You spent years at university. Did they ever teach you anything about your personal economy? Yes, did they prepare you for your own economy? Most times, schools are designed to prepare us for WORK in companies and governments, because great schools are structured to provide a factor of production – the labour – which will power the production system in economies. In other words, the skills and capabilities schools teach, and impact on students, will mirror what companies and employers want.
And as they do that, you – the person – is not part of the core equation. Magically, you become great at growing companies and governments, but you are hardly ready for your own personal economy!
Good People, one of the greatest surprises when I started work was this: the university system prepared me on how to utilize resources, in different forms, to advance companies, but did a very poor job on how I could manage my own personal resources.
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In FUT Owerri, we studied great topics in Engineering Management like Engineer Turns Manager, Managerial Accounting, etc. In all those domains, everything was on how to optimize resources for the employer (yes, the company). But none for the village boy’s Personal Economy, a more important call. That is why at Tekedia Institute, we developed a module on Personal Economy. Yes, your economy and how you can build and own it.
And with hardwork, grace and luck, that Personal Economy can work even when the national economy or global economy is not firing on all cylinders. It is about strategy and planning. In the Igbo Nation, they give titles like “ome na unwu” [one who does great things even during famine and scarcity] which means that you can find abundance even when a national or global economy is challenged.
Watching the political ads, 2024 was like a year when America was falling from a cliff, but look deeper, America added a whopping new 562,000 millionaires! Saying it another way, growing a personal economy must not be tethered to the mood of the national economy as those 562k Americas collected!
On Monday, we will begin a process to build and deepen our personal economies via Tekedia Mini-MBA. I want to meet you in class here.
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