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True Leaders Value Loyalty - 03-04-2018 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Purpose In Leadership - 27-03-2018 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Leadership In Africa 4 - 22-08-2017 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Leadership In Africa 3 - 15-08-2017 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Leadership In Africa 2 - 08-08-2017 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Leadership In Africa - 01-08-2017 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Leadership Styles - 25-07-2017 by Olajumoke Adenowo

Corruption is not a Nigerian problem. Right now it has become a global problem. I am not one of those who say the worst thing about their country, because believe it or not, things are not as bad as you think they are in Nigeria. If you think they are bad then perhaps you can take a cue from my son, who took me straight to the economic index on Nigeria and showed me how exponentially our foreign reserves are rising. A young teenager told me it is rising exponentially; we have no reason to disbelieve these figures. What is means is that, like it or not either your marginal or sectional interests are being covered by this political dispensation or not, some things are getting better. There are different types of corruption, you will know when you face corruption, but unilateral corruption is different from transactional corruption, which is different from extortive or coercive corruption, or collaborative or collusive corruption, which differs from grand or petty corruption, and you wonder where I am going? It

There are different types of corruption, you will know when you face corruption, but unilateral corruption is different from transactional corruption, which is different from extortive or coercive corruption, or collaborative or collusive corruption, which differs from grand or petty corruption, and you wonder where I am going? It makes a difference what kind of corruption is endemic in your society and that which you are facing.

Corruption 2 - 29-05-2018 by Olajumoke Adenowo

The month of March is fast drawing to a close. That means the first quarter of the year is about to end. 2018 is moving forward at lightning speed, and for some of us we already are getting tired, because we think; this is the time some begin to realize, that the New Year’s resolutions have taken a tumble. You planned to go to the gym, every single day, but you haven’t quite made it have you? Truly we all get discouraged, we get tired, maybe at the end of a quarter may be midyear, lost when the ‘ember’ months come, you just think there are some things you should have achieved, that have not been achieved. What then keeps you going, some try and buy a new car, some try and buy new clothes, retail therapy, some drink. What keeps me going? Will you allow me to share it with you? What keeps me going is purpose, impact, knowing that something I would do that day would make a difference in the life of another individual, the smile on your face when I am really depressed, and sometimes it happens. Somebody defraud

What would purpose do for you? What is great about a new year? A new year is a chance to start afresh, a chance to measure what has passed and to put a closure, a tight lead on what has gone behind. A new year helps us mentally to put a close to the mistakes of the past year, not only the mistakes though, even the successes of the last year. You know the greatest enemy of success is your last success. It’s a New Year and many people are already their New Year resolutions again, it’s not bad, I believe that of course you must have goals. Where I have a problem is where people’s goals are independent of their purpose, independent of what they really believe in, and are all about maybe peer pressure, people’s expectation, the state of the economy, the political state of the country, the circumstances that surround them. A wise man once said “what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us, are mere trifling matters compared to what lies inside of us.” You can probably survive the good times without purpose, but yo

We are not at war and there are no natural disasters, but we still keep counting the dead in Nigeria. It bothers me that we have no value for human life. I believe that every human being has a spark of the divine within them; they have the imprint of God. There is no human being who has the right to cut short the life of another human being. Unfortunately, we’ve had a series of crises with alleged Fulani herdsmen, alleged because nobody carries an identification card, and we cannot say indeed who these people are. They are not settlers in the community, they are people who rove. The crises that just occurred in Benue state where at the most conservative count, 73 human beings died. It is just a tip of the iceberg; it’s been on, in Adamawa, in the South-East, various parts of Nigeria. I don’t know what it is about Benue that just hit the public consciousness in Nigeria, so poignantly so strongly. I think it is just the last straw that is breaking the camel’s back. We are all Nigerians, first and foremost hu

Happy new year to all our listeners in voice of change Let us look to this year as the year in which we decide to be part of the solution. Fighting corruption in this great country Nigeria. We can change our image, but Nigeria is not just for one person. It starts with me and you. This year we must say no to corruption, you would not be part of the problem, be part of the solution. Realize that we cannot complain about corruption, we cannot point fingers if we are not doing anything to stop corruption. At the next checkpoint do not put hundred naira in your driving license. At least that is within your power. Make sure that driving license is up to date and correct. Let us do things right so we can confidently fight corruption

Do you know that the average Nigerian does not demand good leadership? No, we don’t, when we say someone is a bad leader, we mean is that his leadership has not pay us personally, that’s all. The minute the man or the woman settles us it no longer matters that he has ignored the healthcare system, education, corruption is rife. No matter what, once he takes care of us personally, we are okay. This appals me, it gives me grief, how does anybody take even five thousand dollars in an envelope at election time, and you are settled for four years? How long does it take to spend five thousand dollars? I can hear a listener say “try me with it first” how much is five thousand naira? Right now it is two million naira, God forbid that you get ill, you will spend the two million in one hospital visit. Is it not much better for us to throw this five thousand dollars back at the corrupt politicians and ask him where he got it from, and say “why don’t you give us a good healthcare system?” Five thousand dollars is not eno

The thinking that sets a leader apart. It is very important that in this generation you be set apart, why? There’s information everywhere, the mundane is everywhere, so the information I would need, a whole library of encyclopedias to access 30 years ago, I can now get at the touch of a button, is this good or bad? It’s good in that for those who really are diligent, they can press in and get the information they need; it’s bad in that everybody has access to the same thing. You know where the difference lies, diamonds are not gotten on the surface of the earth, you dig deep, so you just cannot with a click on the internet get a paradigm shifting, revolutionary, value adding idea. The beauty of technology is that when you do get it, you have the means like never before to disseminate it to the entire connected world.

To rise above the crowd, you must be a leader and there are 3 spheres of obvious leadership. These days, to be a highly skilled worker or employee where you know you are just better than everybody else and your boss knows it, you’re the one given the opportunities and the challenging tasks and the rewards or you are a superstar and I’m not talking about the famous –for-being-media famous types who rise like meteorites and in a flash they are gone, because they really contribute nothing. Those are entertainers, not superstars. When we talk about superstars, we’re talking about legends in their fields. Whatever field it may be or you’re an owner of your patent, your idea, your proprietary or intellectual property, you are a leader and it’s a thinking of a leader that separates a leader from the rest of the pack.

It's been an interesting time in my country which is Nigeria in the last few weeks, a governor took upon himself, not the first time but he just happens to be one that's very media attractive should i say a media attractive governor decided to run a test for teachers to find out if they were capable of actually teaching. Like I said, it's not the first time it's been done, it was done in Ekiti state, it created a lot of problems for the governor why, because teachers form a huge chunk of the civil service and the civil service do vote and when this tests were administered in Ekiti state and in Kaduna state as you know recently, quite a few teachers did not pass now for some reasons, there was protest and as someone who is a product of the Educational system in Nigeria when the educational was world class, i felt sad, i don't know the politics of it, some say it was a tool of persecution, let's forget the politics, let's just focus on teachers being competent enough to teach.

Vision is the ability to see the future beforehand. And purpose Is our reason for being, why we’re here -our assignment. Myles Munroe defines leadership as the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by a passion generated by a vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose. So we see that purpose is the ignition for leadership. It’s the reason for leadership, purpose has a conviction. Purpose creates a passion; purpose is what generates a vision. Vision is one of the most critical factors to leadership and you cannot give what you don’t have. This is why we all must have a personal vision. Also without a personal vision, you don’t know if the vision of the leader is taking you to your preferred destination, and your vision is designed around your purpose.

We discuss leadership on voice of change because we were all born to be leaders. We may not feel like we were born to be leaders, we may not feel like the seed of leadership is in us at all, but everyone of us is a leader in one sphere of life or another , or at one time in life or another. You look at yourself and wonder, me, a leader? Who is a leader? A leader is someone who can mobilize people, resources, material resources, financial resources, goodwill, favor towards achieving a stated objective. So you see that even if you just organize traffic at a point, at that point you are being a leader. So many people that you have obeyed in traffic, you never even ask “who asked him to get on the road and begin to direct traffic?” but you obey without question. Why? He put himself forward at that time and volunteered his services to make sure chaos was averted. He stepped forward at that time, that was his time of leadership.