Opinion / Columnist
Strive Masiyiwa saving lives
29 Aug 2014 at 07:59hrs | Views
Strive Masiyiwa, the chairperson and founder of Econet Wireless Group, a global telecommunications service provider, is saving money and lives through Facebook, which is one of the world's biggest social network platforms.
The Econet boss shares very insightful and practical business information with his thousands of friends and followers all over the world who are using the same platform to testify on how their businesses and lives have been transformed through these business tips.
Masiyiwa's Facebook initiative of sharing business insights on social media has multiple mutual benefits to him and his followers in that his tried and tested ideas are helping many emerging entrepreneurs to run their businesses professionally and successfully for the benefit of their families and communities.
With the cost of attending business schools and employing professional employees being a challenge to most small-to-medium enterprises, it has actually been cheaper for a number of people to just log onto social media and get this valuable information.
Although Masiyiwa's Facebook posts are not intended to replace formal education in business studies, they are, however, more practical and usable, especially considering that they are coming from real life scenarios, spanning across continents.
One of the advantages in this development is that the enthusiastic and emerging entrepreneurs can then compile and keep these insightful posts so that they can read and refer to them at their own time.
Research on the success and failures of small to medium enterprises has proven that over 50% of emerging businesses fail, with lack of knowledge by the proprietors to make informed decisions in their operations being cited as one of the most contributing factors.
Having over 400 000 likes on his Facebook page, which translates to an average of 15 000 likes and 2 000 shares per post, Masiyiwa, a confessed Christian, has become one of the most formidable marketplace apostles who are practising their faith through works.
This development means that an increase in profitable business activities through these inspired posts is likely to bring about a general increase and improvement in the standard of living which will, in turn create a healthy future generation and a stable society.
A healthy, informed generation and stable society is then also likely to be preoccupied, with productive activities in a way that guarantees peace, order and security as compared to people who become frustrated by failures in their communities.
Business failures, especially by emerging entrepreneurs, are dangerous to the economy in that they result in stressed and hopeless individuals whose health is greatly threatened. Frustrated and hopeless people adopt the law of the jungle - which is survival of the fittest tactics - in their day to day living and thus doing away with morals and mutual respect for fellow human beings.
A society of stressed, hopeless and sickly people is likely to succumb to poverty which will, in turn, result in chaotic scramble for the available limited resources and this is the major cause of instability, especially in poor and undeveloped countries.
Source - Zim Mail
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