INGREDIENTS OF SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP- PART ONE By Adam Abubakar and Leonard Mudanghu

A great leader’s courage to influence his vision come from passion
not position – Dr. John C Maxwell

A Leader is best when people know he barely exists, when his work is
done, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves.-Lao Tsu.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader

 – John Quincy Adams

Leaders are the people that are the core center of any institution from a small family to large corporations. In each and every institution there are leaders. When we talk about leaders we do not only mean political leaders. But as mentioned earlier, from a family to large corporations there are leaders and they are the managers and elites in the society. In each and every institution, there are managers who run this institution and the success and failure of the institutions depends on the kind of leaders that run them. It is their responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly, effectively and successfully.

A leader should take responsibility and not make excuses because leadership is about doing the right things and the capacity to translate mission and vision into reality. Leaders are born we agree with this school of thought that some people are born leaders. However we are also of those people who still believe that leadership can also be inputted into someone's life successfully by training. You can train some today and he/she can become a great leader tomorrow.

Africa is a great example of how bad leadership affects the development of a nation. For so many years, we have been captive to bad leadership. Africa is a great continent blessed with a lot of resources and talents. But because the managers of these resources, the leaders, have failed in their responsibilities, Africa is far behind it’s contemporaries in other continents of the world. Africans are living in situation of hopelessness, poverty and disease as a result of bad leadership.

The biggest challenge confronting Africa however is how to get good and effective leadership. In these series of articles we shall be taken our readers on a journey to ingredients of successful leadership. We shall take you on this journey because it is our belief that only when we have good, well trained and focus leaders can Africa develop and achieve its dreams.

To be continued………………