The Primary Role of Government

The primary role of Government is creating an enabling environment for businesses to thrive. Implying that the core value for that is deep thinking 24x7 problem solving skill; problems like, how can average time spent in traffic be reduced to 1 hour on the longest route for 365 days in Lagos, Nigeria.

What are you doing in the Management of Ministry of Transport, if this is not on your front burner, for crying out loud???

If you are in the Ministry of Finance, it should be on your front burner, how the Government can efficiently and effectively allocate available resources and more importantly track deployment and ensure exponential returns on all the investment.This should be why you wake up everyday and go there and i really do hope, the idea on Treasury single account is your idea.

If you are in Defense, the obvious security narrative of crime happening for 1 hour and above without any restrain from anyone in the security architecture anywhere on land and sea, within our borders must be crashed to at least 10 minutes. There must be an engagement  good enough to restrain criminality for 15 minutes within which reinforcement of some sort can arrive.

If you are in the Ministry of Health, know that Government investment in Health needs to translate to measurable ROI significant for our GDP appreciation: No arm of Government is set up to be a Parasitic Parastatal.Let is be on your front burner to convert this year investment to at least a Return five times more.This should start with Policy Formulations that is centered at improving adult mortality rate which was 31.83 deaths per 100 in 2015, obviously more now. Infant mortality rate stood at over 100  per 1000.

If you are in the Ministry of Power, the burner should be super heated now, finding ways to provide 24hours by 365 uninterrupted Power Supply.

Ministry of Art and Culture must be think tank for how all our invisible intellectual works of Art can become visible at the world stage. Every time I visited Yabatech, Lagos, I am amazed how such a gold mine is not a tourist centre for fine Arts. That is one school out of 100s around the country with amazing works of art.

For the Ministry of Foreign and Interior Affairs, that should be the Think Tanks For Projecting all that make us Nigeria, in Nigeria and at the World Stage, to the ends, our citizens, proudly Celebrate Nigeria locally and internationally. Make it More Honourable to carry the
Green Passport than any other Passport.

To be continued...

The career path and you - staying relevant and indispensable in the 21st century.Odusina Adewale Hiworks

The career path and you - staying relevant and indispensable in the 21st century.Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Time: 30mins

What is relevance?

#Relevance:If the Gate keepers of different industries actually, adroitly, Man their Respective Gates, then, Illegality will need to find another Planet.Hiworks

Relevance is the value created in the nation, organization, for a person, or group of persons, to the ends, sustainable progress is made on account of the input that is adding up to the collectives.

Your spontaneity and intuitive demeanor is a strong pointer to your gifts, talent,your strength, weakness, areas of opportunities, threats, SWOT analysis

This can help to find your complement as you progress.

Relevance will mean different things to different environment. We shall mention 3 industries from so many…

1.Media – how do we keep the viewers glued? - Content - Innovation
2.Construction –How can we maximize profit? -  Cost Efficiency towards Profitability
3.Banking – How can we take more Decision with perfect information? - Risk Analysis & Management
4.Government – How can we create an Enabling Environment for Businesses to Thrive – Competence, Capacity, and Character
The ironing of it all is that items 1 to 3 are part of Engineering item 4 and the personality traits mentioned are required for every industry to thrive.

As we all know, it is those personalities that have excelled in their various career that are called to serve at the Highest Level Of Governing Council.

So how can one develop,
1.Competence? Dexterity
2.Capacity? Decision making
3.Character? Formed Habit – peculiarity of moral & mental qualities

Plan Your Year Irrespective!!!

Plan Your Year Irrespective!!!

A lot of times, we don't plan because we can't immediately see where funds to mobilise such plans will come from. But  planning is sacrosanct most times for one to even see wherewithal funding will come from.

Another Truth is that we all have what we need for the next necessary action in our career path or journey. It implies everything that you can not see you have is not necessarily needed for your immediate next move: money, car,house,wife and all.

The last I will share is that, we must take careful stock of our leverages; everything we have right now and prayerfully see how they can be deployed or harnessed as the necessary steps to the next phase of our lives. Your marketing skill may be so good that you can sell ice to Eskimos and you just do not consider that leverage. For me, one of my leverages is writing and immeasurable doors keep opening just because of my writing skills.

When we come to terms with the reality that what has hindered us is not outside of us but within us, we can change the narratives for the future starting NOW!!!.

NONE OF US IS DISADVANTAGED!!!

We just have not harnessed our leverages effectively.

So start Planning Now!!!

To be continued.....Pause and Reflect!!!

Yea!!! Here is the continuation; The Game Changer; Jesus Christ, the more than enough Leverage. Just talking about His Salvation Grace, makes Wisdom & Power available at the door of every Heart,Home,Business, Ministry etc. It's like having a socket connected to the public mains or any working power supply system.

That leverage is available to the ENTIRE Humanity.

This Leverage can create any other leverages, even from nothingness.

Ask Jesus today, into the equation of your life.

You think you've got a winning plan, guess what, God's plan is exponentially bigger and better.

If you have not been straight with God years back, repent, exploit his leverage for forgiveness and move on in His Truth.

Do that now!!!

God does not reward time but rewards faithfulness.

God does not reward time but rewards faithfulness.

There was a story shared by Jesus in the bible. Different people came to work. paraphrasing the scriptures, some worked 8am to 5pm, some joined the work at mid-day and some at 4pm.

Knowing God to be a great planner, I am sure those he employed in the morning have ability and potency to finish the job but by 12pm, it was clear, with their disposition to the work they will not finish. The employer smartly decided and engaged more people and at 4pm, it was obvious again that even those  were not as committed as expected and with the two groups combined, the job will not be finished.

So at 4pm, an additional group were engaged and the job was finished.

What became shocking to all the employees was that, he paid everyone the same wages.

In God's reward system, he pays for faithfulness and not the no of hours put in.

There is a standard required when we want God to put His blessing on our Labour, whether we are self employed or employees.

God commanded mankind to work and for every instruction of God man obeys, God rewards.

The question is,will the work pass the Quality Test of God; will your 8am-5pm be equal to another's 12pm-5pm or 4pm-5pm. We know that if our work is shortchanging the organization, probably because of other private practices, it is tantamount to stealing. In the eyes of God, that person is a barao!, ole!, oyi!,voleur!,forubo!etc.

This is same for self employed business people that shortchange their clients for profiteering.

God has his plan to reward every worker supernaturally, but that will never happen when the pay received is a shortchange of the person paying for such service.

In this new year, and especially as we are going into a season of waiting on God, let's renew our commitment to serve God everywhere we shall render service from now on.

The physical pay is a child's play compared to the pay with the blessing of God. Just to put it literally, its like shortchanging yourself on God's 10M naira plan on every 100,000naira salary you cheated your boss or employer on The blessing of God meets every need. The rich can pay for his children to school abroad and the less privileged can be so blessed with Children with unbelievable IQ by God for his God followership, that such children will go abroad on scholarship or by God's other means; remember God can create from NOTHINGNESS.

This is very rampant in the civil service and it's unfortunate that they think no one will know. The two personalities that really need to know are God and the devil, the accuser of the brethren. Even if God wants to overlook the issue, the accuser will react violently that the certain individual is undeserving.

Repent and exploit God's forgiveness; it does not matter with God, even if you have  just one more year to retirement, a truly repentant heart moves God.

As we work this year, let's be mindful more of God's reward system and become one of His Faithfuls if you are not yet. Start NOW!!!

Don't listen to that devil, God is largesse with forgiveness. Use your leverage.

Another story about God's largesse in forgiveness is about a prodigal son that went with a portion of his father's wealth, spent everything wastefully, repented, came back remorseful and he was taking back like the immediate past never existed.

My prayer is that, we all get into the largesse of God's supply this year, following His way of doing things. Hiworks

Most Vital Leverage For Getting Ahead - Social Capital-Hiworks

Most Vital Leverage For Getting Ahead - Social Capital-Hiworks

Our Most Vital Leverage In Life Is Readily Available For Getting Ahead...Exploit Yours

It is high time Financial capital Intimidating potential is demystified, as well as others; Intellectual or Human, Material, Natural, Manufactured, Assets and these are not in any particular order.

There is a consensus, that the most important capital or resource is Human in any organization; Priced higher than money. However, if there is no Money, chances are you may not be able to build that human capital.

It is very easy to build an island around unavailability of financial capital when it's NOT a level 5 problem; level 5 of 100-the starter's level.

It's being advised by many business development gurus, that, it is better to experiment a new business with very low risk bearing capital.

This is where Social Capital Deployment comes to bear.

Social Capital, Layman Definition, is the value you command leveraging on Relationships you have built mostly directly and indirectly from the Day you were born to the Day you come across this Article... And you can not get the definition simpler than that.

Social Capital is mostly emotionally accrued over the years of interactions, with relations, friends, colleagues across our sphere of engagements and also very importantly across the sphere of engagements of the relations, friends and colleagues we interact with.

Social Capital can open unimaginable doors of opportunities that you may never be able to command even with highest level of education and financial capital.

For the purpose of example, one of my Siblings work a Federal Media Organization and by virtue of what she does so well, Technically, she has political access to certain Ministers and Commissioners, She can virtually take people to the living room of such political bigwigs; Bigwigs that people with financial capital and all will have to book appointment to see.

Some drivers and gatemen have such huge social capital,that can open unimaginable doors when you have them as friends. Some Tailors, Barbers,musicians will shock you with their Power of Access they carry.

Marriages have created huge social capital for many to exploit as well as Certain Relationships. People have gotten jobs and businesses just because they are related and born by certain Influential or Legacy Parents.

Some parents will invest in certain schools in view of the interactions and leverages that they anticipate their children will have in the future.

Inspite of all the handouts, the biggest contributions to growing Social Capital is the ones you invested yourself; from toddlers, primary school,secondary school, while learning your trade, or in higher institutions, when you got your job,or the business, how diligent you came across, the fidelity rating, the trust rating you built with your small breaks and all will add up to your Social Capital.

The other critical avenue to built a Social capital leverage is from friends and Colleagues you schooled and worked together  previously. Most of such interactions were closely engaging for more than 4years. And now with  the advent of social media and such like, the capital can grow exponentially and be leveraged for low risk financial capital, intellectual capital, material capital and more.

Social capital is a spring board when built on integrity and all. But also note that the news get round when it is abused. It is very difficult to rebuild a dented image. Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Reward and Responsibility by Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Reward and Responsibility by Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Reward & Responsibility in local parlance are 6&7.

Reward when it is normal is momentary and at transitional point of a trajectory.

Rewards are solemnized by feelings of achievement or punitive measures. Rewards points to the past and when over pampered become weights and clog in the Wheel of progress. Over celebrated rewards is another word for Pride. When one over-dwells on the past, it becomes a drag.

Responsibility culminates into reward and this is window of transition for deeper engagement and further show of Responsibility is expected.

For a baby to be delivered from pregnancy, both the Baby and the Mother have very important critical roles. The failure of either to play these crucial roles always put more responsibility on the medical team at delivery.

We call the reward of responsible fetus and mother Normal Delivery. Afterwards, Baby lives the solitary confinement of the womb and at the very climax of that exit, takes responsibility for oxygen in the blood systems by breathing and mum after the womb base caretaking does not go on 3 weeks break but picks up nursing and feeding the new born from the tenderly through the very crucial stages where others can join in the caretaking.

What will happen if the mother goes on three weeks leave, or baby decides to insist on belly button supply of food and oxygen???? We all know the obvious reward.

We can see that Rewards sometimes are so momentary that it seems very unnoticeable but Responsibilities are too tangible to overlook.

We have all watched football matches where a team that just score a goal, gets beating two goals down, while in the climax of the euphoria of the goal scored just few minutes back. In the same light, a team that just conceded a goal, is most likely to lose further within the few minutes of the loss.

Managing Gratification, Failure & Punitive Measures properly is crucial to Sustainable Success in Life.

I have observed lots of people look forward to retirement and at retirement, they degenerate so rapidly within the first few months that I wondered, what was triggered in their Psyche during the retirement, that aggravated the ageing process. A lot of people, few months into retirement become financially handicapped as most of their savings and benefits become consumed by depression and its bagwagon.
To live Long and Well, we must keep Discovering our Next Responsibilities and Consciously Playing Down On Gratifications, Failures, and Consequences Of Previous Acts Of Irresponsibility.

At retirement, one can pick up an advisory role, teaching, mentoring, or writing roles among many others like sales of goods and services, farming, sporting classes-teaching retirees by example on how to stay fit, open a gym.

For young ones without a job, volunteer somewhere, choose within 30-60mins walk distance from where you reside; you will definitely find someone that needs an extra hand. Pick up soft skill while waiting and volunteer to gain mastery of use; that will come handy on your next employment.

Above all, avoid all illegality; they are the biggest subtle killers of the creative potentials of the mind. Can you imagine doing three times more work just to commit a crime?
ODUSINA Adewale Hiworks

Take back your Guts!!!

Take back your Guts!!! 

Written on my 47th birthday 
By Odusina Adewale Hiworks

Be the Man or Woman; Bathroom to Boardroom;Unassuming, Unpretentious and Unafraid.

Take the Man singing in the Bathroom;
That King;
Take that King to the Boardroom
But with the Ferocity of the Lion

Take that Woman in the Kitchen;
That Home Builder;
That Queen in our elements;
Take that Woman to the Negotiations

Take that Baby, Boy or Girl;
That Baby Unassuming, Unpretentious and Unafraid;
Yes That Baby Personality to the Teenager He or She shall become.

Teenagers, Keep That Baby Personality; very Believing Personality; Unassuming, Unpretentious and Unafraid
Teenagers, don't loose that Baby Personality; very Believing Personality and Unafraid to the Adult you shall become.

Pause now!!! Know for sure
You shall be Pressed to Trade in Your Believing sometimes by those you believed in
You shall be taught otherwise by those that have chosen to be defined by certain fear; they've been deceived but do not know.

So, if you are already there, assuming, afraid and unbelieving in your guts, Shake off that beast and let the Lion arise from within.

Take back your Guts!!!

Do the exact thing the fear is afraid of; starve the fear.

Stand Tall, Believing Again

And Succeed.....at your passion.

Odusina Adewale Hiworks on my 47th birthday.

The Dynamics of Building a Great Business

In the Trajectory of a Great Business,are many confining Dynamics working against the pursuit of uncommonness. Hiworks

OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERYTHING-SO DIG DEEPER

OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERYTHING-SO DIG DEEPER

Every situation and indeed every Experience or Potentially Defining Negative Identity, Have  Value Chains Waiting To Be Exploited After all; One Just Needs To Dig for Enough Time To Find THEM

From Odusina Adewale Hiworks

What a Paradox! One might say, but it is the truth. Truth cannot be negated by someones experiences. And sometimes because your value chain have not been converted to monetary benefit should not negate the potential social equity.

Check out the following value chains

1. The awareness of a spate of burglary activities or an armed robberies or kidnapping at a particular season can initiate a substantial sales in security improvement mechanism; acquisition of dogs, reinforcement of access into facilities, bullet proofing of vehicles, acquisition of varieties of alarm systems, installation of electric perimeter fence, relocation to more secured estates and so on. Remember that certain people by virtue of their safety violation made public created such a huge value chain they may never be commissioned for. The above could trigger businesses in that season worth a billion dollars accross the world.

2. One can fall a victim of ones poor living lifestyle, and experience poor health challenges; diabetes, heart. Diseases,  breathing problems, sight defect, daring defect or any form of terminal concerns. Such victim may given six month to demise. Such can decide to write a book about how he or she got to this point of seemingly no return, what the doctor prescribed to remedy or relieve, the weekly improvement made,  the challenges of eating and drinking adjustment. He may not even be a professional writer and then outsourced to a publisher to turn this manuscript into a bestseller and multi-millionaire on full recovery or further decline. Such may start out the recovery therapy on issurance benefit and recover fully a millionaire or in death. Note carefully there would never have been a best seller, if there was not a health challenge.

3. At a funeral meeting,  most attendees reflect on the true meaning of life and only God can appreciate how much value chain this brings to peoples lifes; the divorce called off,the marriages healed, the bad habits dropped, the businesses set on the right cause, the brands established,  the excesses stopped,  the social responsibilities initiated, the foundations established and the pool could be worth Trillions of dollars every year.

4.Bankruptcy is one of the most dreaded status an organisation wants to be associated with and when any fall a victim of this in any particular year, the related organisations tend to a renewed commitment towards accountability and quality operational ethics. Sentiments are suspended,  people get sacked or relieved, more competent hands may be absorbed, a new appraisal system may be acquired,  staff may be retrained to facilitate the embrace of fresh innovation and technology.

5.Britain is one of the strongest economies of the world and yet very poorly in natural resources. They have evidently validated the power of human (intellectual and strong business ethics) and social equity over material resources.

6. One may have bad habit(s),  that have impacted greatly on performance in any capacity, that one has become seemingly permanently a victim of such. Another may become lamed from an accident and the most valuable asset of the body is lost ; sight of an engineer; one hand of a boxer;a leg for a sprinter and all kinds and so on.

The whole idea of this peace is that,  we only become The Victim by Choice.

But, When we refuse the victim status and tune in to an Opportunist, the mind will automatically explore the value chain of recovery.

So Dare to be another Success Definition and a Case Study. Help us have another confirmation that TRULY 'Every situation and indeed every Experience or Potentially Defining Negative Identity, Have  Value Chains Waiting To Be Exploited Afterall; One Just Needs To Dig for Enough Time To Find It'

FloodYour Mind&Soul WithLight (God'sWord):

FloodYour Mind&Soul WithLight (God'sWord):This'll rightly Pull foresightedly & from Hindsight Opportunities for Success. Hiworks

This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.
Joshua 1:8 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/jos.1.8.AMPC

#FloodYour Mind&Soul WithLight (God'sWord): Your Peace Mode Sustainability Clause.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 3:16 KJV
http://bible.com/1/col.3.16.KJV

You Change

#You Change:We are steps away from the narrative desired because some of us want the world to change first. The world may never change but You can and now. A light in the darkest night, always bring hope and creates a pull of attraction.