Transforming Namibia’s Human Resource Toward Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development: Lessons for Managers, and Those Engaged in Education, Training and Business Services

Abstract

This paper explores the creative urge (CU) that transforms hominids from the notional view as human resource to the fully functional state of contributing human assets. Its aim is to build understanding of the creative energy that is embedded in all of us – in our cells and our individuality. Mostly latent, this capacity goes often misunderstood, unrecognized or is under-utilized in the average person. Those that realize this innate potential within them recognize also the value and power of the intuition which, when discovered, plants labels on us as “geniuses, creators, artists, leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs”. Those that do not realize this potential, are left to fallow in the perpetual rat race, as followers and hewers for others. In this presentation, I have tried to model and show the explicit and implicit relationships between empirical evidence of CU and its various sources and to characterize common traits that are shared by innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders. To appreciate the phenomenomics, the paper explores the various ways in which we inherit, acquire and inculcate our individual traits, and how, with this new insight, we can mould and transform them into our characters, skillsets, talents, intellect, intelligence, and how they do transmogrify our values as individuals, family, and collectively, as communities, tribes and nations. Among other things, the paper explains how the creative urge (in us) kindles our attributes, directs the several paths we use to uncover, enhance, advance and activate the entrepreneurial attributes that are stored or trapped mechanically in our subconscious mind. How we connect our physical and metaphysical sensors with the intuition and, more importantly, how we can valorise the human mind to its highest creative potential. Illustrating mentally and graphically, the paper presents a value assessment of the intuition and its pervading role and enlightening influence on our creativity, insight and intellect, and how we can use such influences to re)construct mental and physical prototypes for production, services, for economy and the structures and visions that we use to drive and sustain public and corporate policy. In summary, this exposé provides insight into valuable techniques we may use to ignite and create our own development models to raise ourselves as innovators, entrepreneurs, and collectively as firms and nations. Lastly, the paper explains the pervasive influences of directed education and training on entrepreneurs; and the links between environment, anthropology, culture and social constructs we make to engage with or alter the course of nature and our natural destiny. It opines a sort of blueprint to build up our perceptive skills and insights to enable and amplify our capacities as individuals for innovation, creativity and entrepreneuring. Finally, we should be able to recognize the creative urge that is responsible for the source of energy we are and embody.