Everyone has an idea that can make a lasting difference, problem is they are not given a chance, not to do it, but just to be heard! If only they were listened to you will be amazed how those ideas can actually change lives. ./Ok3ch On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Watchman <skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone there have an idea of such proportions that can make a lasting difference? * The W.*
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:35 AM, saich <saiched@gmail.com> wrote:
Let’s draw parallels if Steve Jobs were a Kenyan. He did call the Intel CEO when he was 12 years old, explaining that he had a technical invention that he thought would be of help to the company. And the Intel CEO bought into his idea, and gave him a space and lab and equipment to bring his ideas to light. Let’s fictionalize how the conversation might have gone if he were a Kenyan.
So, let’s assume that he is Mc'Dubious here and the Intel CEO would be a CEO of a telecommunications/media company.
here is how the conversation would play out
*Mc'Dubious*: Hi, Sir, I’m Mc'Dubious. I have an amazing technology that I believe would be of help to your company.
*CEO: * And where did you develop the technology. Who helped you?
*Mc'Dubious*: No, I developed it myself, after the school classes.
*CEO:* So, you are still in school?
*Mc'Dubious:* Yes Sir.
*CEO:* Don’t you think it would have been better if you had finished school and then bring up the idea when you are through with school.
*Mc'Dubious*: No, but I already figured out the problem, so it makes no difference.
*CEO*: Listen, young man, or boy, finish school first, and then we’ll talk when you can come with the appropriate qualification and papers.
*Mc'Dubious*: But won’t you give me a chance sir, just to demonstrate it?
*CEO:* Listen, I will not enter into discussions with a kid. What do you know anyway.*hangs the phone quickly.*
*Mc'Dubious*: But, but…but….
And the dream would have died like that. And young Mc'Dubious would have been subsumed into the system, learning to adopt and stay afloat and twenty or thirty years, is a creative ghost of his former self.
I know this has happened or is bound to happen to many of you out there....
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