Mobicom's management has decided to adopt a different transformation philosophy. This philosophy is spiritual without being religiously prescriptive; it is revolutionary without being rebellious; it is contagious without being infectious; it is empowering without being overpowering; it is personal while at the same time it has the power to affect communities and anyone who chooses to involve themselves with this philosophy.
The effect of our adopted philosophy can be found at the core of each person who is involved with the Mobicom partnership. As a team, Mobicom and its partners are striving for the evolution of integrity and truth in their own hearts, by aligning with the teachings of God, and from there the Mobicom partners work to the outside, striving to bring light and to be bearers of hope in the world with business as their vehicle. Mobicom and its partners want to be part of the motion towards establishing ethical business.
Transformation does not happen in a vacuum. It is brought about by people who have tapped into a well of resolve and a sense of purpose deep and powerful enough to enable them to overcome the challenges that stand at its gates. Transformation begins when people realize that they have nothing to lose.
There are few people who are not concerned with the future at the moment. The world is caught in sudden uncertainty. We have to revise our sense of security and create a new balance. We have to take responsibility for our actions and also for our inaction. Everything that has brought us to this place is now in our hands. We have to reverse what looms ominously and convert threat into opportunity.
There are five basic questions that have lead us, as the Mobicom team, to our source of resolve and purpose. These are questions that every human being has to face at some point in his or her life. How we answer these questions will shape our decisions and determine our lifestyle. Finding the answers mark the difference between merely existing and really living; between stagnating like a swamp in the midlands of KZN or flowing like a mountain river in the rainy season next to the N1 through the Du Toitskloof just before Paarl. Our faith in the answers to these questions will inherently shape our future and also the future of those around us.
These questions are:
Is there a God?
Does God care?
Does God care for me?
Does God care about what I do?
What am I going to do about the answer?
The discussion following will not be about the factual and logical arguments that can and will be upheld by all reading this article. Every man and woman is entitled to his/her own opinions and his/her own journey. Mobicom believes there is a God, we believe God cares, we believe God cares for us and more importantly we believe that God cares about what we do! We have decided to build our lives and our business on learning to live truth and to do what we are called to do.
Our company strongly believes that transforming the marketplace has become a very urgent matter and a necessary thing to do in South Africa. The legacies created by the mercantilistic behaviour of all of our forefathers, as well as many of our current business and political leaders since Jan Van Riebeeck set foot on African soil, can be seen everywhere in our commercial as well as political landscape of 357 years. We have collectively created a web of political, economic and social dependency. This landscape and the mentality that we can not master the art of survival without known structures to create our wellbeing and wealth - caused many of us to become victims of circumstance.
Enough is enough, how much more suffering must our less affluent communities endure. Over the past decade there has been an uprise in humanitarian initiatives and an increase in awareness when it comes to caring for those in need. Still the need is big. For some it is almost impossible to break out of the poverty trap unless proper guidance can be provided. Too many people are still struggling to make an honest day's wage. How can we stand by and watch small local businesses be forced to close down so as to make space for big corporate shop fronts. Where is the heart in this? Do we care for money or do we care for each other?
As we all know the only constant in business is change. In order to improve the social climate of our communities, we as leaders of businesses and organizations need to have the skills to read the changes in the evolving demographics and we need to evolve and act accordingly. Peter Drucker stated in his landmark book “Management: Task, Responsibilities and Practices”, that the purpose of any business is to improve the social climate of the community, and any business that does not do so will become irrelevant and be forced to leave that community.
Ed Silvoso, best-selling author of “Anointed for Business” elaborates on the concept of transformation in his book titled “Transformation: Change the marketplace and you change the world”. He states that: “To see what we have never seen, we must do what we have never done, or else we will continue to see what we always see”. He further describes how actively inviting God back into the state of Hawaii transformed the state in 2004. The event was not about creating a new church institution or about one power structure overtaking another. The event was not about “selling God”, it was about honoring the fact that God's presence is already everywhere. The results speak for themselves. Crime and disciplinary referrals in school campuses decreased dramatically, teenage pregnancies dropped significantly and best of all, in many schools, campus drug dealers, who used to operate with impunity due to the complicity of students, were exposed and arrested. Median income rose from $53554 to $58112 in one year while the poverty rate descended from 10.6% to 9.8%. Corporate board meetings were opened by asking guidance from God on social and economic matters. This constitutes obvious validation that the acknowledge presence of God can heal areas where evil had been entrenched. It is the belief and the conviction of the management of Mobicom that nothing short from doing exactly the same in our communities will effect the change that we would like to see happening in our country. This conviction is supported by 2 Chronicles 7:14 where God promises: “If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”