SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP .

WHAT EXACTLY IS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

Look at this message I found in my inbox this morning. dickensogango@blogspot.com

Hello,

thank you very much for sharing! My name is Wira. I am from Bali,Indonesia. I am actively involved in Social ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECTS to develop local communities here in Bali.  Our purpose is :
 - Guide local communities to collaborate in developing creative, and    sustainable collective enterprises.
 - Encourage young people to pursue entrepreneurship together.
- Create a movement to advance economic growth in the community. - Develop local self-determination in economic and cultural matters.
 - Provide employment opportunities for local communities based on values for cultural preservation, environmental protection,community development,and  economic sustainability.

 Today We still on the  progress , and we would love to have some advisor or maybe anybody that want to get involved, help us or want to learn more and sharing the information value about what we're doing in Bali. For more information, please contact me at Wirausahawanbali@gmail.com
You can find a bit of our info in : https://www.facebook.com/wirausahabali

Thanks,

 -Wira

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT : HOW TO LIVE AN IMPACT

By Renee Booth
Over the years I have watched numerous professionals retire or make significant career transitions. For many, it is often a time of not only deep self-reflection, but also a level of uncertainty and angst. Based on my experience working with these individuals, below are five points of advice that I would offer to help make a transition something to embrace rather than fear.
1. Just Do It: Transitions are often hard. Delay doesn’t help. Decide when it’s time to go and tell someone to hold you accountable for making your move. How you end things is just as important as how you begin them. Be optimistic about the future, even when you don’t know what exactly it holds.
2. Think About the Short-term: For once, think about the short term rather than the long term. You don’t need a well thought out strategy (assuming you are financially prepared). A one year plan for what you plan to do when you leave is often better than a 5 year plan. Some things you just have to experience before you can get them right. It’s not important to know exactly what you will do with all the new found time in your life. Things are likely to become clearer once you’re gone. Focus first on how you would like to feel once you’ve left your job, rather than what specifically you would like to do. Also, think less about activities and more about relationships – particularly those you may have left behind because you have been so busy working and building your career.
3. Celebrate Your Departure: Forget about losing your status or becoming a lame duck once your departure is announced. It’s important for the organization and you to take an adequate amount of time to get prepared for the transition and your permanent absence. Also, the messages of gratitude and support that inevitably will come your way are an important part of mourning the loss of a job that you’ve committed to for so long. You’ll remember those messages for the rest of your life. Don't deny yourself that pleasure. How you emotionally handle your departure will send a very powerful message to others around you, and you want to be remembered in a very positive way.
4. Be Careful About Leaving a Legacy: Try not to become preoccupied by leaving a visible legacy of your tenure. Your tenure and what you did during it IS in fact your true legacy. The work you’ve done, the people you’ve touched, and your overall impact on the organization is what will be remembered. Your contributions will be inevitably interwoven into the fabric of those who came before you and those who will come after you.
5. Don’t Look Back: Move on. Wanting to hold on to what you’ve had is a natural inclination. We define ourselves so much by our jobs that it’s naturally scary to let go. Be brave! Initially, avoid calling old colleagues to find out what’s been happening back on the job. Find new people to have lunch or dinner with. Engage in new and different conversations. The future is not as scary as you think. In fact, if you give it a chance, the future is likely to be far more interesting and invigorating than what you may feel so committed to in the moment.

#BREAKINGTHEINFERIORITYCOMPLEX

DANIEL 28:32 ......  THOSE who know their God shall be strong and do exploits.

The time has come, to rise from the ashes, slay dream killers,and the gonna doers become the new doers, nobody should feel inferior because all of us have equal rights & responsibilities enshrined in constitution #socialmilk and manna should be arriving anytime from now .We should learn to be ourself since everyone else is taken.That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.The biggest challenge in life is accepting ‘you’ as you are with your innate strengths and inherent weaknesses. The most tedious endeavor is trying to impress others. Seek to understand, not to be understood, argues Dr. Kinyanjui Nganga,a fellow motivational speaker.  In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. A candle does not loose its light by lighting another candle .

DR.EVANS ODHIAMBO KIDERO, WHY DID HE MISS MADARAKA DAY 2016?

WHY KIDERO MISSED MADARAKA DAY

Something very conspicuous happened on Wednesday, Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero was missing from the Madaraka Day celebrations held by the county government in Starehe Constituency.

Not just that but the governor who won his seat via an ODM ticket was was not seen at Uhuru Park where his coalition Cord had organised a rally that was meant to mirror the President Uhuru Kenyatta-led official Madaraka day celebrations at Afraha Stadium in Nakuru.
DICKENS NEWS  reports that county officials were also unable to explain where Kidero was. When asked, the County Chief of Staff George Wainaina said that the Governor had not communicated to them about his plans.
But on the other hand, County Planning Executive Christopher Khaemba, the one who read out Kidero’s speech, said the Governor was involved with “other commitments”.
The event, which was the first Madaraka Day celebrations organised by the county government, took place at Pumwani sports grounds, and attracted a large crowd of locals.
Starehe MP Maina Kamanda who was among leaders who spoke at the celebrations which was a first after the President decided to hold the national one in Nakuru instead of Nairobi, called for peace and tolerance on the part of the opposition.
“We only have one president in Kenya. Those trying to use backdoor or think of nusu mkate should forget it,” the paper quoted Kamanda.
As Tuko notes, the 53rd Madaraka Day commemoration was celebrated with a show of might among politicians, as the country gets ready to hold its General Election in 2017.
Also conspicuously absent from county celebrations were Governor Isaac Ruto, Senator Wilfred Lesan and other elected leaders in Bomet county who decided to skip the event that was held at Bomet Green Stadium.
The rest are; the county woman representative Cecilia Ng’etich, MPs Ronald Tonui (Bomet Central), Joyce Laboso (Sotik), Benard Bett (Bomet East), Sammy Koech (Konoin) and Paul Bii (Chepalungu).
In Kisumu, various leaders including Governor Jack Ranguma, Senator Anyang’ Nyong’o and deputy governor Ruth Odinga missed the county’s Madaraka Day celebrations, and instead attended the Cord rally held in Nairobi.

BY DICKENS O. OGANGO, CORPORATE SPEAKER, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER AND MENTOR

POWER OF THE MIND : EVANGELIST DICKENS ODHIAMBO OGANGO

Nothing is more powerful in the world than changing your mind. You can change your residence, clothes, friends, job, career or nationality but if you don’t change your mind, your world will remain the same for a lifetime.  
We perform in accordance to the picture we have about ourselves. Our world views. All you have ever achieved could be a tip of the ice berg of what you can achieve.  You are 95% of who you are by age 35. To live up-to your full potential, you need to shift the operating system until winning in life fuses with your subconscious mind. 
Your thought controls your life. Your mind is your greatest asset in this life. It’s the key to peace and life (happiness). Unmanaged life leads to tension, pressure, stress and chaos. A managed life leads to strength, security, serenity and peace. If you want a healthy mind, you must feed your mind with truth. God is more interested in changing your mind than changing your circumstances. 
Stephen R. Covey argues that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.  
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. If you don't get out of the box you were raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. Just because something has always been done in a certain way is never a sufficient reason for continuing to do it that way. It is Albert Einstein who argued, we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. 
As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Life is not a problem to be solved, but rather a mystery to be lived. Our duty therefore, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever. 
There is no reality in the absence of observation. If you believe in something, no proof is required. If you don't believe, no proof is sufficient. Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles. What if you reached the end of your life only to discover it was all wrong? You barely survived. What a tragedy to realize on your death bed that you never lived!  
Was your life worth living? If you died today, what dreams, what gifts, what talents, what ideas will die with you? Have you been benchmarking with too low a standard. Suppose the Lord tells His angels to write on your tombstone, ‘Not used up’, and then reveals to you all you were meant to be? Could you be having the wrong picture about your capabilities? Could you be living way below your privileges?  
In the last nine months, I have taught many inspiring topics like: You Don’t Need a Job; Fake Money; Personality Dramas; Why Men are Linear and Women are Cyclic; Don’t Go Down Without a Fight; Secure Your Life in 90 Days; No Man Stands Alone; Re-invent Yourself – the Art of Personal Branding; and Starting all Over Again from Ground Zero. And honestly, I have received countless moving testimonies of changed lives as a result. 
But if I must teach you only one thing this year that would propel you to a whole new level of imagination, it is about shifting your paradigms – changing your world views. This is truly your defining moment. You can't change the fruit without changing the root. The best analogy I can give to stinking thinking is death. Paradigm shift, on the other hand, is like resurrection. 
The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms. 
Everything you don’t use, you lose. This is the law of use. And the Lord Himself said, ‘to those who have, more will be added unto them, and unto those who do not have, even the little that they have will be taken away from them.’ Most people fail in life NOT because they aimed too high and failed to achieve but because they aimed too low and achieved. The rate of change in the world is phenomenal. There is just no space for whiners. Unfortunately, the world comprises of only 5% movers and 95% observers. Are you a mover or an observer? 
How then do you become a mover? Paradigm Shift. Shift Your Thinking. Change your mental pictures. Reload your operating system. Invest in self masterly. Do you take time to go to classes or self improvement seminars? If you don’t, you will make a settlement. Taking a less option than you were originally designed. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to be a loser. You don’t get in life what you want, you get who you are. The best investment you can ever make is in yourself. Do you sell yourself cheap? Have you packaged yourself below your Maker’s Master Plan? 
Few Africans deliberately invest in themselves. Especially those living in the African continent. We prefer to bleat about our colonial heritage. We find solace in second class global citizenry status. We have accepted to play second violin. ‘For how long?’ I ask. When shall third world rise up to be first world? When shall the last be the first? Answer: when we undergo a mind shift. A paradigm surgery of our thought system, individually and corporately as a people. Now is our time. 
It is time we shifted our focus. What do you read? What do you watch? When is the last time you fed your mind with the pure and the clean? Do you need to shift your associations? Look at the guys around you. Are you living together or dying together? Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny. As one of our African proverb goes, if there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm. 
Check the people in your circles? Are they an asset or a liability? Do you need a shift of your environment? Do you need a shift of your self-talk? From a defeatist picture to a victorious picture? Did you know our own fears are often self fulfilling? 
If you truly look forward to a quantum leap in your life, join me as we examine, Changing the Picture, at Laico Regency Hotel on monday the 6th June 2016 from 6pm to 8pm. These are not empty promises. I don’t speak for attention. I speak with intention. I invite you to listen and subscribe for inspirational articles.

 

EVANGELIST DICKENS ODHIAMBO OGANGO - COACH, CONSULTANT, TRAINER. MENTOR AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER 

 MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, EVANGELIST DICKENS ODHIAMBO OGANGO

TELLS YOU THE STORY OF ;

5 Entrepreneurs In Africa Who Started A Successful Business With $100 Or Less

Gist Today 6 days ago

Let me start by saying that there are terrible lies about starting a business. One of the dumbest lies is that business is for people who are illiterate. Jeeez! That’s pathetic. Another fat lie is that you need really huge amount of capitals. Another lie from the pit of……….ignorance!

Now, i want to debunk those lies by sharing this short stories of 5 Entrepreneurs in Africa Who Started a Successful Business with $100 or Less in hand. Guess what? They are smiling to the banks after just having started a few years ago.

Now let’s meet them…

1. Heshan de Silva (Kenya):


In 2007, Heshan de Silva dropped out of school and as things got worse for him in the US, he joined his parents back in Kenya to get his life back together.

Aged only 18 at the time, his parents gave him 10,000 Kenyan Shillings (US$116), which he used to start a new business. He targeted the bus travel sector in the country by selling insurance bundled with the bus ticket purchase. And it is widely reported in the media that by the end of the year, the business had made 90m Kenyan Shillings (US$1.05m). Isn’t that amazing!? Heshan has since invested that money in his new business, De Silva Group, a venture capital firm.

With an incomplete education, no capital, not even a great deal of life experience and yet Heshan made it in a short period of time. He was featured in CNN and Forbes Magazine as one of Africa’s most successful young.

2. Abasiama Idaresit (Nigeria):


Abasiama Idaresit graduated with an MBA at Manchester Business School and moved back to Nigeria in 2010 to start his own business. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Wild Fusion, a digital marketing company.

Guess what? He started his company in 2010 with a gift of $250 from his mother and it took him 8 months to make the first deal. Just three years later, Visa, Vodafone, Samsung and Unilever as well as several large Pan-African corporations are his clients and his company is valued at over $6 million in revenue. Yes, you heard that indeed right; $6 million! And yes, he started in 2010. Wild Fusion has now become Google’s certified partner in Africa!

3. Axel Fourie (South Africa):


Take Axel Fourie from South Africa. By the time he was 27, he had tried unsuccessfully to set up several businesses. When his iPod was faulty and he was told by specialists that nothing could be done about it, he searched for a YouTube video online and learned how to fix the iPod himself!

He then put an advert into a local newspaper and offered to fix faulty iPhones and iPads. The response he got exceeded his expectations as he was flooded with calls and requests from potential customers. He knew he was onto something!

Axel opened his company iFix and started fixing iPods and iPhones from his university dorm. This was in 2007. Today, Alex runs a chain of 8 stores and employs 85 people. He has since expanded his business into manufacturing mobile phone accessories which he exports into 12 countries across Africa. Oh, we forgot to mention the amount of his starting capital. Here it is: Zero! (unless he paid a little for that newspaper ad).

4. Anna Phosa (South Africa):


Anna Phosa started her pig farm venture in 2004 in Soweto with about $100 in hand. She bought four pigs with that money after she was introduced to pig farming by a close friend.

A little less than four years later, in 2008, Anna was contracted by Pick ‘n Pay, the South African supermarket and retail giant to supply its stores with 10 pigs per week. This was a first breakthrough and the request by the retailer grew quickly to 20 pigs per week.

But the really amazing bit happened in 2010 when Anna signed a breathtaking contract with Pick ‘n Pay to supply 100 pigs over the next five years under a 25 million Rand deal – that’s nearly 2.5 million US Dollars!

She did not even have so much land or enough pigs! With a contract in hand, Anna received funding from ABSA Bank and USAID to buy a 350-hectare farm property.

Anna started with 4 pigs in 2004, today her farm employs about 20 staff rearing 4,000 pigs at a time. Her perseverance has made her a millionaire!

5. Jacky Goliath and Elton Jefthas (South Africa):


The venture ( De Fynne Nursery) started in 2001 by South African entrepreneurs, Jacky Goliath and Elton Jefthas, in Jeftah’s home backyard. Market demand grew fast and steadily which meant that they moved the nursery to a 0.5 hectare land in 2005, and in 2008 had to move again to a 1.5 hectare area outside Cape Town where they hosted 600,000 plants!

Today, the De Fynne nursery supplies its products to retailers such as Woolworths, Massmart and Spar in South Africa and it was reported that they since moved to a whopping 22-hectare commercial property. This is a simple start up idea on a shoe string budget anywhere in Africa where you have a booming housing & hotel sector and expanding city areas!

It’s Your Turn…
What are you waiting for? Will you allow your mum, dad, sister, brother, friend, enemy, the government, college degree or whatever to stop you? After reading this, do you still think that you need a million dollar to start that business? I don’t think so. While you’re not guaranteed success but you’ll never know if a business will succeed or fail when you start. Just start anyway.

I hope this article inspired you to start your business today. Not tomorrow.

Share this to Inspire a Friend.

TOP 5 Entrepreneurs Born In Africa Who Started their Successful Businesses With less than $100 

dickensogango@blogspot.com

Let me start by saying that there are terrible lies about starting a business. One of the dumbest lies is that business is for people who are illiterate. Jeeez! That’s pathetic. Another fat lie is that you need really huge amount of capitals. Another lie from the pit of……….ignorance!

Now, i want to debunk those lies by sharing this short stories of 5 Entrepreneurs in Africa Who Started a Successful Business with $100 or Less in hand. Guess what? They are smiling to the banks after just having started a few years ago.

Now let’s meet them…

1. Heshan de Silva (Kenya):


In 2007, Heshan de Silva dropped out of school and as things got worse for him in the US, he joined his parents back in Kenya to get his life back together.

Aged only 18 at the time, his parents gave him 10,000 Kenyan Shillings (US$116), which he used to start a new business. He targeted the bus travel sector in the country by selling insurance bundled with the bus ticket purchase. And it is widely reported in the media that by the end of the year, the business had made 90m Kenyan Shillings (US$1.05m). Isn’t that amazing!? Heshan has since invested that money in his new business, De Silva Group, a venture capital firm.

With an incomplete education, no capital, not even a great deal of life experience and yet Heshan made it in a short period of time. He was featured in CNN and Forbes Magazine as one of Africa’s most successful young.

2. Abasiama Idaresit (Nigeria):


Abasiama Idaresit graduated with an MBA at Manchester Business School and moved back to Nigeria in 2010 to start his own business. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Wild Fusion, a digital marketing company.

Guess what? He started his company in 2010 with a gift of $250 from his mother and it took him 8 months to make the first deal. Just three years later, Visa, Vodafone, Samsung and Unilever as well as several large Pan-African corporations are his clients and his company is valued at over $6 million in revenue. Yes, you heard that indeed right; $6 million! And yes, he started in 2010. Wild Fusion has now become Google’s certified partner in Africa!

3. Axel Fourie (South Africa):


Take Axel Fourie from South Africa. By the time he was 27, he had tried unsuccessfully to set up several businesses. When his iPod was faulty and he was told by specialists that nothing could be done about it, he searched for a YouTube video online and learned how to fix the iPod himself!

He then put an advert into a local newspaper and offered to fix faulty iPhones and iPads. The response he got exceeded his expectations as he was flooded with calls and requests from potential customers. He knew he was onto something!

Axel opened his company iFix and started fixing iPods and iPhones from his university dorm. This was in 2007. Today, Alex runs a chain of 8 stores and employs 85 people. He has since expanded his business into manufacturing mobile phone accessories which he exports into 12 countries across Africa. Oh, we forgot to mention the amount of his starting capital. Here it is: Zero! (unless he paid a little for that newspaper ad).

4. Anna Phosa (South Africa):


Anna Phosa started her pig farm venture in 2004 in Soweto with about $100 in hand. She bought four pigs with that money after she was introduced to pig farming by a close friend.

A little less than four years later, in 2008, Anna was contracted by Pick ‘n Pay, the South African supermarket and retail giant to supply its stores with 10 pigs per week. This was a first breakthrough and the request by the retailer grew quickly to 20 pigs per week.

But the really amazing bit happened in 2010 when Anna signed a breathtaking contract with Pick ‘n Pay to supply 100 pigs over the next five years under a 25 million Rand deal – that’s nearly 2.5 million US Dollars!

She did not even have so much land or enough pigs! With a contract in hand, Anna received funding from ABSA Bank and USAID to buy a 350-hectare farm property.

Anna started with 4 pigs in 2004, today her farm employs about 20 staff rearing 4,000 pigs at a time. Her perseverance has made her a millionaire!

5. Jacky Goliath and Elton Jefthas (South Africa):


The venture ( De Fynne Nursery) started in 2001 by South African entrepreneurs, Jacky Goliath and Elton Jefthas, in Jeftah’s home backyard. Market demand grew fast and steadily which meant that they moved the nursery to a 0.5 hectare land in 2005, and in 2008 had to move again to a 1.5 hectare area outside Cape Town where they hosted 600,000 plants!

Today, the De Fynne nursery supplies its products to retailers such as Woolworths, Massmart and Spar in South Africa and it was reported that they since moved to a whopping 22-hectare commercial property. This is a simple start up idea on a shoe string budget anywhere in Africa where you have a booming housing & hotel sector and expanding city areas!

It’s Your Turn…
What are you waiting for? Will you allow your mum, dad, sister, brother, friend, enemy, the government, college degree or whatever to stop you? After reading this, do you still think that you need a million dollar to start that business? I don’t think so. While you’re not guaranteed success but you’ll never know if a business will succeed or fail when you start. Just start anyway.

I hope this article inspired you to start your business today. Not tomorrow.

Share this to Inspire a Friend.