Countries, nations and societies sustainable
development requires a mentally and physically healthy population. People, who
are academically educated to adapt policies, implement plans, measure, report
and review processes and actions. Skilled workers, able to design, build and
produce Goods and Services for both foreign and domestic consumption. Persons
with gifted talents, who are identified early, encouraged, developed,
practiced, recognized and rewarded. Such sustainable development essentially
needs individuals with a strong constitution, who are prepared to take
unprecedented risks, to compete, diversify and expand local industries and
sectors. Hence, Entrepreneurs (Risk-Takers) are so critical, individuals who
use failures as learning tools and motivation to create success.
The focus on academic education has presented many
with a step up in the cast system, allowing persons to raise their family’s
standard of living, by passing examinations, researching and developing ideas,
and joining professional bodies. Academic workers provide the country, the
nation and the society, the much-needed specialists in various fields,
industries and sectors, policy-makers to improve decision-making, managers to
implement directives, and clerks to track the process. The mental ability to
follow rules and regulations, bought by these academic workers, from governance
to reporting, must be supported and maintained by skilled workers, to meet the
demands of targeted markets and to benefit all stakeholders.
Technical skill training, also referred to as
vocational education, has offered a poverty reduction solution, giving numerous
individuals lifelong production skills, by teaching safety, tools and equipment
maintenance and operation, diagnosing problems and scheduling management. Such
skilled workers are the productive class of a country, a nation and a society,
producing products for export to earn foreign currency, and add value to
products locally consumed to reduce import bills. The physical know-how, bought
by these skilled workers, from engineering and manufacturing, must be
efficiently structured and effectively organized by academic workers, to meet
market demands and to benefit all stakeholders.
Natural Talents, mastered through mentoring and
constant practice, spotted and nurtured from very young, has bought rewards and
fame to such persons and intangible value to the country, the nation and the society,
by encouraging and promoting these talents and simultaneously, presenting role
models. Such gifted individuals are unique examples. The country, the nation
and the society needs to focus its entire population on moral behaviors and
away from crime. Structured and organized by academic workers, supported and
maintained by skilled workers, applauded and appreciated by all, these gifted
individuals, from sports and culture, are spread throughout the social
consciousness.
Development without Risk-Takers will always lean
toward importing entrepreneurs, for it is this class of society that creates
employment. Risk-Taking is a lifestyle and cannot be taught in a classroom, a
workshop or practiced and perfected without multiple failures. A country, which
accepts global leaders to build new industries, is importing technical assistance.
A nation, with foresight, that welcomes emigrants, from repressive
circumstances, with nothing but survival instincts, is welcoming entrepreneurs.
A society, that teaches critical thinking, recognizes and encourages
risk-taking, is developing entrepreneurs. Hence, with respect and rewards, it
is these risk-takers will create sustainable development, economic growth and well-paying
jobs.
Rationale
T.A.J
& Associates Company Limited uses this occasion to
comment on topics that have been covered, both academically and by the
mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment opportunity, not
to invoke any social action.
