5.2. Lessons from Self-made Billionaires
Learning from the self-made men and women who are today’s billionaires and millionaires can have an enormous impact on an organization’s success. The firm can motivate its employees and vested stakeholders to draw and learn significant lessons from successful peoples’ lives. The firm can pioneer a well-stocked library and lead a dynamic book club as one of the ways employees are exposed and incentivized to the idea of readiness to learn, interact with people from various backgrounds that inevitably sparks new ideas that cause a shift/transform at all levels. Availability of such opportunities that is, tools and aids for self-reflection, personal improvement and selfactualization challenges employees to become and do whatever they truly care about, for example resource efficiency, waste management, pollution reduction, optimal use of energy as they are keenly conscious of their surrounding with clear fore and back sight of the economy of the future. More still, access to diverse information on several walks in life will renew minds, bring about transformation, challenge old perspectives and clear the mental and material confusion as the principle of connectivity is made visible. Making deliberate changes, consistently acquiring relevant skills and knowledge will secure a deep knowing of ecosystems. More efficient eco designs, services, products, means and factors of productions will consequently follow. Today some companies incorporate regular brainstorming sessions that are followed by harsh criticisms presided over by renowned corporate consultants to boost the next great ideas that are being exploited. For instance, some of the Fortune 500 is in the business of hiring experts like Claudia Kotchka to inspire new designs and products that have continually boosted their profit margins. Others like Barbara Corcoran, Brain Tracy, Les Brown, Deepak Chopra and Jack Canfield to mention but a few can assist companies transform employee talents into performance. This practice can be introduced and initiated in developing economies like Uganda’s Katwe, a suburb where there is a vibrant local talent without proper direction and facilitation.