Develop Your Ideas: Practical Steps for Developing Ideas and Strategies for Success

By Godfrey Masanga

This idea manual is suitable for those who want to venture into a business, to expand or grow a business, to develop different types of ideas, and to fulfil their life purpose, but don't know how to start.

This book is for those who require not only to be ignited but need practical simple steps to move forward.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publiseer Publishing
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018

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What Ideas Are You Hoarding?

This book ignites and gives you practical simple steps to leave a mark or influence on the world by giving the best of yourself out of love. Let’s look at all the great men such as Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton to name a few and their impact on space travel, communication and technology in general. Yes we need to protect our ideas but in reality those who have really changed the world have allowed their ideas to outlive them and to extend them beyond the grave. What ideas are you hoarding and what would you want to be remembered for? Dare to unleash and bring to the world only you and only you can contribute to make the world a better place.

The Greatest Tragedy in Life

The only reason why you and I are still alive is to make a cumulative contribution to our world and society by fulfilling our destiny. Jonah in the bible was swallowed by a whale and survived for three days in the whale's belly for no other reason he still had a mission, a destiny and a purpose to fulfil. There are many tragedies that did not become fatal for most of us simply because we are yet to unleash our destinies. The greatest tragedy in life is not a motorcar accident or any catastrophes' we might have seen or think of but the greatest tragedy in life is to be alive and not know why, to be alive and not be fulfilling your dreams, your ideas, your purpose, your destiny, what a TRAGEDY! Fulfill your ideas NOW!

It was through long discussions with a close associate of mine, Clement Mtembo and the much needed guidance and support from Mr. Pattison Sithole (Group C.E.O ZSR). We were thinking of how ideas grow, how to develop ideas, what ideas need to grow, whether we can buy and sell ideas and in fact we ended up registering a company IDEAS BASKET INTERNATIONAL The Ideas Company. This proved to be quite a mouthful after spending more than 8 months in consultations with lawyers, patent offices, research on the internet. Yes ideas can be sold, in fact business, marketing, selling anything has to do with ideas.

We wanted a platform, a forum, a virtual basket, a legal entity that incorporated ideas from the layman level, those at the shop floor level or those at the reception where the ideas are captured and could then merge them with the managers, the financiers and those with access to resources. This proved to be quite a mammoth task since Zimbabwe and Africa in general didn't seem to be ready at the time to embrace such changes.

A basket or platform whereby people would not have to die without leaving their thoughts or ideas, perhaps with immediate compensation or for the generation to come. This platform being based on one basic principle that there are those with enough resources (IFH - Idea Financial Holders) and yet not necessarily enough time to scout for enough ideas Intellectual (Property) to invest in and it follows that there are those with enough ideas (IVH - Idea Value Holders) and not necessarily enough resources to translate their ideas to reality.

This company would be a mediator through linkages with captains in industry, through its pool of qualified personnel, academia, and the ordinary man and would act as a giant idea incubator, because no idea is too small or too big!

This proofed to be quite a mammoth as the company seemed to have come way beyond its time. The field of Motivation itself hadn't gained popularity. One of its arms included motivation to solicit for ideas Ideation (Idea Creation) and Transfer and, Licensing.

The ideas behind the creation of the company and the tools for tapping into ideas are embodied in this book. The aim here is to create a WHY NOT mindset in the majority of Zimbabweans and Africans and not to accept the BECAUSE mediocre mindset of not transforming ideas for economic gain whilst waiting for some foreign based solutions when it is high time we release our own ideas, concepts and ways of doing things.

The research carried out, the tools and methods used are now unveiled in this manual to help you unlock or develop whatever idea you are embarking on.