Avoiding leadership pitfalls~Prince Eze Ugochukwu.
Nowadays, any average voter could be offended by the sight of increasing suffering of our masses.
Indeed many of our people no longer trust our leaders. Most often, those in office commit various atrocious misdeeds and mischiefs and abuse of power.
How can we dictate early enough and stop in the tracks this type of poor leadership. What are the yardsticks, the barometer to use to gauge good leaders. We cannot continue to cry and remain helpless as our generation gradually fades away.
Society has been arrested by men without soul. By insatiable monsters who feast on the commonwealth of the people for themselves and their families. They hide under different disguises to perpetrate evil against humanity. They look clean outside, while they are very rotten inside.
Why do our leaders fail most often. What brings about the failure of a person once regarded as a messiah.?
Lets look at the under-listed points of failure:
1. Personal Interest.
2. Egoism.
3. Limited knowledge/ know-how.
4. Pressure.
5. Character weekness.
6. Poor Communication.
7. Inexperience.
People in public office fail due to the manifestation of the above listed traits. The above inhibitive factors leads to the inability to unleash both the human and natural resources and endowments of our people.
Going forward, care must be taken to identify hard working, skilled and visionary person(s) to lead our people.
Winning office for personal deal-making and racketeering is not good enough.
There are certain virtues to look for in men who has governed well. Be it Mandela, Lee Kwan Yew, John F. Kennedy, etc.
These men took their people to new levels of freedom, accomplishments, achievements, and emancipation.
They brought to bear:
1. Consensus Building.
2. Inclusiveness and participation.
3. Strength & Effectiveness.
4. Equity.
5. Vision.
6. Fear of God.
7. Boldness and Fearlessness.
8. Humane & Humility.
9. Impactation.
Therefore to look for a good leader, we should look for individuals equipped with the above gifts, and there are a good number of them.
One area that we ignore is the failure of the business class to partner with politicians in looking for and identifying great leaders.
In most cases, persons of vision and versatility cannot emerge to lead due to paucity of funds. This is an area where the private sector players can assist in pushing forward this visioners through funding for the general good of society. Afterall good governance means good business.
Our society is in serious trouble. We cannot meet the needs of the citizenry. Misuse of public funds for private gain is the order of the day.
If truly we have stakeholders and opinion molders, although very difficult to do, nevertheless it is not beyond achievability to identify men and women of goodwill who will occupy public office and deliver prosperity to our people.
Prince Eze Ugochukwu.
