Published by the government of Zimbabwe
24 July 2008
Harare — BUSINESS people should remain confident and look to the future with optimism, motivational speaker Milton Kamwendo has said.
Speaking at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe congress held in Victoria Falls last week, he said the future looked bright for this country.
"Business people can easily lose confidence in Zimbabwe's current environment and resort to reducing rather than growing their business," he said.
Mr Kamwendo said that it was now the best time to expand business.
"If you do not make money now, you might never make money when things change," he said
Mr Kamwendo said it was necessary to look ahead and have vision, to see things not only as they are but also as they could be.
"What a lot of organisations called strategy was not really strategy, they held a strategic workshop, had a strategic document typed up and then put it away and forgot about it," said Mr Kamwendo.
He also said that it was possible to have knowledge without wisdom but not wisdom without knowledge and wisdom required learning something every day.
Past success was no guarantee for future success.
"If you keep doing what you have always done, then you always get less than you got last time,"
He maintained that the wisdom of a businessperson outlasted that of any politician.
To support this statement, he gave an example of the success of Coca-Cola, which was found all over the world and had outlasted many governments.
He urged the delegates to take personal responsibility rather than blame problems on other people or things.
"Getting priorities right is also important for business leaders, where there are leadership problems these could always be traced to wrong priorities," he said.
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I certainly agree Mr Awt;after every economic downturn there must surely be an economic upturn and opportunities abound now for the optimists.Ask the Generals they'll tell you.
Surely to remain optimistic, that would imply you are optimisitic in the first place. Surely beating, torturing and murdering your own people cant lead to optimism.