FROM SHARED SENSIBILITIES TO CONCRETE ACTIONS
FROM SHARED SENSIBILITIES TO CONCRETE ACTIONS
© 2017 By CHIBU NDUBUISI 18/12/2017
Peace be upon you.
What do you sense? How do you react to what you sense? Is your reaction proactive or reactive? When you sense poverty, disease, intolerance and indifference, what motivates you to action or indifference? This write up is not about what we truly sense but how the issues we sense propels us to proactive actions.
Bill Gates writes on how we can focus on the solvable part of the equation in solving the “Solvable Human Misery” (SHM). Decision making is part of the success equation. What decisions and commitments are we making today to help shape a better, peaceful and more secure future?
In his 2017 TED talk Jonathan Sacks titled “Facing the Future Together Without Fear” he averred that “when we have too much of the “I” and not enough of the “WE”, we find ourselves vulnerable, fearful and alone and that civilization survive not by strength but by how they respond to the weak not by wealth but by how they care for the poor, not by power but by the concern for the powerless. What renders a culture invulnerable is the concern it shows to the vulnerable”. Steve Jobs quipped that “ if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
Kenneth Amaeshi and George Ferns of the University of Edinburgh explains four strategies to drive positive change in business, I want to equally employ it here as part of a strategy to drive change in concrete terms not only business. They listed Philanthropic change, Corporate change, Visionary change and Change based leadership. I would add community based change.
On the Philanthropic front, foundations are used to address specific dire social problems like the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation is doing in their global fight for education, child health, women empowerment, on the Corporate change, using the Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) to drive change like many businesses do today, Visionary Change, restructuring social institutions to alter the trajectory of society for better like what the Tony Elumelu Foundation is doing with their Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) and Change based leadership, joining business strategy with social change endevours. I will also employ the concept of supportive, safe, informed and inclusive communities as illustrated by Mark Zukerberg as part of the elements that help make the world better.
Jonathan Sacks writes that “we can never read the book that tells about the long consequence of our acts. We never know how much we affect the lives of others---because when we change a life, we change the universe. This is how to make a difference one life at a time, one day at a time, and one act at a time; we never know in advance what efforts a single act may have”. How then do we programme ourselves to have ennobling thoughts that motivates us to positive acts?
Ladi Ayodeji writes about the “Imperatives of Pursuing a Life Project”, he posited that “a life project is not a personal ambition. It is about pursuing an idea worthy enough to impact humanity in a positive way.—what grows civilization are the positive contributions of every individual to every sphere of human endevour. He went further to advice that you must not allow any doctrine or creed that glorifies poverty as a form of humility or godliness to hold you back. A life project makes people of all generations talk about you in the present tense even when you are long dead. A life project is done to terminate suffering and make life better. Which life project are you called on to fulfill. You are not a bystander. You must search for what you want to do that meets what is crying out to be done.
My life project is to teach and through that teaching heal ignorance, and in the long run set up an academic institution. It was Sir Francis Beacon who averred that “knowledge is power” and when knowledge is distributed equally, then power is distributed equally too.” The simplest and most effective way of creating a society of equal dignity is to make knowledge equally assessable to all. It helps lead to more productive living.
Going through the GAVI, the vaccine alliance 2016 Annual Report, the CEO, Dr Seth Bertley wrote about three spectacular innovations that will make immunization get to people easier. The first one is the Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in Immunization (INFUSE), the second Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP), this is particularly vital for Nigeria since we don’t always have electricity. The third is the Autonomous Drone based medical Delivery System in Rwanda. This is definitely a way to go to help make the world a better place.
These are but a few of the things crying out to be done. John F Kennedy wrote that “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot protect the few who are rich”.
Peace be with you
Read more articles @www. chibundubuisi.blogspot.com
© 2017 By CHIBU NDUBUISI 18/12/2017
What do you sense? How do you react to what you sense? Is your reaction proactive or reactive? When you sense poverty, disease, intolerance and indifference, what motivates you to action or indifference? This write up is not about what we truly sense but how the issues we sense propels us to proactive actions.
Bill Gates writes on how we can focus on the solvable part of the equation in solving the “Solvable Human Misery” (SHM). Decision making is part of the success equation. What decisions and commitments are we making today to help shape a better, peaceful and more secure future?
In his 2017 TED talk Jonathan Sacks titled “Facing the Future Together Without Fear” he averred that “when we have too much of the “I” and not enough of the “WE”, we find ourselves vulnerable, fearful and alone and that civilization survive not by strength but by how they respond to the weak not by wealth but by how they care for the poor, not by power but by the concern for the powerless. What renders a culture invulnerable is the concern it shows to the vulnerable”. Steve Jobs quipped that “ if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
Kenneth Amaeshi and George Ferns of the University of Edinburgh explains four strategies to drive positive change in business, I want to equally employ it here as part of a strategy to drive change in concrete terms not only business. They listed Philanthropic change, Corporate change, Visionary change and Change based leadership. I would add community based change.
On the Philanthropic front, foundations are used to address specific dire social problems like the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation is doing in their global fight for education, child health, women empowerment, on the Corporate change, using the Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) to drive change like many businesses do today, Visionary Change, restructuring social institutions to alter the trajectory of society for better like what the Tony Elumelu Foundation is doing with their Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) and Change based leadership, joining business strategy with social change endevours. I will also employ the concept of supportive, safe, informed and inclusive communities as illustrated by Mark Zukerberg as part of the elements that help make the world better.
Jonathan Sacks writes that “we can never read the book that tells about the long consequence of our acts. We never know how much we affect the lives of others---because when we change a life, we change the universe. This is how to make a difference one life at a time, one day at a time, and one act at a time; we never know in advance what efforts a single act may have”. How then do we programme ourselves to have ennobling thoughts that motivates us to positive acts?
Ladi Ayodeji writes about the “Imperatives of Pursuing a Life Project”, he posited that “a life project is not a personal ambition. It is about pursuing an idea worthy enough to impact humanity in a positive way.—what grows civilization are the positive contributions of every individual to every sphere of human endevour. He went further to advice that you must not allow any doctrine or creed that glorifies poverty as a form of humility or godliness to hold you back. A life project makes people of all generations talk about you in the present tense even when you are long dead. A life project is done to terminate suffering and make life better. Which life project are you called on to fulfill. You are not a bystander. You must search for what you want to do that meets what is crying out to be done.
My life project is to teach and through that teaching heal ignorance, and in the long run set up an academic institution. It was Sir Francis Beacon who averred that “knowledge is power” and when knowledge is distributed equally, then power is distributed equally too.” The simplest and most effective way of creating a society of equal dignity is to make knowledge equally assessable to all. It helps lead to more productive living.
Going through the GAVI, the vaccine alliance 2016 Annual Report, the CEO, Dr Seth Bertley wrote about three spectacular innovations that will make immunization get to people easier. The first one is the Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in Immunization (INFUSE), the second Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP), this is particularly vital for Nigeria since we don’t always have electricity. The third is the Autonomous Drone based medical Delivery System in Rwanda. This is definitely a way to go to help make the world a better place.
These are but a few of the things crying out to be done. John F Kennedy wrote that “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot protect the few who are rich”.
Peace be with you
Read more articles @www. chibundubuisi.blogspot.com
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