CREATING A SUCCESFUL BUSINESS CORPORATION; A Business Leader Anecdote II.

SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP

Leadership is not all about title, rather leadership is all about passion, vision, drive and commitment embroiled and exhumed through service.
Following a dearth of business leadership, there is an urgent need for a trend reversal with a view of creating new generational leaders who are poised to create, build and develop a highly successful business corporation that constantly create a “High Value Product” for the marketplace.
Hence, there is a need to examine important leadership qualities that determines the extent of your success as a business leader;

1. SPIRIT
Every true leader has a spirit which is an embodiment of their core nature containing their value product which continues to stimulate passion, vision and drive. Leaders are men on the move with a passion and a mission of influence. This mission stimulates and builds influence which attracts people of “LIKE MINDS” who join together to build a corporation streamlined and directed towards achieving a broad aim and objective.
So, the starting point of every great business leader is to discover their spirit. Discovering the content of your spirit determines your Product.

2. INFLUENCE
Influence is a life that triggers a positive force that most times culminates into a mental and psychological change. The efficacy of an influence is measured by the quality and quantity of the change it produces.
A business leader of influence having discovered the content of his spirit builds up himself to attract “High Quality workforce” who creates products of sustainable influence on the market place.

3. CREATING A SIMULATIONAL EFFECT
The main function of a business leader is to create a simulational effect that links the various structural arm of a corporation with each arm contributing its own quota towards the development of a unified product that is basically structured towards the attainment of a corporation’s aims and objectives.
Creating a simulational effect as a leader also enable the creation of an enabling environment that stimulates teamwork

CREATING A SUCCESFUL BUSINESS CORPORATION; A Business Leader Anecdote.

To succeed as a business leader in building a successful business corporation, you’d to:

1. UNDERSTAND YOUR VALUE
Value is the real thing. The real stuff you are communicating or selling is not the physical product but rather the value that your product communicates. You see, what Coca-Cola is selling is not a bottle of black liquid but rather, what they are selling is “Refreshment” Walt Disney sells Fun and Happiness and not Mickey mouse. Mickey Mouse is just a way of selling their real value.
Value itself is not physical or visible but invisible; Value is a life being communicated via the physical product. Your physical product is like a house that houses the real product which is “VALUE”.
So, understand this, your real product is the value you are giving. It could be Peace, Joy, Fun, Refreshment, Comfortability or ease and they are intangible. “IT IS YOUR ABILITY TO CONVERT THAT INTANGIBLE VALUE INTO A TANGIBLE PRODUCT THAT DEFINES YOUR CREATIVE FORCE AS AN ENTREPRENUER “.

So, what is your value? Your value is that positive drive you have on the inside, it is positive and beneficial designed and must be orchestrated towards meeting needs and solving human problem.

2. DEVELOP A PRODUCT OUT OF YOUR VALUE
After understanding your value, you have to exercise creative ingenuity in converting your value which is intangible into a tangible product, the same way Walt Disney converted Fun and Joy into Mickey Mouse and the same way Dolce and Gabbana converted sense of elegance into cloths and fashion and like I said “it is your ability to convert that intangible value into a tangible product that defines your creative ingenuity as an entrepreneur.
And after discovering your product, develop it; Make it of better quality and increase its quantity. Quality increases your products monetary worth while quantity increases its’ monetary volume.

3. BUILD A TEAM OR CORPORATION
A corporation is “A conglomeration of people with diverse talents, expertise and technical know how all uniting together for a common goal and objective”.
Building a corporation is one of the defining stuffs that will define your success as a business leader. The main function of a business leader is to create a simulational effect that attracts a team of skilled employees who will leverage on each others strength to create an high quality product that effectively serves and meet market needs.
It is no gainsaying to say that the strength of a leader lies in the quality of his followers (employees). Hence, ability to create an effect that not only attracts skillful workers, but that which also creates an enabling environment that stimulates team work is of urgent need to an entrepreneur.
Hence, to create a successful business corporation, you, as a business leader must;

a. Recognize and employ Skillful, talented, committed and experienced workforce with high degree of expertise.
b. Must be able to create an effective workplace environment that attracts high quality people; skilled and committed towards building an high quality product.
c. Create a simulational effect that encourages and promotes teamwork with each employee organized and integrated into specialized structure leveraging on each others strength to create and build a unified product of “HIGH UTILITY” that effectively serves market needs.

4. DEVELOP A SYSTEM
A system is a structured corporation with each structural arm specializing into specified department and specialized towards performing specific service that integrates into the common objectives of a corporation.

5. SELL, SELL, SELL.

JOB ‘N’ WORK, the African perspective

Work is quite different from a job while the later inundates a state of being offered a chance or place to work, the other exemplify the state of using both your mental and physical effort towards creating a solution that meets needs and solves problems.
The state of being unemployed to a broad extent refers to a state of having no job and does not necessarily mean having no work. The reality is that in the society, there are thousands of works to be done, but fewer jobs to do the work, hence, the need for an enterprising initiator to cultivate and initiate a system of building an organization with a solid system inbuilt with an organic and structured system that will employ people to do the work.

In reality, there is no unemployment all we lack is “LACK OF INNOVATION”
So, the best way to solve the problem of unemployment is by encouraging and fast tracking the development of an innovative mindset spurring out creative products and services and built around a well structured organization.
The problem with Africa is that we have long been taught to be dependant and never independent. Centuries ago, we were taught to depend on our colonial masters, now we are being taught to depend on the government for virtually everything. This unequivocally stiffens creativity and promotes a state of dependency that overtime cripples our economy and gives room for bureaucracy and despondency which destroy excellent service delivery.

Hence, there is the need to promote innovative mindset in Africa. This, the government can enhance by investing in education and creating suitable and sustainable policies and systems that will promote the spirit of innovation.

FAST TRACKING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Organizational development is not a metaphorical paradox but rather a functionalist theory that can easily be applied to any organization of sort.
In order to fast track your organizational development from the spectrum of functionality, I guess there is the need to employ a principle propounded by Emile Durkheim. According to Emile, “the society is an organic structure with each structural part contributing its own quota to the development of that organism”
Your business as an organizational structure is an organic entity whose level of optimum efficiency depends on the quality and quantity of the products of its structural part. In order to fast track the development of your organization as an organic entity, there is the need to;

A. Make every member of your organization understand that they are all important to the health of your organization. They have to understand that they are part of a structural organism with every functioning member all contributing their own quota to the overall efficiency and development of that organism.
A dearth or inefficiency in a quota will cause a ripple effect all over the organism causing your organization as an organic system to operate below its opium.
This sensitization or awareness I believe, can be carried out through an educational system developed by the organization through training or any other educational program deemed fit and also by employing the principle of tracking to place every functional member into their area of efficiency for effective and total development of your organization.

B. Create a synaptic link that connects every arm of your organization causing the different arms of the system to work together in harmony leveraging on each other strength to deliver a superior product and service that will effectively serve the market need.

C. Establish a system that rewards outstanding organic member.

D. Also establish a mentorship program that will transmit the knowledge and experience of the past to the present for proper modification and effective integration into today’s and tomorrow economic reality.