Ideas Rule the World…

What happened to the United States of America last week was felt across countries globally and it has kept me thinking about how much more change this world would experience in the coming years, I remembered writing a certain piece over a year ago, which I think just proved me right. So am sharing this one with you as a honour to a man who has demonstrated extreme determination and this display of an ability to achieve if you believe.

Congratulations "Barack Obama"

Ideas Rule the World…. By Kenoma Agbamu (10/22/2007)

Looking through the perspective of how society has been changing and evolving in the last centuries one thing that has been constant is that every change in the society starts with an individual which then is directly linked to the way ideas are being configured by people.

From past to present, from the richest economies to the poorest, from the most peaceful territories to the most disturbed, Ideas have played a crucial role in shaping leadership styles in public, private and civil societies through different times and space.

When you look at the evolution of the world of technology, science and business it is however clear that there is a triggering element that has strongly influenced the core of innovation and creativity in these areas and this element is nothing but the way ideas are configured.

Some of the greatest minds of recent times have leveraged ideas to make different impacts in society; the Google duo Larry Page and Sergey Brin out of curiosity challenged the way search engines work and with an idea to integrate a page ranking formula they have change the way people use the internet, today the word Google is almost taking over the word "search" all you hear is Google this, Google that.

The likes of Mohammed Yunus have changed the way people see poverty alleviation by simply starting a small loans Bank to give micro loans to Women; today this has changed the lives of thousands of women and families in Bangladesh.

All these changes in society; be it in development, technology or businesses simply, find their core in one idea or the other.

Using the concept of leadership and looking at some of the most successful rulers who have shaped the world. They were not followed as leaders because people like the shape or color of their faces but rather because people liked the ideas behind their visions and that was how they built their followership be it good or bad.

When I imagine the influence of ideas in the world, I can as well imagine to what extent the absence of ideas would leave the world in perpetual state of stagnation and in the long run retrogression. Luckily that will never happen because idea creation is a core part of human existence.

In summary there is absolutely no limitation in the argument that ideas rule the world it is has been a constant and will continue to be a constant in the way human being do things.

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"Am now Curious to see how the Obama idea of "Hope and Change" will manifest in the lives of the Americans but non the less the ripple effect on the world...."

Thank You.