it; We are all unique and gifted to the world.

Our True Habitat

Don't be like many, no most celebrities; they are either on STAGE,  or on DRUGS; craving to fill that emptiness - Our true habitat is Godliness accessible through JESUS THE CHRIST.

Discovery and Courage - Critical For Your Next Move

Discovery and Courage - Critical For Your Next Move

From Odusina Adewale Hiworks

One of my campaign statement is that 'Beyond Common Sense Is The Right Action Taking In The Now. '

I dare to say that, THAT RIGHT ACTION is already resourced for us to undertake.

From studies, mentoring and experiences had, the only challenge our next move have is OURSELVES; most probably beclouded by wants that we call needs.

So be adjusted NOW, because you have all you need for the next move.

Once that is settled,  then if the claim is true that the next move is already resourced,  the 1St necessary action will be to DISCOVER what it is that is available for that next move.

Afterwards, With Courage make the move.

A lot of times, people focus on MONEY and wait endlessly for the money,  when the next necessary move is to go volunteer somewhere where the required business skill capacity can be developed.

The next necessary move may be acquiring necessary certificate with available capital to enhance project success.

The next necessary move may be to seek employment in a related project environment and grow required experience.

The next may be growing a business relationship with banks,  and organization that can facilitate such projects.

The next move may be to find a Trusted Mentor,  one that has experience or needed skill sets and be mentored for a period.

Shockingly, the next move could be to write the vision or project idea down and run through the plan; one may discover a clue to the next critical move for project success.

You may want to start a newspaper company and your next move is an online Journals and columns is the available papers.

Do not bring level 100 problems to your level 5 or level 5 to level 0.5.

Jesus had the mastery of the books of the laws and prophets at the age of 12 but started His ministry at 30years.

Life is a journey with many milestones and every cycle resourced. All you need now is what your current cycle requires.

So DISCOVER your next move now and be COURAGEOUS.

You are an Institution

You are an Institution

From Odusina Adewale Hiworks

You are an Institution, a product of certain schools of thoughts; ideologies you absolutely believed; You now know what to do to change you.

If you truly believe hard work is critical for success and you don't come across as  a diligent worker,  then you actually believed shabby performance can deliver success or you believed cutting corners can, however that will play out.

You claim you believe in God's empowerment, and you don't identify with His values:you are full of self aggrandizement, greed and accruing riches at the expense of genuinely honest hard working people. Sorry, the one behind the values you really project is called SATAN and he is simply having a nice time with you.

To be continued....

There are no 'suddenlies'

There are no 'suddenlies' that are not  consummations of some 'deliberatelies'; it could just be that minds were oblivious of the relative series of events. Odusina Adewale Hiworks Credited to Pastor Peter Alagbe At HOG Ikeja,  Sunday Service Session June 11, 2017.

When 'suddenlies' are the first jolts that any relationship is failing; business, marriage, friendship, and even our Piety,  then it is already quite a late alertness.

Most of the time,  building do not just collapse without indicating that it is distressed. Prior to collapse, there will be IGNORED strange occasionally alarming vibrations, IGNORED alarming cracks and many times IGNORED notice of Demolition by Building Local Authorities.

Unfortunately, the Deliberatelies don't make the news before the Suddenlies have taken a ravaging toll.

This is also the reality for most of every other life engagements. There are really very very few genuine suddenlies with difficult to track series of accumulated events.

When you completely ignore speed limit, chances you will have series of accidents are high and it is just a matter of when,how severe and the relative toll or impact. Your ignored series of event will be habitual over speeding.

Now,  if I know that you habitually over speed and I ride with you home from wherever, then my series of event will be being stupidly riding with a friend that habitually ignores speed limit.

Businesses do not just loose revenue and when revenue downward drift is the first jolt at realizing financial chaos, it is most of the time too late.

Most organisation have strategy for securing physical assets but have no clue for securing their most important intangible assets:their vision and mission philosophy.

When a business brand Identity is at the mercy of incompetent human resources and management,  Business Financial mess and Extinction are possible treats.

It is amazing that God has as a strategy to cut off parts of the body that hinder the overall well being of the body. Also do doctors.

Owners and management of Businesses have the responsility to protect the brand identities and be willing and ready to severe persons, teams, systems, practices and such like that run contrary to the brand philosophy:NIPPING SUCH IN THE BUD before they become prevailing threats.

There must definitely be an appraisal strategies that can identify the GAPs.

Most of the things I shared are from years of fellowshipping in Church, House of Grace, Ikeja, using audiovisual, watching TV, listening to radio,  study of Bibles and books; Significantly FREE; I ONLY PAID ATTENTION;You don't have any excuse for poor and shabby performance.

To be continued....

- Christianity is a call to operate at the level of God's influence. Credited to Pastor Peter Alegbe

The Irony of Leadership

From Odusina Adewale Hiworks
The Irony of Leadership is that leaders are accountable for Raising Greater Leaders. If you find yourself mentally threatened by your subordinate, there is a problem with your leadership.

Also, if you are a subordinate, and your team leader works harder than you, you have a bigger problem;you are suppose to take his job for crying out loud, so he can handle more delicate and critical responsibilities for business growth and expansion.

Another irony of life is that we are all suppose to be leading a cycle where our impact can be evaluated and also following in another cycle, where another is reviewing and improving our capacity to function in our leading cycle. We must be hunble and sober enough to admit our flaws, unlearn some school of thought and embrace the way forward.

All of us; leaders as well as subordinates need mentorship and we are all leaders in progress.

Be Consciously Aware And Developing Your Personality Equity

Be Consciously Aware And Developing Your Personality Equity

By Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Personality Equity is our overall personality worth mentally and perceptually.

Personality equity or capital is mainly but not exclusively, the cumulative worth of our intellectual capital, social capital, political capital, and professional capital.
Others are trust equity, fidelity equity, loyalty equity, emotional equity,
The mentioned capital value chain are not in any order of significance as different people will project one more than the other in view of the cycle of influence they are more frequently engaging.

Why am I discussing this?

Well,  I have seen many people limited by their deficiency in one or more of the personality capital.

People have lost promotions, jobs, businesses, spouses, children, great friends and valuables for taking certain capacity development for granted.

I will define intellectual capital as the capacity to adroitly communicate the language of ones skill and experience to a layman and to solve relative problems. And I stand to be corrected.

Education and a quality one at that, is a critical factor in skill acquisition while experience is knowledge by participation.

I have engaged with fresh graduates of Engineering that depend on calculator for the elementary arithmetic multiples like 8x9, 7x9, 9x6, calculating profit and loses and such like.
How will such survive in the real world.

I have been resonating to my kids from elementary to study for life success..... That is a higher responsibility to be exposed to early.

This is how to develop intellectual capital consciousness and grow it from kindergarten and throughout a lifetime.

It is expected that everyone with intellectual capital should be able to trade and train with it.

It is unfortunate that a lot of people are exposed to opportunities for growing this capital without harnessing, documenting it or internalizing such.

A lot of us seat and are taught God's principles for success and impact from the Bible for at least 4hours weekly. We also are expected to spend time on our own reflecting on biblical principles

Then at school, work, and various places of interaction, our awareness to harness intellectual capacity is critical for the equity development.

Be Consciously Aware And Developing Your Personality Equity

Social Capital is the strength of Trust as expressed in economics; the strength of your words that you will over deliver what you promised.

To be continued.....