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Experts have harped on the need for government at all levels to embrace innovative leadership styles for more effective institutions which will in turn impact the economy and productivity of businesses.
Speaking at the launch of the book titled: “Cracking the Code of possibilities in Business” Goke Omidiran, Chief Executive Officer Quadaline Project said the nexus of leadership at whatever level is to be innovative and dynamics to reach set targets.
“The nexus to all this is leadership whether in a company or a nation or in the house hold leadership is the thing, what continues to miss out is leadership. The whole world is written in code the only time you breakthrough is to read the code and understand that the day we crack the code of every problem before us is the day we will have our solutions” Omidiran said.
“When you have innovative leadership that looks at the circumstance and thinks beyond what the ordinary, there is possibility opened to us. What makes a country grow is the small businesses who are able to employ 10 people at a time and replicate that over 180million that we have today in Nigeria we have huge population of unemployed youths” he said.
Omidiran stated that the government is to be blamed for bad business environment and lack of ideas to assist the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES). He advised that the government should give local companies more opportunities for contracts or carried along side with the bigger companies before awarding contracts to enhance growth, adding that the government should groom the SMES not just by providing loan but training and assisting them to grow, pair them with bigger companies so they can learn.
“There is something called local content done in the US and in Nigeria, local content is about a company that has an advantage because it is indigenous, an example of how local content works in the US is that a contract will only be given to Julius Berger if it will work together with a local company and a portion of the work will be apportioned to the local company to do” Omidiran said.
This way, “by the time they are done with the project the local company will learn and be able handle the contract like the big companies but in Nigeria all the work will be given to the big company, nobody cares about the small companies.”
Taiwo Fajolu, author of the book said “I wanted to look into innovative dynamics to effective institution and its impact on security and the economy and productive entrepreneurship and its effect on service delivery and profitability. Whether you are a pastor or a man from an institution you will need some people to respond to your economic needs and if there is no access for people to be able to do business, profitability will be problem.”
ANGEL JAMES
