Lets talk CHANGE!

Why change?

About 8 years ago, Nokia was the largest mobile maker phone company in the world and you will agree with me at one point in your life, you had a Nokia phone or if not so, two members of your family did. You see Nokia was a household item in many parts of the world but what has happened in the last 8 years in the tech and mobile phone industry saw this giant phone company not just lose market share, but lose its own self! Yea, they got bought out, lock ,stock and barrel! It is possible as I write this piece that Nokia is now only a brand name or product line at Microsoft Inc! More power to Microsoft!

Watching the press conference where the company made the big announcement that they have been acquired and lost to Microsoft  couldn't help get emotional as the teary CEO ended his statement by saying "we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. 

Lessons from Nokia and why change

Someone said the advantage you had yesterday will be replaced by the trends of tomorrow. Nokia never kept up with the trends of the day in the industry probably because they thought they were too big to be intimidated. The focus in the industry suddenly changed from handset which was their main dish to software . The Android wave hit the industry and instead of navigating through it they avoided it. They didn't do anything wrong but their competition  changed to fast. Sometimes to remain relevant you have to choose to work together or cope or make do with the provision of the day. Had Nokia adopted Android then, 100% sure, the story would be different.

-Change is the only constant thing in life, if you want to be constant in what you do,  you have to change your way of doing it constantly.  

 -Life is about growth, if you want to grow personally, in your studies, business or career you have to be very adaptive to change. 

-The world as it is today is created by the process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If you actually enjoy using your mobile phone and it makes things easier for you, someone went out of their way to create it and have ultimately changed your world. This is the kind of people that the world has celebrated and is in dire need of, and if there is something  you do not enjoy, you are not happy about it or you think can be improved, there goes your chance to change the world and make it a better place to live in. Friend, that's the only  way we shall celebrate and honor you and if you are not being celebrated you are possibly being tolerated! 

Be the change you wish to see in the world today who knows in 8 years you could be a world giant, a force to reckon with just like Nokia 8 years ago!