Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey
Glasgow, Scotland
1 Another Tale
Smooth jazz sipping
through Bang and Olofsson, high fidelity speakers, at a low intense tone, the
heavy, tight bass, just ticking off the beat at the right tempo to keep me
balanced, my heart beat is in synch with those bass beats. The day starts at
dawn, literary; no need for word play, at
A prayer, to set waking day off, a stroll to kitchen to start
coffee or tea, depending on how my mouth tastes like and a big glass of heated
orange juice. A perfect start to each working day, weekends are meant to be
slept deep into.
Ehm!, the morning is matured, full light, and it’s a bright world
out there, it could be anywhere on this unique planet, full of life, life for
the most part in languid states of various states of wakefulness, wherever sun
is up and lights are bright, there is an automatic adjustment, even sleep shifts
to a different level of mind state. I have done night work before; I know day
dreams of full day sleeps have a different quality to them than dreams that are
projected on mind screen in darkness of a twenty four hour day streaming to an
end.
Its 10:30 am, there is a silence to these parts of morning, when
every one us seated at their day tasks and all that keeps our artistry of
economic machinery is in full production mode. It’s quite on streets that have
been cleaned of previous night’s nightmare and are giving pretence of cheerful
city glow.
My office is on the sixth floor, four floors above ground level,
maybe twenty from the root of this mighty block of modernity, a seventy’s art
décor type stretching two blocks standing at intersection of two major city
junctions, right here in the centre of city centre. I have a pretty decent view
both in winter and summer, in winter, which ia faded white memory many months
old, a see straight through to the traffic light at the junction, where the
southern corner of this huge block begins. In summer, obstructed view enabled by
a full grown tree, that is full leaved and towers well above the tenth floor is
a becalming coverage of wind blown nature at its very best, I wouldn’t give up
this view for anything, obstruction and all.
Ideas like gentle breeze ruffle normal tedium of daily activities.
An article read somewhere questions why atletles, such as basketball players
receive more media attention than intelligentsia. Interesting, who lost are
those who pose those questions, they do so because more people are interested in
paying for tickets to attend basketball matches and football games for that
matter than to attend lectures and forums, which by all indications are afr less
interesting and people are ready to pay extra for sports channels to be tickled
by excitement of a game than pay for academic journals or read them free online
where it is made accessible. Why pose such meaningless questions, I wonder. It
is by popular vote, duh!
One enters employment as a necessity to met daily material
existence ends, in working places exist a social medium, where task remains a
precept that allows individuals to interact in a common shared space, working,
individually or as a shared responsibility to meet a common end, that common end
may find multiple expressions but a simple conception is that it enables
sustenance to source of employment and enables meeting a goal for those therein
employed.
A sales organization is an interesting setting it is by its very
nature a competitive environment that pits each individual against an external
entity that is an external world from which a demand exists and a desire must be
created to make a sale, making that sales and lots of it makes a successful
employee, while inability to make those sales renders one a liability that must
necessarily be discarded to keep working organization afloat. A sales
organisation exists because it has employees that irrespective of their
individual idiosyncrasies are capable of generating resources, of a financial
nature obviously to keep corporate entity afloat and there are certainly many of
such in various guises of corporate garb, right from rabidly aggressive stock
sellers to docile charity hunters with a righteous course to change situations
most humans will prefer not to be aware off.
Between a person who enters a sales organisation and external world
exists an internal social environment unique to each setting that is interesting
to observe and understand from a purely behavioural curiosity
perspective.
It is interesting, wherever more than four persons gather over
prolonged period, a social environment evolves where there is an interactive
dynamism of trade offs and acquiesces necessary to allow permissible dependency.
Where external pressures or delimitations as well as degree of shared space
required increase proportionately, then that dynamism becomes ever more intense,
while a lesser demand for accommodating another individual in close relation and
dependency permit a greater degree of individual preference to remain and thus
lowers intensity of social intercourse as self determined rather than situation
driven.
In all social situations while confidence is a plus in self driven
achievement and capability development, hubris is despised and a liability in
social interaction whereas sophrosyne, a prudent sense of consideration for
others and self control from being a centre of regular attention makes one a
respected and popular group member. Social settings necessarily evolve group
mentality not necessarily of a negative nature being mainly a normal human
disposition to aggregate in groups of perceived shared similarities.
Working environments are interesting each person wakes from his or
her home and shares a common space to achieve some defined end. Room is made for
reasonably accepted behaviour and responsibilities are apportioned according to
capability at primary task, mainly. Those who again access to organisations,
which for most part are constantly seeking o replenish and will constantly be
seeking for human mental and physical replacement for so long as mythical robots
have no been developed to a degree enough to assume human task often have three
choices, to find their work places agreeable and thrive, just be comfortable and
middle through till retirement for a decent salary or nothing finding an
agreeable environment move on to another organisation with its own evolved and
evolving culture and group tendencies. It is a simple conceptualisation of
humans at work but all complex systems inevitably break down to comprehensible
simplistic building blocks at myriad levels of
conceptualisation.
These demarcations of typologies are not by any means invariables,
rather middle positioning has a tendency of varying positively and beneficially
both for individual and corporate towards higher achievement or detractively
towards potential departees from a corporate entity and departess, who rather
than foist their dissatisfaction of wasting human potential in non beneficial
settings opt to try elsewhere. Two factors come into play mediating and
influencing eventual performance of any employee middling in zones that can only
be described as expectant regions of improvement or devolution to non
performing. These two factors are individual desire to find means and ways to
improve and directional influence of motivating leaders who can enable such
individuals to discover their full potentials and in employing such potentials
to excel.
When an organisational self classifies itself in a certain way it
begins to exist in a self fulfilling void of excellence above norm or routine of
committing same failures in a self destructive spiral that is one swoop removed
from cataclysmic black hole of self consumptive destruction. Vultures within can
pick at left over of unexplored potentials and bone pick dry a store of
possibilities left run dry. It is always a sad day when such vultures assume
responsibility. Like TYCOS CEO, like that single seemingly destructive infection
in that global French bank, they whittle a system from within to satisfy their
singular greed, all the time believing that there could possible be no
alternative way that portrays their strength other than abusing their positions
and opportunities through a vast orgiastic greed that totally defines new, self
applying rules of appropriacy.
In other instances determined organisational captains, with a
vision and a desire undeterred continually sustain growth through innovations
and ability to bear an organisation through periods of trail with a belief that
they as an entity have a destiny to fulfil to give their clients an offer, a
product, a breakthrough that they cannot ignore. These two forces are
extremities of a polarity that has a common source and a split point somewhere
along a trajectory of growth that sets them at opposite polarities with certain
consequences to their organisations.
From this mind states defining a vision, and a means to realise
that vision an organisations finds expression, it is beefed with willing souls
ready to commit to a course of shared ends and evolves to encapsulate a reality
greater in breadth than any one person, it becomes a vibrant self definitive
entity in a self defining reality where success means growth and failure results
in dissolution.
In between ideas and resolute determination is a field of idle
participants who do their bit and are rewarded for their bits, these cogs in
wheels of industrial machinery are not by any means insignificant, indeed they
are majority and exert utmost influence on many aspects of an organisation’s
operative outcome, yet they are limited by their decision influence. In these
majority is a pool of untapped talent that good organisations create a means of
tapping, pooling and employing to their benefit or being simplistically realised
operatives have little use of and do not call forth to complicate simple
processes.
In this place, during my time, I have seen many come and go, not
only those who at one point are having a bad stretch of sales luck, but even
those who were making their best sales ever. There is a palpable unease that
permeates at certain times every situation that is pressure powered, it could be
that these unnerving sense of driving pressures gets to some easier than others.
However, that remains to be verified. One is conscious that sales and call
centres have an sense of a “get me there” feel to them, that sense of transiting
from one thing less desirable to one more meaningful. Again, it is just an
attempt to give substance and meaning to a situation difficult to explain with
any sense of clarity, I guess it calls for a scientific exploration to gain
further understanding in indubitable
confirmation.
A person who excels in a task has either a natural talent for that
task or has acquired and mastered and translated that training into task
performance achieving a perfect fusion between knowledge acquisition and task
completion. Then comes variations of approximation to highest possible states of
performance which conceivably in middling performers can be improved through
inducement by training and motivation to draw strengths of reserve to lift
performance above mediocre with often expected outcomes of performance
improvement.
What is natural talent is an ease of implementing with ease desired
outcomes states with a seemingly ease that is not pervasive to all persons in
same engagement. Self perceived exertion at task performance is also experienced
as less intense than at other learned tasks. In sales job such as that which we
engaged in, we offered conferences to management personnel in Fortune 500
organizations, some do sale well others don’t. It is just how it is and
management’s effort is geared towards refining raw edges to ensure that product
introduction to potential clients, once access has been gained via telephone is
effectively done to generate required interest that gears a conferences theme
and presentation to relevant areas related to corporate growth.
It is a simple enough task and properly conducted and aligned with
an individuals interest and willingness to part with a significant payment and
desire to travel to a foreign location mainly within the EU region, it is a done
deal. It means money in sales persons pocket and organizational success, each
miniscule effort is an atom in ensuring organisational
continuity.
For most part it a self driven desire of foreigners in a far
country with limited choices by way of employment, it is a dedication to achieve
a dream to spring out of poverty and frustration of economies in tropical lands
that have yet to find their centre of stability and become a pillar of hope for
millions languishing in material want and despair. To most persons who enter
into employment it is a test against self to excel against challenges and to
make their life meaningful.
The group in its various stratifications come work together to
promote success as a collective effort and can be violated by personal bias of
immature participants working to promote their self interest. However, who is
worthy when all from same source take their origin as struggling souls randomly
favoured to make a meaningful existence? In work groups a leader’s task is to
focus attention on primary tasks that set organizational agenda at centre of all
activities within corporate property and de-emphasise personal, non
organisational concerns. Pursued effectively it allows even those with pressing
personal issues to find a place of escape in the eight hours of working time and
enables a zone where their energies can be positively transformed to corporate
benefit.
Corporate entities have adapted to remove individual and placed
corporate objectives at core of management and individual performance
assessment, this superimposes corporate identity over and above individual
idiosyncrasies. How this finds expression differs from entity to entity given
how these corporate objective steering goals were defined and adaptively evolved
under different leadership to define what an organisations has evolved to be as
an entity. That nature of an organisation is its culture. It is a collective
acceptance strained through all human and non human processes working over time
to give a clearly identifiable expression of what a particular organisation
defines as rudimentary of expressive
characteristic.
The corporate has become a social forum for identifying raw human
talent attracting and training to become an efficient performance element
promoting an organisation’s goal. It is leadership that shapes a vision that
becomes a goal attainable transfused through an organisation’s management
structure to become a sturdy framework for corporate long term
viability.
Successful organisations are those who create shared platform of
inveigled shared responsibility, employees that are socialised to see themselves
as part of a shared responsibility are willing to give everything to sustain it
over long term.
This perception of how “we prefer our organisation to run and
perform through its employees” is not a fixed state that once attained remains
unresponsive to change and its pressures thereof, its an expandable state of
desirability that is commodious in adaptively responding to assume newer states
of preference along several factor
determinable.
Reflections, capturing mind’s screen, painting thought projections
on a passing scenario and a time gone by.
2 Back to the
Past
Dragging a rope that is wet with salty water of lagoon with its
muddy bottom and heavily soaked rope, permeated with deep dark waters of languid
lagoon weighs a ton. I reach back, many years back, traversing back into past
dragrope fishing expedition on Keta lagoon. Peculiar way of fishing; drag rope
fishing, but a common one in this lagoon region of West Africa, a thick, heavy,
rope is held along a stretch of several hundreds of meters and dragged along
bottom mud of lagoon. Lagoon itself stretches over several 100 kilometres square
area with water depth for several kilometres never quite rising above 5 feet,
you look through translucent water and pick fishes stuck into mud by dragged
rope and what a feast of tilapias it often was, everyone went home with
basketful of fishes. Dragrope fishing is a communal activity, it takes many
persons to make it successful and those dragging rope ends take a contribution
from everyone else who is following rope and picking fishes stuck in slippery
bottom mud.
There is a sandy
strip and on the other side, unsettling, roaring
I have often wondered in recent times, for a town so organized who
kept a photographic documentation of how this angry unceasing beat, battered and
eroded off surface of earth this quaint little town I had lived in?
Who records disaster systematically, as it causes affliction, as
for severely afflicted, they are wounded, incapable of full reasoning, caught
amidst grinding pain of seemingly insurmountable losses. Just after thoughts of
what could have been done and yet never quite turned into reality at point of
happenstance.
Reflections are similar to experiencing a timeless awareness a step
removed from existing states of awareness, more akin to distractive displacement
of a late afternoon summer day that sets noise of day just beyond a thin veneer
of self, looking at its activities on a faint
screen.
What we perceive as acceptable and meaningful is a distillation of
our interpretation of objective reality subjected to a self defining
reasonableness. Knowledge itself being a growth process of devolution to gaining
greater awareness through demystification of chunks of reality perceived as
understood and in being understood open a path for further understanding through
a process of “detailisation” of bits of larger chunks. The process of course
works in opposite manner as well where microcosmic perceptions enable better
interpretation of macrocosmic phenomenon, altogether it is
complementary.
Humans by their very designation and construct were not disposed to
a placid lifestyle of non engagement; everything about human characteristic from
mental acuity to physical designation indicate a creature who must interact
proactively with its environment to fulfil its material needs and ends. Over
time, humans can now accept that there is no limitation to what their minds can
coerce out of their planetary heritage along certain dimensions of expectations,
though natural barriers act as levels of paucity to enable maturation at one
point to cause a shift to a higher more sophisticated level with likely better
fulfilment from an earlier comparable state.
It is expected that all actions are well tough off and examined
from all angles before commitment. An action that by all its indications is
poorly thought off, irrational in conduct and poorly assessed in its impact
value must come from a decision source that is incapable of complete thought
processing, coming short before determining short and long term effects of
action consequence, such actions, impulsive, puerile and incomplete are not
expected of organizational leaders, neither must organisational leaders lose
sight of a need to teach this wholesome idea assessment through collective
engagement and evaluation to narrow and lower detrimental effects of obviate
efforts to add value at one end without incurring unnecessary costs at another
end of a systemic whole.
On a bright morning a helicopter was buzzing far over head, its
“whup, whup” noise increased in crescendo and it was apparently coming to land
in our town between two water bodies. Must have been my first time of seeing
that wieldy birdlike contraption, there was no big surprise, I just took it in
stride, however, everyone wondered who was piloting that contraption, from a
distant it was shouted, it is Colonel Deku, a local boy made good who was on a
mission to visit our little town. It was a decisive moment of political shift,
an elected government has been kicked out of office and soldiers had taken over
national government.
3 - Speech – We Intend –
We intend to widen existing scope of opportunities for this nation,
its people and ensure that collectively everyone has equal benefits of its
resources while not denying enabled input that in its absence causes creativity
to be stunted.
This nation will not allow leaders who undermine collective
confidence by denying resource inputs to its starved collective and denying
assistance to those who need to be lifted up.
This nation has to lift up its tottering masses that they must
become driving forces of needed change to reconstruct decayed structures of
traditional societies into communities better prepared to sustain times
unrelenting progress.
Population is increasing; prior existing states are tumbling,
presently enabled provisions are far too inadequate, calling into question a
need for review of how these nations ought to align their resources to meeting
their needs. It is a simple question of survival at community and nation
level.
Some progress has been made, much progress remains to be made and
it can only be done by ensuring that where darkness and forlornness had denied
hope, decisive actions of well framed ideas executed will bring forth a burst of
unrestrained growth and progress. This we need and we must attain if there is to
be a meaningful future for this nation among community of
nations.
Enabling those who are marginalised to benefit from our common
resource should not threaten those who have made some effort that has set them
ahead of others, rather, by being successful they have become a means for taking
advantage of first starters and being shoulder upon which their brothers and
sisters can lean. Together, we intend to make this nation a better place, we
would build on what has been attained by those who have contributed to national
development and we intend to add significantly to their contributions, working
with a well informed, unhindered and engaged
citizenry.
We as a people, a community of tribes with a rich history and a
worthy culture know that endurance of deprivations has its limits. Daily, we are
involved in developing, improving and sustaining what we consider are worthy
qualities of existence. We intend to broaden scope of what passes for worthy
existence drawing on a species collective, intellectual resources over millennia
and give our life in this human collective a greater scope for defining wider
meaningfulness. We do not believe in idealistic musings, yet we believe in a
brighter prospect far beyond what is presently, generally available to masses
who are barely eking out meaningful existence in deplorable states in nation
that is God’s gift to mankind.
Our attained state of developing, ought to inspire us to commit
more effort to adding value to what we
have attained as a nation, given examples abounding globally of what is possible
and how we can push beyond barriers of self imposed limitations. We are poised
to generate more creative avenues of engaging our under-employed people given
resources enabled us by humanity as a whole, yet we are currently caught in a
slumber of inexcusable, lamentable lack of activity in various and many required
fields of productive engagement.
Our promises are worthy thoughts of knowledgeable men to be
executed in concrete renditions of human progress. We believe in social
nurturance of a kind not altogether different from love of a mother for her
forbears that desires and seeks only what is of best and greatest value for
those greatly cherished. We cherish our national heritage, a distinct effort by
a collective of humans to add wider dimension to humans’ state of physical
existence; we intend to sharpen our perspective on that collective heritage to
make it shine even brighter in our midst.
We intend to attract our people to stay and share in something
worthwhile of human effort. To create meaningful dimensions of engagement that
make our people believe that they are actually engaged in nation building, a
progressive restructuring of those elements of human community building that
will stand the test of time, a nation that they will with pride pass on to their
children as a worthy inheritance and this effort ought not to be marginalised to
a few but every single one who is of this land.
A nation they have worked through these generations to make a
distinct place among nations, we intend not only to retain our best and
brightest but even when they reach out to discover, leaving to other places of
human excellence, they will remember that they are of a place worthy of
existence and identifying with and will willingly return when their sojourn
abroad is fulfilled.
This land is ours, a place where we have found physical expression,
one that we intend to improve, giving more to it, each our lifetime than we had
received, an endowment for our children and a hope of possibilities of what
human will, disciplined and under determined leadership can attain.
What we dream of is a bringing our individual and collective dreams
of what is possibly best in our existing capabilities and in each individual
life and to give it expression in our lifetimes, believing that we can change
our existing state and make it ever more desirable. Our limitations are more or
less determined by our imaginations overcoming our self imposed inhibitions. We
must become giants in thought rendering gigantic accomplishments in our times
for we can and there is a need for these accomplishments. For each of us, it
only our lifetimes to consider, and in that period of existence let us make it a
lifetime of unlimited and unbounded
accomplishments.
It means our schools will no longer be sheds set amidst dusty
abandonment but taking a cue from simplicity of missionary education and its
constructs to continue to develop academic centres of culture and knowledge
acquisition set amidst our times best technological capabilities. We ought to
cherish what our collective human intellect has made possible and live those
possibilities as structures in which humanity celebrates life as a gift most
worthy of a loving Creator.
Make no mistake, our existence as a nation is simply due to its
human resources, each life, each person is worthy more than their weight in
diamonds, without them we are not, so we intend to make each life a gift most
treasured. A leader articulates a purpose and work together with their community
to make it a possibility, we intend to do
that.
We are a nation awakening from traditional past into a giddy post
modern age, the industrial age seems to have even galloped past us, we lived in
its shadows and became keenly sensitised to our lack in defaults of lack of
development as traditional societies, no longer sustainable by a purely
agro-traditional practice and process. We will no longer delay in engaging our
collective intellect in reaching for palpable future using our traditional
values a guide but not a hindrance to escalating social growth and
development.
We seek input from each and every mind, criticism is only useful if
it is a criticism that adds value by engaging corrective measures rather than an
empty anger of what by all definitions is collective responsibility.
Who is a government other than those governed, can a government
stand outside those it governs? Be of an enquiring mind rather than accepting
what another postulates, think and add to our commonwealth of shared
values.
Undeveloped urban
slums must be redeveloped to modern communities. Slums impose more cost on
their environments and under mine national developmental efforts, those who are
forced by circumstances to dwell therein soon are infected by a severity of lack
of hope that only those are determined can escape and see how many have escaped
its gripping hold, how many more will minds liberated and given pleasant places
to mature and reflect will have been of benefit to
us.
Significant numbers of people are still living in sub standard
houses and dwelling places that could be improved upon. In rebuilding and
restructuring our nation to become developmentally more positioned to take
advantage of human developments hitherto, we need to reconsider the whole
concept of community development. We are not only building communities, but
communities that are self sustainable by being total economic zones providing,
shelter, education, health, social services and work for those who dwell in
these designated communities and by their design and construct infuse a growth
dynamism in these communities that allows them to become means of driving their
dependent economies.
Quote - Between 1925 and 1930
These settlements were low-rise, no more than 5 stories, and in
suburban settings. Residents were provided access to light, air, and sun. The
size, shape, orientation and architectural style of Germany's public housing
were informed by the recent experience of the Vienese and the Dutch, the
anti-urban Garden City Movement in Britain, by new industrialized mass-production and
pre-fabrication building techniques, by the novel use of steel and glass, and by
the progressive-liberal policies of the Social
Democrats.
Architect Martin Wagner (with Bruno Taut) was responsible for the thousands of dwellings built in and around
Additional quote from Wikipedia - The New
In the context of a housing shortage and a degree of political
instability, May assembled a powerful staff of progressive architects and
initiated a large-scale housing development program. May's developments were
remarkable for the time for being compact, semi-independent, well-equipped with
community elements like playgrounds, schools, theatres, and common washing
areas. For the sake of economy and construction speed May used simplified,
prefabricated forms. These settlements are still marked by their functionality
and the way they manifest egalitarian ideals such as equal access to sunlight,
air, and common areas. Of these settlements the best known is probably
Römerstadt, and some of the structures are colloquially known as
Zickzackhausen.
In 1926 May sent for Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky to
join him in
May's
Quote - Preservationists in
Quote - "History has been written
today," said Renee Lewis Glover, AHA president and CEO. "These approvals mean
the end of the 73 years of housing projects in
"In the
1930s, public housing was an amazingly far-sighted approach to the nation's
critical shortage of housing," Glover said. "But in the 21st Century, a new
approach is necessary -- one that integrates the families into the mainstream
economy. Isolating poor families apart from the mainstream is wrong. The costs,
financial, human, and social are staggering."
Building new
structures to house poverty is just giving a face lift to poverty to build new
communities that will replace slums requires a total mind and philosophic
re-orientation as to how to upgrade a nation’s quality of living integrate
success into its very fibre at community levels, this means that those elements
that are required to ensure a sustainable quality of life over long term
perspectives have to be integrated into new communities. A community under
development in developing nations especially in
We need universal day care
systems that allow women to leave their young children under properly
monitored care, we need improved primary
education in proper educational structures both physical and curricula wise
to ensure that schools become cultural centres that natural attract children to
experience education beyond anything presently
conceivable.
Replacing existing slums, we need secondary and technical
institutions in these communities that play dual roles of training adult males
and females to acquire new skills working together with manufacturing and
service businesses integrated in these communities to ensure that adults are
occupied in sustainable employment or training programs that they reflect a
positive expectation of life that brightens their children’s futures.
These are what are required to redevelop slums, it goes far beyond
physical upgrading albeit this is by far primary to change structures in slum
dwellings. We are of course open to receive input from electorate on how to
refine and upgrade our perspective on realising these goals for urban social
upgrading.
To redevelop land occupied by slums in essence implies a
redevelopment of valuable property under-utilised to create property that is
designed to highlight private ownership, which again requires development of
infrastructure that has appeal for users to retain and acquire, whether it is
mainly designed as single unit family dwellings or shared housing units, design
must call into purpose a high quality community that provides for prior slums
occupants as well attracting inflow from other areas, this of course implies
that provisions must be comprehensively appealing across all income ranges. To
invest in such projects implies investment into a tenable future with provisions
integrated to ensure project long term
sustenance.
Environmental
friendliness and green areas that should serve
as pressure release zones and parks in urban communities, well spaced buildings
that alleviate a sense of over crowding, individual entries and a right to
privacy and private property ought to be the philosophic guidelines in community
design and development at all stages.
Nation wide housing
policies have to be configured that allow effective implementation of rural
housing and adequate infrastructure for individuals who fall outside large scale
community projects. In our rural areas agrarian workers must have access to
housing provisions through intermediary financials services and construction
implementation agencies coordinated at district and local levels to deliver
housing needs.
Coordination at all levels will ensure that resource waste is minimised and
resource use is optimised through efficient and monitored management approaches.
Tangible project choices designated to have long term value is what is being
aimed for. Loans must be transferable or repurchasable by financial
institutions. Real values of properties must be increasing through time, thus quality rather than broad rendition
should be guideline in this area of development. No government investment into
infrastructure development will be a waste where it can be helped, full value
must be redeemed, government projects must have highest desirability at all
levels because governments are elected to act in lieu of the populace, to it
manages in its interest of collective responsibility and as such resources must
yield constant value added benefit.
A community must
necessarily drive economy, houses with
pre-installed refrigerators, cooking stoves and ovens, ease of acquisition of
information and entertainment media components and equipments means that local
assembly plants integrated into community industrial zones and the need for
re-quipping households with new equipments for pre-installed basic units for cooking,
storage and washing ensures that employment from old equipment disassemble
and reprocessing as well forwarding for raw materials for more efficient
equipments every decade will become now, not only community renewal efforts but
also essential aspects of sustaining local economies through creation of easy
markets for manufactured products. Economies are carefully staged plans that
must be managed to remain sustainable over long term. Again we are open to
additional contributions as to how to widen scope of these areas of our
development agenda.
Community maintenance must again come into focus as an area that
must be all defined, planned and executed, many projects fail because they lack
long term maintenance while mediocre
projects remain far beyond projected periods of viable existence because proper
maintenance is enabled.
Proper and long
term project maintenance is not an issue of
a culture or a lack thereof but a pragmatic approach to job creation and job
maintenance. Maintenance provides where properly planned and realised life term
employment and ensures that communities can adapt to changes and renew
themselves through proper care. It also means that rent paid for maintenance and
aesthetics are properly used and made directly beneficial to a community and its
inhabitants.
Employment
generation is a tricky area for every government, governments do not and cannot
pull out jobs from thin air but must exercise several choices, among which are
direct investment to bring manufacturing and service jobs, enhancing local
resources use through processing, build heavy industries to provide engines of
economic growth from an industrial perspective, creatively open avenues of
socio-economic activities that create sustainable employment, widen scope of
existing activities to encompass wider and deeper perspectives to increase
demand for labour and brain power, passing legislations that allow greater
incentive for private and external interests with capital to invest in our
economies and ensuring that infrastructure maintenance, priorily mentioned and
re-emphasised is properly constituted at multiple layers of nation and community
to be sustainable, taxable employment medium.
What this means is that we ought to think of adding value and
dignity to certain tasks that must necessarily be performed to keep our
communities attractive and allow those who are interested in those areas of work
to perform their task with ease and at utmost efficiency. Replacement and use of
technology and equipment can easily and significantly change hard and burdensome
chores to desirable employment forms.
We live in a nation where even burial places ought to be re-planned
and made orderly to be appealing resting places for our lovely departed, if such
issues are not brought up for consideration, planning and review they will never
be attended to. Why is there such a great difference between a church burial
hundreds of years old, a military resting place for servicemen and a community
operated plot. We need to bring order
and planning to every area of our community and nation that resonates with a
well coordinated national expectation rather than peripatetic individual
expressions of idealisms that are at discordance with carefully evolved area
development plans.
To ensure that as intelligent humans we reflect that intelligence,
aesthetically, in our living and working spaces and environments. How about
increasing land use by encouraging crematoriums, is this culturally too shocking
or are we sophisticated enough to perceive its positive values?
As populations increases and pressures rises on limited space, it
is only proper planning and implementation that will ensure that we additively
continue to improve our life qualities across a broad
spectrum.
Nation’s under good leadership with a determination to push barriers of existing possibilities
have made possible projects that have changed previously dismal face of nations
all over our world, in our own ways if all our waste waters were cleaned and
channelled to a central collection point can they become treated rivers that
drives power generation for a community of a hundred thousand, can such
reprocessed primary resource find a source of verification, testing and
implementation, in an intelligent world, where nature has shown as a path we
know that we need to maximise our resources at every stage and level.
Presently sewerage
treatment is almost non existent. However, unless we treat and purify used
water and return it to river systems whatever value and contribution they make
as flowing water sources will not be attained. We need to be efficient in scarce
resource use, such cleaned water are better employed when cleaned and
re-discharged into stream and river systems rather than allowed to be contain in
a million underground cisterns with questionable impact on overall quality of
ground water.
Focusing on water and its use, should our river systems dispose
such vast drinkable waters into oceans or should at least 50% of this good water
become exportable commodities piped to Sahel regions, outlandish but
inconceivable, I don’t think so. What do you
think?
In our expectations we
need to curtail what is feasible in a loosely guarded realm of possibilities and
work to realise those, we need to work
intelligently not only by mere brute force, we live and work assumes larger
part of our adult lives, our work lives ought not be drudgery but carefully
planned can be a daily existence of bliss and why
not?
Our modern lifestyle is
an artefact of collective mind seeking improvements and adding values at myriad
interfaces of human physical and material existence, we intend to maximise its
abilities through infusion in communities we intend to develop that these
communities generate sustainable needs that can drive our socio-economic
reality.
Our public transport
systems need to be revamped, we need major urban public transport systems
that are capable of moving large masses at a time without generating traffic
jams, comfortable and aesthetically appealing enough for many to prefer them as
modes of transport to expensive alternatives that are environmentally less
friendly. We need and we intend to develop urban light rail systems and work to
develop a West African regional super speed rail corridor systems of supportive
interdependent flow incorporating as many countries as are willing to
participate. We have a need to fulfil these pressings demands and we intend to
fulfil these needs.
Private
investments cater to particular interest where there is a possibility of making
good returns on investment, which necessarily must be encouraged and adequate
room created in policies to safeguard investments that add value to system
whole. Progress at one level means progress at all levels, we believe in
successful entrepreneurship and
desire a nation of successful adventurers. Get wealthy in your business drives
and create opportunities that add value at a wider dimension without undermining
system value. It has been done and we will encourage it by every means
possible.
We intend to provide a viable platform for individual success
for every person in this nation, reorganised system reinvestment of resources
will not only stream line certain activity sets but becomes basis for sustainable employment
generation.
By providing school
kitchens properly managed and supervised to both government and private
catering businesses we not only ensure that no child will ever sit in class with
growling stomach for lack of breakfast and lunch but ensure that knowledge
acquisition has been enabled on a better platform for long term value ends. It
means parents are less worried about quality of food children consume and lowers
risk of food and water borne disease among our youth and children. Multiple
benefits at one decisive stroke of creative decision making by government and
citizens deserve this.
The economic benefits in sustenance of local agricultural production and food
processing can only begin to be imagined.
By restructuring tax
distributions by ensuring direct benefits each child will have a monthly stipend that ensures that no
child will be denied access to sufficient basic pocket money for childhood
needs, neither will poverty be a frustration driving parents to desperate
ends.
To achieve this we need to increase number of healthy adults in
sustainable employments and we intend to work to create those employments
avenues with many sectors.
Our economy is a refined game of cycling resources, monetary and
non-monetary, increasing complexity by adding factor variables by way of
organisations and capital owners providing means of employment which
collectively contributes to our collective well
being.
This requires both resourcing to traditional employments avenues as
well other sustainable forms of long term engagement that can be formalised and
integrated into national economic systems, where resources are made available to
position these individual and group efforts and make them contributors to
national economic sustainability. It requires a close interplay of doves and
hawks to ensure that opportunities are equally matched by responsible discharge
of duty and requirement.
Governments are
elected to ensure sustenance of their nations and its
communities by activating through creative engagement resources available to
them to ensure improvement and future sustainability of nations and communities.
There are no hard and fast rules as to how these is achieved however, employing
all vast resources at a nation’s collective capacity to provide adequate
housing, education, employment and means of power and energy, health,
transportation, safety and social stability for each and every person is an
expected end result of government’s activities. It is an end activity that is
fulfilled by creating effective economic medium for efficient production,
service provision and manufacturing at as many identified interfaces as possible
to satisfy local, internal needs and sell to external markets to generate
monetary wealth to run national development. How well, a nation is able to
maximise its natural endowment to make its economic machinery a self driven long
term sustainable endeavour underlies success or failure of that nation and its
successive governments.
There are challenges, without doubt, there are frustrations, and
stumbling blocks to what at beginning stage of conceptualisation may seem easy
and ought to be done quickly. There are
good projects taking to long to
complete, some we may never see fulfilled in our lifetimes, yet this is human
nature to dream of what is inconceivable and make it a reality sui generis.
We have been blessed to
have many reference points from others experimentation in less ideal
circumstances to adapt and polish to higher value points for implementation; we
are inheritors of a human intellect
of prodigious proportions, information and intellectual resources to consult for
our benefit. What cause do we have for delay and
procrastination?
Our times are heady times for facing up to challenges to create
theme parks of highest aspirations within which we live in pleasant
thankfulness. We ought and we must create a place we will love to live in and
cherish all our live, let us make it a reality. It is not fanciful to desire to
live at highest possible level of qualified existence neither shall a government
waste limited resources on projects other than those that merit highest quality. You do agree with
me?
Our collective resources
are limited and we intend to make value out of them at every step of their
employment to collective benefit.
There is a politics that
serves its own interest, which is to serve misguided persons assuming
positions that they ought not occupy.
Then there are seriously intentioned governments that have a responsibility and obligation to their
electorate to plan and deliver projects projected according to a time table.
A functional grouping of willing minds who have presented their charter to an
attentive audience, which in this case is a nation and is held bound to deliver
those promises. Such responsible governments cannot make fanciful meaningless
promises; they have to engage in evaluative considerations, of an
exhaustive nature that sets idealism within a parameter of a certain achievable
reality.
Governments in developing nations have a strong role as regulators of a growing system that
must be harnessed to ensure compliance lest meaningful effort is wasted for
wrong and inappropriate execution.
We see this all around us, basic foundations of community development
are lacking, as individuals, we are sensitively conscious of these yet at
leadership levels there seems to be a total eclipse of reality. One begins to
ask questions for which each and every one seeks answers, yet for which
governments which are responsible for their implementation seem to lack
awareness of-
Where and when are communities nation wide going to have sewerage processing
systems?
When is there going o be 100% potable water, after all we live
in tropical regions with major rivers spilling fresh sweet river water by
billions of gallons into a salty sea?
When do we turn our water
resources into exportable commodity?
Where are regional and
Mission Universities?
And on and on these questions go-
Are these daunting tasks or
a joy for us to make possible these things because we lack them in our
lifetimes? Are these not reasons why men work to build nations in our times? If
the answer is yes, then what are we doing?
Now, pose these questions
to your representatives in government who you pay with your taxes, good pay
packets so they can focus on their responsibilities to deliver your needs and
engineer progress. When you pose these questions and they cannot answer don’t
elect them into offices of responsibility because they are not cut out to fulfil
your expectations, seek those who have answer as to what, how and when and hold
them to their promises come election time.
When they provide answers hold them to task during mid term
elections. They owe you, who pay their wages and provide them with creature
comforts to ensure that all of government machinery work by collective
engagement or coercion to deliver
results expected by their populace. Do you agree with
me?
Don’t seek and expect vacuous promises, seek projects that
bring meaning to your community and ensure they are realised. These are your
expectations and when they are not met find out why not and how they can be
realised and most importantly when these projects are projected to be completed
and then hold them to their promises. You are duty bound to seek and be
informed.
Such that it is no longer why is no body doing something about this
obvious, but when, how and by whom it will be done. You as citizens of
communities and a nation are powers to whom responsibility of government
devolves not vice versa. If they don’t perform get rid of
them.
In this era of mass
communications let your representatives have web sites, blog sites, where you can
pose your question and let their answers be open to every ones assessment. From
president to village representative elective, they have a responsibility and it
is to open communication channels where their discharge of duty is accessibly
review-able and conditional to public approval.
Let their answers be final
attestable sources rather than journalistic musings inasmuch as these add
value to collective information needs. It can be done, therefore let it be
fulfilled, so that no one is hiding behind spider webs of befuddlement,
deceiving those they represent. A political post is open to constant review, if
you as a person are not cut out for it, then, be an advisor to those who can
take its heat and exposure. Do you agree
with me?
To represent your
nation an its citizenry is not a task for the light minded, it is a calling
forth of matured and experienced minds who have something to give by way of
acute managerial skills and administrative capabilities in proactive engagement
to add value to their systems.
It is not a focus on any
individual persona playing to a gallery of ignorance but a responsibility to
work to lift your community and nation through great sacrifice and commitment.
Your community can enable you through a comfortable pay, pension and provisions
so that you can be fully dedicated in your task, reciprocate their favour by
being a good leader. Each one working with your government has a leadership
responsibility of blazing new paths and finding creative solutions to
challenging issues.
This is why we advocate a national think tank base, a viable,
idea acknowledging, idea resourcing
centre, which will seek for and record and make ideas available for
implementation consideration from all sources.
What this means is a national development think tank base
with regional and district offices where ideas are collated, accredited and open
to public review and a decision for implementation on each idea garnered either
through individual and corporate support or direct government implementation as
indicated. Open political systems are expected to create open idea exchange
forums where idea can be easily and willingly presented by citizenry and those
interested in creating a developmental and economic base for production in that
community to present their ideas and seek support for idea implementation. For
developing nations there is more need to resource for idea that can drive
development to be integrated into predictable structures under consideration for
implementation and those under implementation. It is up to a society, a
community and its leaders to create a practicable and functional forum for these
idea harnessing and management process at several layers within overall social
construct. Ideas gathered, followed through to execution and accessed on merit
of value added to system whole in short and long term
basis.
These centres become an intellectual and creative forum where
ideas can be presented and critically reviewed, where students sent out on
government scholarships have a forum for presenting their value ends to a nation
to give account of community resources spent to educate them and there is no end
to what such idea collative centres can mean to nation development. They
eventually become feeder to a National
Development Institution coordinating professionally national
development.
Simply put, when a person makes an enquiry why are their open
gutters? Why are all electricity cables
not put underground?, there must be a professional body capable of
harnessing such simple but system defining questions for further consideration
and ultimate implementation. These are greatly appreciated sources of system
changing ideas.
Every time we are faced with problems, what it implies in its
fundamental exigency is that we have to redo projects that we poorly
implemented, which means we are faced with a choice of letting ugly scars on our
collective landscape remain or re-build
and create employment avenues in that process with added benefits of
improving overall quality of life. We must obviously not be afraid or hesitant
to redress and rebuild no matter how extensive.
What matters is, planning
projects that can successfully be completed rather than allowing decadent
states to prevail where grandiose ideas, lightly considered and set into motion,
cause a bleed in collective wealth with no sight to their benefit to system
overall. We are given intelligence to constantly improve not be complacent
accepting mediocrity as inevitable, that is unintelligence and a waste of our
mental resources.
Why is a nation
facing the
A president can handle only so much information, there is a need
for a professional body for idea
harnessing and idea processing and they must be paid from public purse and
made responsible for every question and idea brought to their attention on a
publicly accessible information website.
Education must assume a highly digitised support format that ensures easy access to collective body of
knowledge available to human specie at each and every individual level, this
is a responsibility developing nations must necessarily face and resolve by
providing necessary infrastructure that enables easy access to collective
intellectual database available for all of humanity to use productively. We
intend to face and make this possible.
There is no continent more
disposed to democracy than
Decadence and decay in thought, idea and construct must be
eliminated giving way to a freshened environment of modernisation that adds
broad value to human physical and material existence through adoption of
innovative strategies of modern influence.
Our system of citizen
identification should be enhanced to ensure that every single soul is
accountable for, this will ensure that government can provide and monitor system
sustenance provisions for each and every citizen as well ensure that every
individual is contributing to system whole, this can only be done through an
effective citizen identification system electronically linked and accessible at
all points of need and use to enhance quality of existence and make it easier
for socio-economic transactions to be fulfilled with ease. Again its details
while easily conceptualised are without limitations in its enhancements and
contributions across aboard are welcome from
all.
Identification goes beyond identity cards, this are necessary but
it ensures that agencies can trace and ensure that benefits accruing to each
citizen is easily enabled and differential supports put in place to marginalise
gaps in socio-economic states are successfully implemented. It ensures that no
one is hidden from agencies whose purpose is to help citizens maximise their
full potentials.
Economic
transactions can be enabled through fully electronic medium if identification
systems are fully and comprehensively enabled through secured connections
nationwide integrating into a continental network. This attained, will enable a
central database storing secured identification information for every person, at
community, national and continental level.
Energy
requirements for national development is always of critical consideration, we may
still develop some hydro projects but as far we know contribution from that
sector is limited, we need to begin given a lack of functional alternatives
including nuclear power plants that can create atomic reactions to generate
steam to drive or generators. Of course proper disposal of nuclear waste is of
primary concern and consideration, however, others have blazed this path and we
can learn from them.
Energy
production like every other element of value added discovery is a process in
constant development with new ideas and forms of energy production gaining
breakthrough on a global scale. Implications are that our country needs to be
open to taking cue and adding new forms of community and unit housing energy
production that are environmentally sensitive and less damaging set against
other options.
Bio focused energy
production options as well as traditional reliable energy sources have to be
continued developed to enable our communities to have adequate energy sources to
power their developmental and consumer needs.
An agenda must postulate and present carefully
detailed and verifiable means of indicating how those postulations can be
fulfilled, such that an agenda presented not only gives hope to a people but
also becomes a verifiable benchmark to ascertain how a political party has
performed within a time scope. This implies that postulations matched with how
they are actually realised within a carefully grafted time table becomes a
verifiable means of ascertaining performance of a
government.
If a party presents a project for urban rail transport, then it must in
due course present maps and project implementation within scope of existing
capabilities of a nation or its resource acquisition
thereof.
A public sensitised to its democratic obligations and
responsibilities must necessarily, simple put, insist on follow through of proposals
that puts pressure to ensure that initiatives are activated that bring worthy
ideas to completion.
Who best to put pressure on government than those who stand to benefit directly
from projects fully implemented?
How about an active
press keeping tabs on promises made by those seeking leadership positions
and responsibilities? A constant
reminder, publicly displayed to remind elected that promises are made and
these must be fulfilled. Reminders run
on a daily basis on all major newspapers as a means of keeping governments
on course of responsible discharge of their
duties?
Existing
developments plans in implementation must be followed to completion for
any and all things began are for common benefit and not identifiable per se with
a person or a party, they are for a nation, a society and a community. Continuity must be engendered and
nurtured in government sponsored developments to ensure that what has been
approved by parliament to be of benefit to a community is successfully
completed.
Old
projects planned as foundations for national growth must be dusted up and
reviewed for lack of some of essential provisions thereof have undermined
national development on full benefits of other projects planned on assumption of
completion of those prior projects.
Development is a
systematic step wise process interfaced with
jumps at some levels as systems shift intellectually and technologically,
everything has a value that must be fully realised. We intend to review and
ensure compliance.
As governments invests
into different sectors of our economy we are not only keeping our country
functional but we also exercising foresight to fact that government is claiming
investable resources in a future where private investment will command a
significant portion of our economic activities, where government is actively
co-operating to provide sustainable economic mediums that are self functionally
profitable to sustain their employees and contribute to tax base.
Economic
evolution requires that government must necessarily carve meaningful participation spheres for
itself as it provides supportive legislative framework and integrated
structures to widen scope of private investment.
Government’s efforts in this area will not necessarily be
competitive, even though a healthy dose of competition sharpens economic edge,
it ought to be complementary of non public sector investments.
Government investments must be sound and have tenacity for future benefits, we govern not for
ourselves but to ensure a heritage for our children and our future.
Shoddy projects, poor investments and meaningless dispensation of
our collective wealth do not add to this awareness. When government invests in
infrastructural development, these projects must necessarily be as good as it
can get for, for projects of this nature must have long term durability and
appeal to ensure that it continues to contribute to society far into foreseeable
future.
How a nation devises and successful executes its economic policies is more often than
not a realisation of our creative strength to adapt to fit our needs from a
global store house of possibilities as well as local ingenuity to generate long
term economic activity out of our obvious and hidden needs, formalising these
activities and structuring them into existing frameworks to become added
boosters of economic growth.
There are no hard
and fast rules, whatever can have long term demand whether existing or created in
presence of product or service is a means for long term employment. If these
ideas can be seen as gems nurtured and formalised as regular means of
employment, then we have created a job area that can very well become an
industry finding manifold expression across our nation and over its borders.
When a nation excels in something of economic, industrial or
technological breakthrough, its effort does not necessarily stop at its borders,
there is a whole world out there to be served and provided for and with
potential benefit at a handsome profit which is investors reward in extending
service and product to consumers, a ready external market is always welcome
boost to entrepreneurial initiative.
There are per se no low
income jobs and no low income areas; we have to aspire to create sustainable
income employment sources that over time must expand to be profitable enough to
ensure that employees enjoy high income which is an indication of corporate and
organisational success.
Quality of
life is dependent on how much a monthly income can purchase a nation that
produces a significant percentage of all its needs from local resources in local
industries can ensure at a fairly high degree of control and predictability as
to how its economic machinery operates to determine individual quality of life.
Which condition gives impetus to an internally driven socio-economic machinery
of efficient productivity to cater for basic needs of a nation and its populace.
Imports are supplementary additions to this internal productivity and it is a
necessity for national identity.
That is what it should be and must be. There is no labour that is dishonourable when it
is to add value to humans and improve their welfare. Let that understanding
permeate system whole! We complement one another as we contribute as a
collective to ensuring a functional society, each persons contribution is equally
important as the next and we owe it one to another to remember that we our
sisters and brothers keepers, just as they are same to
us.
There is world out there inviting possibilities to widen and
strengthen our economy, depending on what perspective we assume of that external
world we can embrace it as world of humans willing to help us sustain our
society and engage international
participation to strengthen local economy far beyond what is presently
available.
We have to proactively
seek and where necessary finance businesses to stabilise internal economies
in our territory. No one is going to make it happen if we don’t push for it we
have to force and grasp and tease out potential values wherever such
possibilities exist.
What we lack we can ask for
help to provide, in real terms we can create jobs through local
manufacturing and assembly rather importing complete products. For global brands
who establish assembly and manufacturing plants, their profits still are earned,
for us it is a way of ensuring that hundreds of thousand of families have
employed parents engaged in worthwhile employment.
Employment creation requires
a multi frontal strategy evolution
and no one approach should be under emphasised. We can only create those jobs we
creatively enable or we can continue to assume that we are an agrarian nation
where less than 20% of employed national capacity is meaningfully contributing
to sustainable agriculture. Beyond tilling the soil are a myriad of supportive,
industrial activities that altogether adds value to existing quality of life and
broadens spectrum of activities in our economic end game. We intend to do that
but it also requires engagement of each and every one of us, no one can sit
idle, waiting for a phantom government to make it possible, the government is
the nation and everyone must be engaged in ensuring that those who are set at
points of leadership do not accept and foist failure on the
masses.
Governments ought not
invest to sustain deplorable and non viable states, so property for a few
years can be subsidised to ensure that training and educational programs can
integrate effectively those being reinstituted to be capable of bearable full
cost of worthy investments to improve quality of life style, that means that
there is driving effort to provide short term intermediary provisions to ensure
that citizenry dependent of subventions to stabilise themselves in the long
term, remain at an altogether low level of perennially dependence on government.
Government must prepare all without exception to improve on their skills and
education to be fully capable of becoming valuable assets of national economic
productivity; that is government’s responsibility, the fulfilment upon which
long term progress is grounded.
The fully incapacitated
will and must be taken care off by government programs that provide trained
personnel to assume responsibility for those who cannot take of themselves.
These are to be considered rehabilitation centres in various guises. Every able
bodied person in a nation must be positioned to deliver full service to sustain
a nation’s growth unencumbered. It is along these lines that persons ought to be positioned into
areas where they have a desire to contribute and when in those positions must be
within organisational structures that enable meaningful productivity to sustain
adequate remunerations.
There are no perfect time tried approaches, each approach at
managing a society, is a process of adaptive response and proactive
intermediation to react to changes and varying needs of time and situation.
Likewise one expects that ideas must evolve to respond to changing times and
their demands. Flexibility and ability to make changes that enable
sustainability rather than an inflexible believe in a inviolable way, is
preferred and must be pursued.
In efficient economies
they are never enough human resources to go round, a nation fully conscious of
its priorities will hardly have excess capacity in terms of human labour and
given its value worth will ensure that each life is productively oriented to add
value to socio-economic productivity. How? Is what governments have to configure
and make realisable from cradle to grave for every soul under a responsible
government.
A government has to appreciate potential value imbued in
its human populace and must work to turn
that potential to real values powering social stability and economic growth.
How this is done is simply time tested and well tried, education and training
and a stabilisation of family, families remain a cornerstone of social
stability.
We must develop communities, involving our churches that integrate
worthwhile family values into
supportive community structures, to ensure that both young and matured persons
can be educated and trained in stabilised environments to discover their true
values and become contributors to national development. Where past efforts has
been successful in this regard its benefits and impact is obvious to all and
sundry.
We who are herein gathered and can listen and interpret this
message are direct indicators of what proper harnessing of human capacities and
its development relates to national development and growth. We intend to expand
and capture every person, as a national resource of inestimable value to be
properly cultivated and made productive and will work intensely to ensure that
developed human resources have adequate avenues to be productively engaged in
meaningful employment, adding value to national growth and prosperity.
Developing nations have far too many demands in terms of activity
spheres to be engaged in to attain equilibrium in national development to have
human resources to spare. Nations that have not attained to this level of
awareness are functionally incapacitated to appreciate their full value worth.
Every administration elected has taken office in a continuum of elected
representatives, and are adding to what has previously been attained by past
governments and we intend to leave definite frameworks for continuation for
those following after us. It is to be understood that governments elected are a
continuum that come to add, improve and where necessary bring to cessation
destructive practices of their predecessors and continue whatever is of
collective benefit that previous governments have begun and achieved.
An electoral process
offers choice of whose agenda is best seen as meeting primary needs aspired to
by a nation at any time and place, it is not a break off of ideas that lack
effective integration and must under intelligent considerations be amiably
negotiated rather than be society dividing politicisation, this understanding
must seep and permeate body politic such that a nation is continually progressing rather
than negatively split along party and ideological differences. Lets us
accept that like a football game our club preferences does not make eternal
enemies just spicing friendly competitiveness. Are we agreed on
that?
Transportation is central to
economic development and public transportation remains an area awaiting
significant development. Existing urban public transport remains in domain of
mainly poor standard mini busses. There is
a need to pool resources of
all those operating these mini vans to develop a reliable bus system employing
larger sized busses, with improved comfort levels and more importantly safety
provisions. In addition to ensuring that significant and regular employment is
generated through public transport, it ensures a regularity of timely and
assured service that is presently lacking.
Urban inter city
trains service and mid distance inter city trains are a necessity, being
environmentally more friendly, driven by electricity and capable of carrying
larger numbers that existing forms of transportation and must begin operations
in shortest possible time.
Massive redevelopment of central business districts in larger towns
and cities must come under consideration. Our cities reflect our view of life and
our capabilities as intelligent beings appreciating beauty in architecture.
We must renew and replant by redeveloping our crumbling and aged city centres to
complement effusive individual projects as well as re-assure our national pride
of what we believe in ourselves.
Our cities express that pride and must be given full capability to
bring forth, expressively, our talents
in arts and architecture, design and planning to redefine our cities, giving
expression to an ideal worthy of architectural renditions. A nation must be open
to worthy ideas for private sector development projects and government initiated
efforts to enliven our core socio-economic
activities.
We need to conceptualise and believe a bright hopeful future, learning from
our past mistakes and believing in your ability to pool our individual gifts,
capabilities and drives to achieve dreams at individual and national level. No
effort is too little, no aspiration too small, rather let your aspirations be grand and let
your efforts be guided by wisdom.
We seek not to micro manage our little wealth but to build a
propensity for generating possibilities that change for all times our dynamic
orientation, we seek to bound and leap
and catch up with front runners rather be also runs.
Words, that light
fire in our spirit and rouse our slumbering souls to strive to achieve beyond
existing possibilities. Just as
individual believe in a possibility of better quality of existence, nations
ought seek to realise greater dreams, worthwhile dreams of great achievements in
our lifetimes.
Those same idelas and believe in a worthy existence elsewhere that
push young men to cross deserts, and swim oceans to seek those ideals must
likewise be a burning fire in the hearts of our collective belief system in
turning our pieces of planetary Eden into an earthly paradise. Places where
determined minds have pushed barriers of impossibilities and given rise to
achievements that we dream of.
Now, is when our dreams must begin to gain life quality and
transform our reality. Do you agree with me?
We have to be creative in
job creation, in developing means of employment, we have to give added value
to what we take from nature and we have to ensure recycling is a closed circuit
fulfilled so that we preserve cleanliness in our environment.
We have to, as much as possible, manufacture and assemble or basic
needs, what we can we must and continue to work towards full capability in
acquiring machinery and technical expertise and make up for short term gaps in
meeting total domestic consumption through import, import is not a substitute
for local productivity it is merely
complementary.
For any defining industrial and technological break through, there
are situation specific and local additives that are capable of adding long term implement-able values
that our economy must take advantage of.
In software and computers we know how open source applications have made
possible through individual and group ingenuity additions that have expanded
scope of specific user applications, this very well applies across every area of
technology and industrial development it is an element of adaptation to use and
needs that extends immeasurably any breakthrough anywhere on earth in human
intellectual breakthrough.
We have to increase our adaptive use of what is accessible to
improve our quality of existence. First we have to articulate ideas meaningfully, turn
those worthy ideas into projects and in implementing projects change
significantly how we live and how we expect to
live.
A good government is one that does not make any assumptions but is
open constantly verifying unexplored options, giving each idea full
consideration, bringing in interested external parties to assist domestic
effort, afterall, there are many great minds out there who assume a planetary
perspective and a specie awareness. Assumptions are of little value if they keep
systems at lower than possible levels of performance capabilities. Good
assumptions are those that open possibilities enabling harnessing of palpably
inexhaustible energy forms to transform into beneficial end products for
community benefit.
An effective
government is one that communicates meaningful to those it governs.
Governments should not make assumptions about how information is communicated to
those governed. Information must infiltrate and saturate a system through
effective delivery media. Ensuring that communication is delivered through a
medium that ensures 100% infiltration becomes a task of system management.
In former times a radio diffusion box ensures that every one will
hear hourly news sometime during each twenty four cycle. Could 100% access to
internet access ensures that these technological tools serve multiple purposes
of education, information and entertainment. If yes, then how each person is
enabled accessibility becomes a task to be met by capable
governments?
In these era of ease
information accessibility would a ministry or government department for
information and communication not operating an easily accessible blog site for
mobile and internet accessible questions and answers not yield a better and
quicker awareness format for a government to provide accurate information to an
inquiring public?
Now, let’s make it work and make it a dependable source of government keeping pulse of its
governed and public, ensuring prompt answers to their questions, and
resolving worries, from information
generated and provided from totally reliable sources; offices of
government.
Reformulating local
industries into associations and equipping them to perform at higher levels of
productivity cannot be overemphasized. What is the exact difference between a
local carpentry workshop multiplied a thousand times and a refined furniture
purveyor such as IKEA is mainly organisational skills. It is this organisational
skills and the lack thereof that accounts for a substantial part of under
development. Cross nations, planetary wide, many needs and their fulfilments are
simple, within capability of realisation of every organised group of humans and
when properly ordered and implemented add a defining value to communities. For
developing nations getting a grasp of wholesome widespread organised
implementation more than anything else
is a challenge most leaders find difficult to grapple and bring under
control.
Government has to
be a facilitator that allows aggregation of good ideas for effective
implementation. A good government always benefits and even low taxes from
functional businesses are better than idle youth wasting away for lack of
coordination for effective integration into economic machinery for system
development and sustenance.
Government does not necessarily have to repossess local farmlands
to implement successful agricultural projects, by providing seeds, tools for
tilling and organising local associations planting similar crops over locally
owned lands a huge plantation is made possible with little distortion of existing
stability.
Likewise to improve a
decrepit transport system does not mean denying employment to those who run
local decrepit mini busses rather; these drivers are retrained and made stock
owners in newly developed transport services. Such agility in re-conceptualising to fit local
needs where improvements are made to add value and embrace local populace
and their efforts pay off better than an attempt to run over small persons by
aggressive, bullying and over enthusiastic government plans. Governments exist
to promote interest of local populace not to antagonise
them.
Our educational
institutions must be proactive in pushing barriers and boundaries and
defining newer fields of possibility. Expanding beyond what exists in each
generation; there are no limitations to what spheres of intellectual engagement
a sustainable educational system can evolve to keep abreast with changing times,
needs, awareness and developments.
As aspiring leaders we seek not only to lay forth an agenda for
implementation, we seek to bring improvements in physical structure, create
policies that can activate socio-economic growth but se also seek to preach, to
inspire, to motivate an inner drive of each and every one of you, you are
individually what constitute and define a nation, we want to tap into your inner
channels of every, awaken excitement for these times in which you leave, that
you may mould it and make of it interesting times and no one contribution is
less worthy than another, each and every one working together, believing in a
common purpose that you can make it better than you found it is what it
takes.
Government planning taking a cue from our recent past of short
lived success and long mediocrity leading to failed projects and government
capitalised investments, require that plans must detail how projects can be made responsive to
change by anticipating likely change scenarios and adaptive pressures to
which such projects must respond agilely or in absence of effective responses
fail.
How failure and
challenges can be dealt with and overcome must be an essential element of project
planning. Projects implemented have an estimated life time, when projects
mature should they be allowed to expire and how are they dismantled in that case
without living visible scars on our landscape. Alternatively, if certain
projects are to be sustained beyond expected norm of viability, how and by what
means.
Physical
infrastructure must be renewed to remain
functionally optimal. Therefore to whom responsibility is assigned and by what
resources regularly replenished these maintenance process that renews is
attained must be carefully elaborated and publicly
acknowledged.
Maintenance enables long term sustenance more importantly it keeps
many employed in ensuring long term viability.
Not only must projects need to run for a life time, some need to be
curtailed to make way for further developments elsewhere, keeping a balance between what to keep and
what to bring down to necessarily give way for more beneficial
implementation is an active requirement of effective community management. These
are critical areas to be elaborated in government investments in whose absence
resources are often wasted.
Government holds in
trust what is common to all and attempts to
add value that contributes to each and all under its governing responsibility.
Creating value at times and for developing nations oft times building industries
and industries areas that are nurtured and can be sold for profit to independent
sector interests. There is no conflict between these to activities, what is
critical is what yields utmost benefit to those being governed. To pass on
matured industrial investments to private sector is an indication of astute
investment and that ought to be primary and principle of privatisation of
government investment.
Multilingual
education from primary level through to tertiary level is a benefit to highest
quality labour development of a nation and its subjects. Africa’s colonial
heritage endows it with English, French, Spanish and Portuguese as easily
integrated languages for acquisition in our school systems, to let this
opportunity slip by under mines a potential value, which necessarily must be
used. When a nation is properly governed its citizens may travel abroad but
their heart is in their nation of birth and no matter how it is economically
analysed they are benefits to their nations of origin as well as being resources
to our world. Which side labour favours in terms of spending its productive
years is an indication of opportunities that exist to employ available labour
and at what beneficial cost.
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Man’s intelligence defines his capability to redefine his reality
using mental tools of creative engagement with its environment.
Nations’ resources are energy streams that must be harnessed
and channelled through appropriate performance enabling mediums to yield optimum
value to national development.
A nation on cusp of defining its development and not quite getting
a grasp, caught in a fluid of powerful stream of dynamism must define its
intentions as a social philosophy of expectations set within an interpretable
framework of expectations within which purpose and intentions can be
assigned.
This ensures that
from minor to major there is a framework that enables understanding of source of
inspired creativity and medium for fulfilment.
What defines an ideal school, what should it necessarily constitute
of and by what standards of deviation from norm ought to be accepted and
tolerated. Does this exist in our collective mental idealisms as a taken for
granted or it is situationally evolved and weighed against verifiable values and
acknowledged as worthwhile?
In building nations and managing them through difficult eras of
transition, leaders are oft faced with defining a sense of value of what is
appropriate and verifying against an existing set of verifiable truths; a
credible source of acknowledged good leadership practices and its
results.
Quote – John Pawson’s scheme had a number of powerful contexts to
negotiate, ranging from the existing structures on the site to historically
based ideas of what a Cistercian monastery should look like. Key early questions
centred on issues of where to break new ground and where to work within existing
frameworks. The first task was to identify the functional and aesthetic values
which define the core of Cistercian monastic life and then to generate the best
possible expression of these core qualities, given the time, the place and the
available means – the turn of the millennium, an abandoned farm with baroque
components in rural Bohemia and the monks’ restricted
budget.
The remarkable consistency of the Cistercian Order’s building
programme is the result of a comprehensive blueprint drawn up in the twelfth
century by St Bernard of Clairvaux. This blueprint not only laid out the various
territories of the monastery, but was also specific its aesthetic requirements,
placing emphasis on the quality of light and proportion, on simple, pared down
elevations, restrained detailing and spatial clarity. Pawson’s aim has been to
remain true to the spirit of St Bernard’s programme, expressing the Cistercian
spirit with absolute precision, in a language free from pastiche, while
introducing some new and distinctive vocabulary - the cantilevered cloister, for
example, which has no precedent in Cistercian architectural
history.
The many challenges of the Novy Dvur project reflect the truth that
authentically simple environments are almost inevitably the outcome of complex
architectural processes. Pawson’s scheme retains and restores the baroque manor
house and creates three wings of entirely new architecture on the footprint of
the old. The material palette is characteristically restrained, with plaster,
concrete, timber and glass predominating. A quiet rigour is manifest at every
junction, in the exactness with which glass meets stone, curve encounters plane
and views are framed. In keeping with Cistercian aesthetic preoccupations,
effects of light read as essential components of the fabric of the architecture,
being used variously to add precision, drama and a sense of mystery to the
experience of the spaces.
Nation’s need a powerful, defining leader not from a perspective of
a tyrant or ruthless leader but a
focused idealist who can exercise a constructive directive force of mutual
engagement that gives a meaningful desire for ever increasing creativity to
add value of long term value to a nation’s resources.
Our concept of life in strongly mediated by where we are born and
how we live our early years and consequently adjustments are made as man becomes
open to other possibilities. However, as specie there is a common understanding
that intelligent life is a rarity and must be treasured and nurtured for its
uniqueness.
It is also understood that intelligence bestows on humanity an
ability to configure their environment
to yield optimum value. If there were to be a logical link between former
and later statement it is only to be accepted that humans ought to be living at
best possible level of physical existence enabled in each era. Since humans are
organised as societies depending on group coordination for defining social
systems, it is often that a failure at some level of social chain
interdependency may impact severely others in social interactive
interdependency.
A leader’s call under this conceptualisation requires a mindset
that appreciates a process of continual
improvement along multiple fronts while acting as a referee to ensure proper
conduct while modulating a balanced social supportive interdependency that
minimises frictions at points of interaction.
There are many and tried and true approaches yet there also remains
many untried approaches that allows a society to progress towards a totally
encompassing goal of desired quality of life. What this desired quality of life is, is
itself an idealism that must be defined and shared as worthwhile by all in
society from youngest to oldest, since each category must be configured into
social growth strategy of a community, a society and a
nation.
At any phase of social evolution, what creates scarcity is not
adequacy of what God has imbued his creation rather leader’s incapacity to
realise options beyond parochialism of what a situational distress deems
possible, If it were not so, what has been perceived as a sure sign of end times
would not become a reflective ridicule of a future generation.
Believing that our socio-economic mechanism of social regulations
can be adapted to match changing needs within a framework of reasonable
possibility that will not in implementation radically change rules of social
stability and create adverse circumstances of turbidity and instability leading
to short term chaos, an essential awareness that progress can be negotiated
without creating adverse social circumstances.
A nation is a
palpable energy of possibilities pulsating, with,
energy seeking a means of giving expression to its capabilities, capabilities
that lie in talents to be unearthed, cultivated and turned into priceless
treasures of human intelligence acting upon resources set in man’s planetary
heritage to be discovered and make valuable material means and ends an acquired
possibility. Leaders are those who structure society to tap into these energy
sources and use their transformational values to bring desired ends to their
nations.
A healthy nation is one
that has created more opportunities for human engagement at all levels than
there are humans and thus is open to absorb human resources from external
locations to share in its resources and make this attracted human resources
inputs to further add value to a socio-economic machinery performing at peak
capacity.
Nations that are incapacitated by poor leaders who are not enable
to harness and channel their potential energy into definitive channels for
system benefit are lacking at many fronts not from a lack of resources, for
resources are mind state finding expression in defined settings responding to
unique situations and properly managed operate to maximise need fulfilments of
their area of expressive rendition.
It simply means that beauty is evocative of its unique environment
and can be made to have appeal across a broader front that its source of
emergence. Material and physical development occur along a socio-economic
perspective that reflects this artistic quality in that it must be made
responsive to unique settings employing global resources where accessible and in
our times, this accessibility is ever increasing.
Nations that cannot
appeal and adopt, adapting for use, resources at this
level of expanding accessibility are very much akin to those virgins who failed
to fill their lanterns with fuel and carry extra in storage as told in the
scriptures and missed a biblical wedding
feast.
Failing
nations are those who have not built continuity in their core system
structure through predictability and suffer severe ruptures at every turn of
leadership. Democracies for predictable change of leadership ensure that
disruptions that distort progress at a fundamental level are under control and
focus can be on steady approximation of set goals and idea realisations. This is
central to success, it must be resolved and then ideas can be evolved for
continuance in development.
What are desired ends of national development? It may vary for
various expectations, however orderly existence that ensures a nation’s physical
and non physical resource have adequate room for optimum interaction with its
developed intellectual capacities to add optimum value various levels of
physical, material and mental existence ensures that majority of people do not
experience under utilisation in their generation of what nation and persons are
capable of given optimum coordination through effective
leadership.
Disparities between
ideas and socio-economic management processes can undermine true
values of leadership processes as regards coordination of a nation’s expectation
with maximising resource use to approximate a desired state of nation’s
operational efficiency.
This requires a need to categorise a tripartite separation of social
management at highest level that a nation is employing its resources,
through a process of development,
discovery and application to eliminate areas of undesirability as presently
pertaining, at a second level are politico-socio-economic modulator
tools, processes and approaches established in predictable legislation to
safeguard and ensure predictability. Finally, is individual level where choice exists,
that each person has expansive room of choice, of where to integrate into
collective medium for mutual benefit, here effective development at tiers one
and two ensure that no one person can and ought fall outside their
responsibility to ensuring system sustenance and improvement. At tier three are
ample opportunities where choices are made as to how to contribute to systemic
whole by individuals using resources made available and to be supplemented by
their productive engagement in that evolved
system.
Some nation’s respond to change faster than others not because they
are richer but mainly because they are more organised and are constantly
scanning developments globally to enable them infuse change that allows system
efficiency through lower cost overall to their socio-economic systems. Operating
at older less efficient levels of resource applications weigh down overall
system development. Effective scanning of a global medium ensures that
efficiencies are integrated early enough to buoy over laden inefficiencies.
Adaptive
nations are capable of defining what technology and other social
developments can benefit their system nationwide and have created by default
economic systems freed from undue restrictions to allow discerning public to
evaluate innovative infusions. Allowing private infusion of newer inputs with
wider appeal acknowledged to a purchasing unrestricted consuming public.
Those with poorer organisational capabilities struggle to hold onto
outdated modes of technology and system processes, considered from a broad
consideration such nation’s fail to add value and endure burden of excess cost
of shoring up tottering and failing values that undermine efficiency
overall.
When there are reference to faces of poverty what is often being
referred to are faces of human failure,
a failure of leadership at national levels, inability to effectively
aggregate core value to integrate human progress global wide into an effective
supporting mechanism of inter community dependency.
International and regional governmental coordination bodies such as
United Nations, African Union, NAFTA, European Union are working to ensure
success in these areas, however, capability at national resource management
contributes significantly to higher level coordination while these unions also
become a support base for enabling national development through facilitating
shared resources by union members.
For example, rational considerations will require that productive
labour that has immigration paper work uncompleted would be registered and made
an acknowledged element of economically successfully nations bordering poorer
nations, to ensure that economically viability is not undermined by immigration
department’s failure to manage borders. It also ensures that economically
capable nations can keep accurate records of employed labour within their
borders without threatening deportation for so long as such are economically,
productively engaged. This will allow immigrant labour to be accessible to
health and social provisions and accounted for and not an under class of shadowy
non citizens supporting economies of countries they are illegally residing in.
Simple solutions to natural dispositions require agility in leadership solution
construct.
Earth is a shared responsibilities of all its intelligence to be
managed to yield optimum benefit to its inhabitants, from isolated pockets this
sense of shared responsibility has spread with increase in communication and
interdependency, while there is no ambiguity that earth as a planet is most likely to outlive
its biological mass including, given
that it is an self renewing mass, humans. This awareness, ought to create a
certain sense of sober humanness as to how the specie of humans threat one
another. It is an awareness that can only optimise their earthly heritage in any
era by coordinating to improve resource use at a more sophisticated level of
operation than presently possible.
Nation’s value of chains of perceived future growth to enable
participation in various aspects of their national economic development by
external third party interests, whose interest is to benefit from a purely
economic perspective requires a domestic effort to integrate stable tenure to
any area of national development to which interest is being
cultivated.
That implies integrated
values in system development that assures a future viability for increasing
acquisition of developmental resource input from any socio-technological
investment to bolster economic sustainability.
Government structuring and establishing foundations of developments
infuse a discipline that enables utmost unrestricted creativity from individuals
and idea sources in a society. Structures, enable a medium of construct
for utmost development of latent possibilities and a society is performing
at its highest when talent that is imbued is enable a format inherent in
predictable structures for unhindered expression.
This is in overall direction of expression of human progress.
Positive developments are embraced by a population of open minded, conscious
individuals, making unrestricted choices that hopefully is able to identify and
support what is mutually beneficial and categorically requiring other ideas to
make a more meaningful expression of how these ideas promote specie growth and
progress.
Lessons on mass
social failures in human progress
are key indicators of what certain human actions or inactions thereof can lead
to and become guides as to how to effectively manage nations and their
resources.
Managing a nation’s
resources is nothing more than defining mediums for effective utilisation
through resource realisation of what can be resourced to sustain and expand
social system viability from a perceived and desired perspective, with a clear
understanding that systems are capable of expressing themselves at many levels
in situ and dynamically exponentially.
Within any era and epoch set in meaningful time perspective, there
are certain desired outcomes that must be defined, articulated as physical
states of realisation and human and material resources instigated
combinatorially to productively realise and make possible with eventual overall
systemic gain.
Navigating
complexities, blocks (mainly through lack of understanding of how to employ these
provisions to ones benefit at national and regional levels), frustration of ease
of integration into regional and international economic rules of socio-economic
games that seem to slow development, there is one outstanding fact, which is,
every grouping of humans under effective leadership can tap into accessible
universal knowledge base to structure ideas and coordinate implementation using
preponderantly local and easily available resources to significantly increase
quality of physical existence of its human populace.
Improving quality of physical existence of a populace implies a
direct individual improvement of life quality through overall accessibility to
universally enabled provisions that in turn become catalyst of empowering
individual initiative to add value at a more personalised level working in an
integrated economic.
If economies thrive on profit then it logically follows that given
long term projections anything that has a potential for feeding profit over a
projected long term span stands to benefit system whole, given efficiency of
overall system management.
Being able to create an interest at a point of initiation to
interest primary investment in an nation becomes what effective leaders have to
evolve as a management tool to
continue to draw in external third party investments to bolster their economic
growth and expand breadth of economically viable opportunities at individual
level.
Governments have a
responsibility to generate occupational activities of paid employment
to create social stability, in this case work creation requires a circle of
inner generated cyclic activity of production and consumption (use) that is
tenable enough to ensure long term propensity for this social biased economic
investments by a government. Where resource input is mainly locally originating
as well then self sufficiency implies that long term sustainability is within
adopted management strategies.
Creating cycles of
economic self sufficiency absorbing
resources from and feeding benefits into other cycles of integrated
interdependency or sub sets of multiple activities converging on a national
economic system that increasingly enables self sufficiency within a defined
territorial integrity of unhindered access increases stability within that
defined region, which nominally begins with a nation and can evolve into
economic regions of shared interest and shared resources and hopefully a global
integration.
Nations are human
artefacts a deliberate sharing of defined portions of a unitary planet for
social management convenience. What is more important to any individual human
life? A meaningful life lived in a city state or a burden of affliction in super
continental size nation who benefits its leaders and imposes severest
restriction on its citizenry?
As far as human socio-economic and geo-political configurations are
concerned and for that matter any socially organised effort to enhance social
stability, these are serious games of management within limited albeit expanding
scope of human understanding; how to share common resources and minimise strife
capable of creating unimaginable destruction that consequently can undermine
specie self sustenance.
Understanding mutual interdependency is a precondition to establish
all efforts to integrate existing knowledge to improve human life quality, an
effort that becomes easier to negotiate when overall socio-economic terrain is
modulated and managed and socially engineered to be more even than valleys and
depths of despair and unattainable mountain heights of rarity.
When all superficial superfluities of arguments that extol patches
of stratified human groupings are exhausted what surfaces is a simple
understanding that each man is his brother’s keeper and all must co-operate to
enhance specie survival from a limited perspective.
Nature changes of a planetary proportion can be anticipated and
protective measures set in place but when it is all said and done it is only a
limited area of planetary capability that humans have full control over and
there is much room for improvement from a coordinated global leadership
dispensation.
Leaders are persons placed in positions of responsibility and are
rewarded adequately or where incapable impose severe cost on those over whom
they exercise leadership through their inadequacies of marshalling collective
energy to yield whole system benefit.
A leader is an individual with idiosyncrasies that do not
necessarily typify an entire nation or gathering of humans differently gifted
yet how often do innocents have to pay underserved price of failed leadership
and better still how many benefit when truly enlightened leaders realise dreams
of improved quality of life for their
populace.
Since humans necessarily must have a leader, since leadership role
players coordinating human affairs for a specified period and like any task
performers temporary occupants of highest seats of responsibility there must be
a means of ensuring that leadership excesses have limited effects on citizenry
when negatives outcomes dominate. Leaders who lead effectively not only improve
a period but leave imprints of possibilities that can be adapted for other
situations and periods.
A leader exerts, unobviated, a personal characteristics on how he
or she manages a leadership role responsibility, what is critical and hopefully
implemental is that these excesses when they are of a purely negative and
non-beneficial nature to human interests are curtailed and held in check or
where it is possible to ensure that persons that cannot yield benefit to
community and society are not capable of weaselling their way into leadership
role responsibilities. Since such persons only serve an interest that has
nothing to do with improving collective benefit. Yet, there is a misconception of service to man, narrowly
defined that often puts these destructive types in positions where they are
least suited to occupy.
A leadership role
responsibility does not impose any special powers or exceptions to role occupants
than what ought to apply to all, exceptions that ensure that leaders perform
their roles unhindered may be considered, yet not those that allow abuse of
power and shirking of primary responsibility of role concerned. From a purely
political perspective all power is framed within constitutional framework of
rights and obligations and devolves automatically to those being governed. Where
such constitutionality is absent or truncated, then leadership is immature and
still evolving; a progressive process in development to ensure a collective
obligated conferring of leadership.
While from a certain point of view, trade and our monetary economy
are inconceivable of greater value than human life, from a more realistic
perspective there is a sombre agreement that what we conceive as a sophisticated
economy of currencies and eco-politico superiorities and inferiorities are
nothing more than carefully coordinated
games of resource sharing and resource management which is presently of such
unsophisticated nature that priceless lives; rare intelligent lives have
been sacrificed to allow some deluded sense of profitability to be acquired and
considered primary to any individual, human interest.
For now, that might seem reasonable for those interests that
manipulate social systems from a myopic perspective and perpetuate unnecessary
human suffering that they may surfeit in greedy material over consumption. Such
interest might not know any better and operate at a lower level of comprehension
with regards to un-accessed possibilities in socio-economic possibilities.
However, as human specie acquire more understanding and evolve to develop more
sophisticated resource management strategies there is bound to be improved
states of resource management that will permit global economic game to continue
without perpetuating unnecessary suffering upon
humans.
Change is
consequent on action choices arising out of
idea choices, what is seen as positive developments in human affairs at larger
society levels are mainly due to choices made in awake of alternatives that may
have lesser pleasant consequences.
Whether regions aggregate, see beyond differences and co-operate to
generate stability and enhance their
collective survival chances are choices made especially from presciently
points of advantage or comparative to project are wider scope of possibilities
within a framework of co-operation rather than isolation. Likewise, unless
leaders make choices to make changes in how present economic game is managed
humanity as always is at receiving end be it for good or negative
ends.
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In considering what African leaders need to accomplish to create a centre of development stability,
there is not much by way of hidden strategies for effective government other
than realising that a human life is
priceless and must be held in highest esteem in terms of how it enabled a
decent existence quality.
Idea champions extolling a certain life quality expectation as a minimum
cutting across national populace is a starting point, it enables a platform of
what modernity implies nation wide and how to expect degrees of approximation to
this.
High emphasis should be given to contained community developments, with
communities enabled to decidedly operate, manage and govern limited areas with a
high scope of improving quality within managed territories. This allows a more
hands on approach and without doubt a more concerted effort to manage
communities within definitions of expectations articulated from national
leadership.
What this means is that idea projection from upper government
levels must be defined in terms of urging communities to push and extend
modernisation drive in enabling and sustaining significantly improved quality of
life.
Resources must be identified within communities as well as coming
as supplementary support assistance from national coffers. Communities that
excel within a district and a region through effective identification and
development of resources will stand to be prosperous while others less endowed
will seek more creative approaches to community management efficiency or
integrate and join more successful
communities.
Global resource
management as it has presently evolved through a yet unsophisticated monetary
system is a rough, unrefined, left over of European middle ages civilisation
playing catch up to a fast evolving domain of global interests; a group benefit
instrument of suppression that benefits those who are capable of finding
positions of favour under those who control means of production.
In which sense it has become a highly sophisticated tool of partial
benefit that under utilises human value and resources especially in those
regions of earth where it is poorly understood, inadequately implemented and
slows efforts to maximise progress. Until a worthwhile alternative evolves to
replace this greed foisted monetary control over access to planetary resources,
earth’s intelligence will continue to be an exploited source of overall low
operating intelligence.
This is not to say that
intelligence suffers as a whole from our present monetary system, it is to
imply that any evolved social management tool that undermines optimal value of
life and suppresses its unhindered potential development is an indication of
inadequacy that is sustained because of its temporary benefit to a ruling class
who are not in a hurry to effect proper corrective measures to bridge its
control ineffectiveness.
Noting what is an apparent flaw is not a call to arms to destabilise global
monetary systems, it is a reminder of a need to bridge its inadequacy to make it
a more effective socio-economic management tool. For developing countries it
requires an intensive effort to minimise hindrances that it imposes while
enabling them a wider room for evolving strategies to harness their internal
resources to improve overall internal state of life quality for their populace.
Inter-nation cooperation requires zones of integration and
interaction that ensure dependable resource exchange, where less dependence is
developed and more internal dependability structured into a nation it will
suffer less at this points of inter-nation interaction being less dependent on
pressures arises from unfavourable third party
interests.
What a nation defines as necessary to its self sustenance is
consequence of idea projection of what that gathering of humans in a defined
setting expect their creature state of physical and material existence to be.
Thus, open systems in terms of global cooperation does not necessarily mean one
way feeder system where less developed are fed by more developed, rather it is a
gradual process of enabling less developed to life themselves through
self-sustained effort to raise floors of their valleys of despair.
Our civilization is
an idea structure coagulating through time streams to define a desired state or
a failed state in absence of former, it is not
necessarily at all times a process of undesirable being replaced by desirable
though over extreme long terms that which undermines human worth will certainly
be eroded by popular consensus to reject such, yet stronger forces of enforced
obedience and manipulated states of tolerance for what is palpably replaceable
by existing evolved options for fear of causing turbulence until a majority has
eaten away at such impositions on collective to gain
ascendance.
What this implies for developing nations is defining an idea pool
that draws from a universal reference but fitted to unique needs with an effort
to constantly operate at maximum efficiency. A system that under utilises its
internal resources given that societies are fluid systems adapting, adopting and
changing through time is imposing costs of poor management on its populace. Who defines optimum is nothing short of a
collective aggregation of worthiness which is enabled full expression when
systems allow open idea generation, idea assessment and idea
integration.
There are legacy issues at stake here, development countries have
inherited or plugged themselves into an economic system that was from its
initiation configured outside their critical value needs and system stability
consideration, it has proven to be nothing short of a long enduring pain at
shoring up what is inevitably a
collapsing structure of inadequacies as they struggle to integrate
themselves into economic systems calibrated to exploit not enable evenness.
Is there a possibility of adopting beneficial inner evolved values
of emerging economic system and patching into a global system of fairly
stabilised beneficial resource management?
It is a worthy re-evaluation of existing and emerging thesis of
economic redefinition of value computation that in setting humanity as its
primary value to which every elemental, physical and material resource evolves
to nurture as prime basis for system development. Can this re-conceptualisation
of economic values evolve to become a stable economic structure for developing
nation and continental development integrating a balanced global system refined
and predictable, as far as African nations are concerned?
How can such an
inner emergent approach evolve and how can it find comfortable accommodation
with exploitative economies that are parochial, given high level
of dependence that has been nurtured at points of co-operation and interaction
between these emergent systems and more stable economic systems
elsewhere?
Internal systems
must be consistent with internal needs of nations with immense resources to
employ to improve their internal states, given an existing
external mode of what is possible, yet, how much of what is imported remains an
open question. It is however, simply, understood that what cannot add value but
strangulates must necessarily be replaced by more supportive system
structures.
If socio-economics systems are processes aggregating through time
to define eras and establish meaningful states then it follows that new sets of
ideas can adopt aspects of existing principles and combine those preferences
with grounded ideals to affect desired working of emerging social management
processes.
Nations or human societies tend to accumulate excellence around
sets of activities that may find their apogee independent of overall direction
of society through time. What passes for national economic management in most
development nations is a purse keeping
febricity of inconsequence that imparts insignificantly majority of
materially impoverished majority of their populace for whom national resources
must be employed to structure into sustainable development machinery of their
nations.
Are there worthy
alternatives? One answer seems adequate, one cannot know until intelligent minds sit
and consider implementation of more encompassing forms of economic engagement
and nation management.
While simplicity seems to overemphasise free education, what
remains more relevant is how free education can enable refined labour
development that in turn pays off cost of education through wealth creation as a
counter balance to invested cost in
turning out such educated minds, a policy must necessarily be a self supportive
set of cyclic activities, creating fields of subsets interaction to integrate a
comprehensive field of well grounded, stable economic structure upon which
further development is enabled.
Constant, continually upgraded, improvements in these concerted
fields eliminate redundancy and ensure optimum efficiency within particular eras
intellectual capabilities.
Democracies are by
nature idea pooling institutions where elected
representatives resource ideas from their electorates, refining that process and
identifying new ideas for implementations is what idealistic governments excel,
and their pool of resource-able idea is global and unrestricted.
One only needs to look around to appreciate that simple fact that intelligence and growth promoting
developments are not boundary restricted or culture delimited. In that same
sense must full awareness prevail that delay full implementation to resolve
social issues of material lack for marginalised in a community is an indication
of severe lapse in social resource management.
What makes a difference, from utmost benefit, to barely dipping
ones toe in strange waters, is what overall benefit is diffused through such
idea resourcing on a community’s marginalised.
To totally remove marginalised and focus on how structured human
resources in a nation ought to live, to a stage where all developing nations are
positioned for utilising whatever latent talents that are imbued in them is a
task awaiting a functional United Nations Organisation, improving its task
medium of expected responsibilities and discharge.
Like refining raw materials, humans must be refined through
education and training to enable them contribute their creative developmental
capabilities to their societies.
There is a constant
revision of perspective depending on what perspective a particular situation
is viewed, from a high rise building your sense of giddiness is a distant street
level scene, from a cruising aeroplane to becomes a continental perspective and
from a space shuttle it is a planetary perspective. In same sense, governments
can conceive of reality of what is expected and delivered from a perspective of
working in tandem with rest of human intelligence or working at a far less than
optimal level where social despair is tolerated and given expression as a
tolerated terminology that allows specie life to be wasted through planetary
management inefficiencies. One then wonders what kind of intelligent specie
allow such waste of rare untapped pool of intelligence with every life left
unrefined and uncultivated?
In resourcing ideas to adapt into a growing trend in whatever area
of human development there is no doubt that late starters have an advantage of
learning from mistakes of path blazers, which in itself doe not imply that there
is any encouragement for latency, thus in urban developments there are
increasing awareness of greener, environmentally sounder approaches than a
concretization of monolithic structures.
Social philosophizing of this nature is not per se a critic of any
set of leadership rather than an attempt to create awareness of choosing
alternatives that remove complacency in terms of leadership shortcomings,
shortcomings that occupy leaders is cycles of failure yielding little in terms
of direct benefits and enabling an opting for a goal focused effort, to drive of
national resource management, coordinating effort that is in tune with highest
possible conceptualisation of human excellence.
It is also a means of emphasizing how collective failure ought not to be
tolerated as an assumption of any assumed state of a stage in development. Awareness creates an opportunity from a
jump from a prior state of inefficiency to a more efficient level of operation
in any social management process.
While ideas are profuse,
and are of little practical value, unless coordinated into a structure for
implementation consideration. Refinement and implementation are two idea
enriching processes that once activated turn those latent mind projections
active projects for implementation consideration.
Consequently, ideas advance and then a setting of an agenda begins
to assume form that will bring universal change in reference to a defined
universe of a community or nation becomes a necessary third step where
implementation becomes a short, medium and long term occupational activity, be
it in terms of non physical service activities or physical infrastructural
construction activities. A fourth stage is maintaining and improving over tie
what has been accomplished and where necessary replacing with more era
complementary projects and implementations, inevitably follows in functionally
responsive social systems.
Urban development and for that matter national development is an integrated process of replacing non
viable system structures with growth enabled (intellectual, social and
technological) options that altogether improve prior quality of life along a
certain dimension, it is not a stand apart project that exists apart from
masses, likewise aspects of system whole must grow in tandem with growth
dynamics in that social system.
Thus, high rise office towers and illiterate populations are a
mismatched pair. World class motorways roads and poor transportation equipment
or lack thereof is dubious dispensation of system resource, growing populations
and lack of mass transports in urban centres is a frustrated urbanisation, and
on it goes with every lack of
implementation that undermines large population
aggregation.
Development that
matches needs with implementation and integrates local population with avant
garde implementations, which in turn
becomes functional improvements to ease life quality, has greatest chance of
adaptive growth potential. Finding that
intersection of matching existing and introduced requires multiple coordination
at both segments under consideration, population must be equipped
intellectually or through awareness and consequent modification to ease
themselves and make theirs new implementations and new implementations must be
adapted to ensure ease of use.
One can discern three major
cycles in direction of socio-economic and overall human development, in
exiting first phase there is a re-alignment of traditional systems to a more
productive and urbanised pre-industrial, industrial and modernised community
characteristics, initially, this is limited to a select group of minority, when
its benefits are clearly indicative, there is second phase of mass orientation
to adopt these values and integrate them, nationwide, into their personal and
communal lives, for overall system benefit there is a push by national
leadership to coerce a drive away from negative and redundant traditionalism
towards a more relevant pro-literate, missionary biased education to enable
acquisition of teachable skills to push whole system into a pre-industrial,
quasi modern community, failures at various phases of this stage has caused a
stragglers effect that has under mined overall benefit if this drive had been
successful. Finally, there is a modernised society emerging at final third stage
with vestigial remains of non-inhibitory traditional values enabling a unique
identity. This third and final phase is a complete phasing through to a new era
with completely new values and social perceptions and expectations. This phase
is still to be approximated by developing African nations. Presently system
inefficiencies in orienting collective into a predictable structure of national
resource management that ensures an easy transition means that phase one which
should have been over is still causing turbulence and uneven achievement overall
at phase two delaying phase three which is where these nation ought to be
now.
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Leaders who serve
in public office assume those
positions for singular task of service to those they represent. In that role,
their management task requires of them to identify values in their areas of
responsibility and using existing resources to develop latent, poorly utilised
and undiscovered resources, enrich them through a preparatory process and
position these coordinated resources to sustain and broaden existing scope of
their communities and nations.
Economies are
activity sets of integrated supportive cycles of production and
consumption, economies can only expand through consumer or participant expansion
where existing activities expand and new activity entrants broaden scope of
existing base. For agro based economies transiting into pre industrial modern
era, there is a significant widening of scope of economic activities from simple
cultivation employing basic tools and simple minimal processing of agro products
to a much wider set of activity schemes that require a more cultivated mind set
to enable resource management at this levels of widened
activities.
Progress hinges
more or less on continual expansion from a fundamental start
point of direct interaction with nature to layered, enhanced and
translateral feeder integration at this multi layered levels of interactive
interdependency of activity sets that require layers of interaction both at
industrial machinery level to human intermediaries to ensure fulfilment of a
wider variety of end products.
How nations are
able to increase activity schemes determines their
economic growth prospects and their ability to increase wealth generation to
sustain their economies at a level more sophisticated than a prior primary state
of assumption.
Now, an ethereal question ought to be posed, a questions which in
being answered provides fulcrum to shore socio-economic development strategy in
developing regions; that question is are
developing nations at a stage where modernity is a destabilising factor and they
as a whole will be better off progressing at a natural pace in a dominant
agrarian economic system?
Development and its
implementation is a response to driving pressure to substitute existing
structure with more system stabilizing frameworks to enable social
stability. Whatever finds infusion that creates new patterns of a sustainable
nature enough to create new needs and a persistent need to accommodate those
needs becomes a social factor that must considered in managing that systemic
whole.
Presently, developing nations are providing far less that their
system needs demand to ensure stability in their socio-economic environments.
There is a need for a drastic re-orientation to ensure an upgrade to a new level
of conceptualisation of essentialities needed to ensure an even keel for
developmental progress.
This gap between desires
and available provisions is causing a severe turbulence where disparity
between extremes are leading to undesired swings driven by excess loading at one
end and severe deficit at other end, with no equitable negotiated middle ground
of modulated provisions.
I will make no effort at arguing necessity of every child having a
$100 in
If it is available, if it is desirable and some will acquire it in
that society, thus creating a vacuum of unfulfilled needs, it becomes a source
of social contention.
How important are certain needs to everyone? Not everyone needs to
be attired in designer suits, nevertheless, even though humans can with a
certain degree of adjustment live naked or with leaves around their waists, all
humans do need decent and clean clothing, because it is desirable and given
appropriate circumstances, provided and thus, worthy of attaining, one way or
another.
Ease with which a community, society or nation makes these basic
needs acquisition possible, is a measure of comparable acquired development.
This is how far this argument will be taken. Understanding the arguments
precepts under lies, beginning to appreciate complex mechanisms of
socio-economic stability or lack thereof in any
nation.
Nation
management will have to bulk improvements at ends where there is a inadequacies
and ensure a more balanced centre, which centre is a level of overall system
evolution. It is at this level that an upward overall progress is enabled
pushing social systems as a whole desirably
upwards.
A nation is a
defined portion of a shared common planetary heritage over which each
leader has a mandate enabled by its human populace to ensure optimum resource
management to ensure an approximation or exceeding of a pre defined quality of
physical existence. Leaders who are capable of deciphering through attained
knowledge what existing unlimited potentials resources they can employ both
within and beyond their area of direct control stand to use this awareness as a
means of achieving certain heights of excellence for their people, albeit
temporal.
In seeking to create that
middle of stability in social growth, developing nations are positioned to
reflect on how earlier emergence of ideologies in seeking to polarise
development from ideological perspectives have differently realised similar
ends. What is critical in that lesson is nations fare better where governments
allow individual idealism and drive for excellence to thrive and governments
create platforms within national structures for allowing identification and
development of imbued talents.
Those lessons also importantly indicate that certain basic
provisions mainly housing needs, education, health and basic communication
infrastructure that ensure sanitised urban environments and orderly organisation
of society to ensure predictability in system resource management ensure success
in development.
That management processes that assume a leadership imposition of
appropriateness, deliberately imposing unhindered expression of desires and
needs from a governed and their elected representatives, imposing restrictions
to unhindered creativity from group members and groups in national systems often
undermine system efficiencies.
Labelling socio-economic processes, giving them a form of weighted,
preferred, verifiable identity within a questionable value system that is self
effacing, which social processes can be explained with a certain degree of
accuracy, pretentiously extolling those values, when they are unnaturally in
conflict with simple expressed interests of any populace is a
farce.
People every where on earth have simple and basic needs that when
provided for ensure a degree of social stability and sustained economic growth,
none of which provisions impose material lack within a limit of
normality.
However, there is clearly an indication that choosing from existing
knowledge has proven a task impossible for most developing nations who are
presently incapable of capturing those idea essences that enable them to
organise structures within their systems to allow them to maximise resource
identification, development and deployment.
What is apparent, are sudden flashes of brilliance, in a clinging,
drowning mud of inefficiency when governments loose their developmental
projected growth processes in progress and resort to questionable conduct of
limited overall system benefit.
Where enough intellectual power has not been garnered, to project
these systems to a level above and beyond simple traditional and agrarian
societies, faltering from projected development plans has severe consequences.
While there is nothing per se wrong with those evolved states of
society in development, there is a clear indication that their inadequacy has at
its core, production structures that have proven inadequate to sustain social
and economic balance in light of applicable
alternatives.
More than detailing a preferred action cause there is a need for a internal re-evaluation of
these developing nations to verify whether they are operating at optimum
capacity, given their existing capabilities and if they are not, what can be
done to maximise internal resources
under-employed.
These resources are of course mainly of a mental and intellectual nature,
resource to be engaged in improving existing states by identifying resources to
be deployed to alleviate existing gaps in system
provisions.
Since it is not a
lack of ideas or examples of actual implementations of what ought to be done
rather than actual realisation these nations have
to look from within and find out where failure is originating.
Thus there is a need for specificities where ideas become specified variables to be implemented
and followed through for their estimated period of viability at which time
alternative provisions will have evolved to replace and improve upon existing
implementations of previous era. These are what development plans and projects
seek to achieve, given that most developing nations have fairly detailed
developments plans that hopefully are being constantly revised, failure is
mainly consigned to project implementation and needs to resolved at that
level.
Internal inconsistencies in improving overall system through
leveraging needs at ends that are lacking is a failure that is contained at
level of commitment and a mind state deficiency of pursuing an idea to its
successful end.
What causes such dystopic gap between a start and a completion what
by all consideration is worthwhile is where these nation systems are
inadequately developed and it is at that level that rectification must be made.
Which awareness is what enables that essential perspicuity that
takes system failure from a material and leadership inadequacy to an intellectual conceived level of a
perception of society by its leaders from an angle hitherto not all
conceivable.
If a palpably self contained system has all resources for internal
improvement and yet remains stagnant in full utilisation of those resources and
even where external supplements needed to improve that system are available and
not fully resourced one begins to wonder whether such systems are internally
incapacitated by a process of development at a level which has more to do with
appreciation internal values than a lack of such
values?
Again, self deprecatory questions do not go beyond more than
creating lucidity for reconsideration. Given that improving and refining
resources at all levels continual create socio-economic expansion and creates a
vitality that sustains growth beyond a drudgery hold onto life because humans by
natural inclination seek to preserve life, there is a difficulty of fully
comprehending why unstable nations in transition with good leaders steering
affairs cannot instil dependable structures for system stabilisation that
enables optimal resource utilisation at attained levels of developmental growth
to enable an overall upward elevation of developmental
stage.
Conclusion
Vitality in nation development requires a willingness to be open to
access existing accessible intellectual and knowledge databases constantly being
updated as creative minds are pushed and driven to innovate and introduce newer
possibilities to handling old tasks.
It is a determined benefit to leadership to create avenues to
filter all possible worthwhile information available to employ to improve.
How this information is absorbed and employed underlies success in
national and continental development.
Trade is an exchange of goods and ideas from a general point of
view, prosperity in trade and wealth creation in a certain limited sense means
creating or having access through natural endowment to what others need and
cannot acquire except through exchange or being enabled access to by those who
have these resources. In a similar sense developmental vitality is pushing
beyond what is, to make possible, what can be and enriching quality of a
society’s life quality as an end measure.
How this is realised, is in terms, of what worthy ideas are
generated and concretised in implementation to add value to any
nation.