October, 2022
In the first two years of joining M&M Financial Services company, Fred, twenty-four, still feels unsure where his career is headed.
Post-training school, he started out with the Audit and Investigation Unit, and it appeared he was heading for an Auditor’s future. However, six months later, he was “temporarily” posted to HR to cover for a manpower gap. Weeks became months, and he was already seeing a future in HR.
Kathrine, a middle-aged Project Manager with her company, has had it with her Line Manager, Kola. On this afternoon, after being summoned by the Head of Legal regarding a project she is managing, she busted at Kola, “you don’t listen to me. You don’t even try to hear what I think. We could have avoided all these issues with Legal, if you only listened to what I was saying last week…” Her face was dripping sweat, her arms were shaking, her eyes were almost given to tears…
In 2001, the concept of “Mars Oasis” was conceived by Elon Musk. This was the foundation of his, now popular, colonization of Mars, and making humanity a multiplanetary specie dream.
In 2015, the world gathered to the lying-in-state of the great leader of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. The air was dampened with the tears of Singaporeans, as their founding father was being mourned; a week-long event.
The air was tensed. The night was cold. America was on the edge of the union’s cliff as the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, was shot in the head at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. The next morning, 15th April, 1865, 7:22am, he was pronounced dead.
Every great leader knows, that being great in leadership begins by leading oneself.
In his presidential inaugural speech, he dropped those famous lines “Ask not what your country will do for you, but what you will do for your country”, spiralling an age of radical advancement. With a persuasive oratory prowess, forty-three-year-old President John F. Kennedy was challenging every sphere of the American mind.
The business of leadership is normally a tough one. However, for women in many parts of the world, leadership is both tough and rough. Women have had to face a lot of resistance in their journey to lead their teams or their organizations.
Leaders all over the world have been saddled with the responsibility of communicating the vision and destination to their followers and audience. Often with poise and a measured sense of persuasion, many have gained the following of thousands.
It is common knowledge among successful leaders that every valuable venture will take time. In fact, it is believed that the rule of thumb for checking valuable investments, is looking into their long-term sustainability plan. This method of investing, is called Value-Investing. It was pioneered by Benjamin Graham, and is the leading investment strategy of renowned investor, Warren Edward Buffet.
Thank you Ngozi.