BISI OLATILO : MEN WHO RAISED HISTORY CHANGING BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF IDEAS.

BISI OLATILO

If Dele Momodu pioneered the print version of the all picture, social and event diary on the continent. Bisis Olatilo pioneered the television version popularly known as the BISI OLATILO SHOW. The magic of Bisi Olatilo’s idea just as in Dele Momodu’s is that it did not only birth a business. It gave birth to an industry! 

Today, countless such shows grace television screens across the continent by people inspired by the Bisi Olatilo’s idea, effectively spawning a new industry and providing economic livelihood for thousands.

OTUNBA ‘GADAFFI’

Nigeria’s urban centres (particularly Lagos) like urban centres in many third world countries lack adequate public toilets. Answering the call of nature was a nightmare for many individuals and the attendant challenge of public sanitary health was a nightmare for governments. That was until the late Otunba Gadaffi gave Nigeria a gift of Mobile Public Toilets. Today, his mobile public toilets are ubiquitous in public places, social events grounds, religious or political gatherings etc, around the country particularly it’s most populated city, Lagos. While solving a major challenge that politicians and administrators were hitherto unable to solve, he also clearly solved his own personal economic issues by building a massive business and factory around his revolutionary idea – D. M. T. Mobile Toilets.

HENRY FORD

At age 40, Henry Ford was still an ordinary factory hand who earned daily wages. But the power of idea not only changed his life but also changed the world forever. Henry Ford did not like the reality of the automobile of his days. He did not like the fact that only a few super rich could afford a car. 

Henry Ford’s great contribution to the automobile industry and by extension the entire manufacturing industry as a whole was his idea of mass manufacturing through an industrial assembly line that makes cars and other products today easily affordable to the average middle class family around the world. Thus the modern assembly line where different persons added different pre-fabricated parts to the car as it passed through the assembly line was born.
Ford also introduced the unthinkable idea in his days of giving workers two days off every week. 

Prior to Ford’s radical idea, workers only took one day – Sundays off. But Ford believed workers will be more productive if they had two days off. That was the beginning of what workers enjoy today; having Saturdays and Sundays off. This idea has not only multiplied productivity globally, it has also made life better for over a billion people all over the world.