Voice Of Change, Nigeria

We are concerned about how to broaden our influence, how to make sure that our influence is strengthened, that we become the leaders that we are meant to be. It has been said that if you think you are leading and nobody is following, you are just going for a walk. A lot of us are just going for a walk, because we have no influence, there’s nobody following us. We have a high title in the office and people just listen because they are forced to listen. We ourselves feel the tension, the uphill struggle it is, to make people do what we want them to do. There is a better way; you can actually make people want to do what you want them to do. This is what influence is, when people really, really want to do what you want them to do. You are no longer threatening them with appraisals; you are not kicking them and screaming at them. They willingly volunteer to do your will.

Suicide in this African society has been on the increase in recent times, some people blame the economy, they say it has affected the family ties, everybody is struggling for themselves. But does depression affect leaders differently? Does it affect the people at the top differently? What is depression? What is it not? This is something that affects a lot of leaders but they don’t like to talk about it. Leaders and leaders to be, leadership is lonely, it is lonely at the top, it is only when only you can see the vision and nobody else can. It is lonely because really exemplary leaders invest themselves, their very being, everything they have into the vision. Sometimes they even lose their families in the process. Mandela lost his family, not just his wife, his close immediate family. He was lonely, he married again, too late to start all over. He had paid the ultimate price and it was not just him. Would it have been easy for Mahatma Gandhi to have been in an ashram in a loincloth? Maybe that was not his fir

We live in an era where nations are actually been created. The Soviet Union broke up, while Eritrea, Southern Sudan, , and so many that never used to exist all of a sudden are in existence. Some are thriving and some are failing and what makes the difference? These are some of the things we’re looking at. Common history, A history that unites and does not divide, common enemies, common values, and common vision is the foundation of a people deciding to move together and be one. You might say that African countries are not nations, because we were colonized and forced to come together , but so was Singapore. Colonized , Ethnic Malays, Ethnic Chinese, a mixture. Religion mixed, some are Muslims, some are Confucianists, they are not homogenous. Some are forced together but they make it work. And some are forced together and they keep harping back to a past that is precolonial. That predates when they were forced to be together and they would not move forward with common values, with a common vision.

VOC is a radio broadcast dedicated to unleashing the transformational leader in you. VOC teaches us to ask the right questions from those who offer themselves to lead us and discern between the legitimate leaders and the impostors who seek to serve none but themselves. We seek to birth a national renaissance through the new breed of Nigerian Leaders.

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