I wonder why we
speak like champion and act like looser. Champions not always have good tools
or kits but use the kits to prepare ahead of every competition. They always
prepare for the future.
Imagine a
graduate without computer skills not to talk of having one is clamouring for
employment using mobile phone worth $200. How long are we going to be deceiving
ourselves?
To quote Strive
Masiwiya, Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless in one of his articles on
his facebook page; he said
Question: What
are the "tools of your trade"?
Do you have
your own computer? Everyone who runs a modern business, or works in a
profession, should have a laptop.
A computer is
not even a "tool"; it's the "toolbox" in which most all the
modern technological tools are kept.
Are you on the
Internet? Do you have it in both your business and your home?
·
If not, you
better sell your car, if you have one, and walk, but you must have a computer
and be on the Internet.
·
If you have a
house, it would be far smarter in today's world to have a smaller house with
Internet, than a bigger house with no Internet.
·
It would be
far, far smarter to have a smaller car, or none at all, and be able to afford a
computer and Internet for your business and family, than to have a luxury car
or the like.
·
Those who
understand what I'm saying here are better positioned to make the career
changes needed as a result of disruptive changes to the workplace, and the jobs
we do.
Whatever work
you do, or plan to do in the future, you have to upgrade your
"toolbox" for the changing times ahead. I want you to be prepared.
Remember what I wrote last week about your mindset? And the week before that, about
imagining the horizon beyond today's horizon?
As I’ve written
you before, the “mobile revolution” has already given way to the “Internet
revolution.” If the Internet were an ocean, then what you’re seeing today is
just the shoreline. The Internet will even transform our villages. In the
future, the village store and grinding mill will use the Internet, even to
order and manage inventories. Even the village school will be changed by the
Internet.
You will see it
happen. Somewhere, somebody is already working to find a solution. Just five
years ago, if I had said to you, “Villagers in the remotest parts of Africa
will be able to receive money from anywhere in the world within five minutes or
even less,” what would you have said?
You're the ones
called to make this kind of thing happen. It’s your time. Is your toolbox
ready?”
Whether we like
it or not, not until people who are ready to make job available are more that
those who need it, the economic situation in our nations will always be the
same. Entrepreneurship is the way forward. What if the government make entrepreneurship compulsory like education
In the list of
excuses we all have in starting a business, capital happen to be on top. Everyone
always have one business idea or another, even if it can't be proven. If that is
the case, and if you truly will like to start your business right away, computer
connected to internet is what you need to get started.
That is even another
problem; imagine what you are asking me. Who says you are going into internet
business. By the way, what is internet business? Every human endeavour today
need internet to survive and triumph even if it is just for advertisement. Just
take that.
Considering the
last paragraph, I will write the second version of this article to clarify the importance of computer and internet in very business.
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