In your journey to be a great leader, friend, you must be decisive. Decisions must be made, and some are thoroughly inconvenient, and roundly ambitious.

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In his book, The Burden of Command, J.B. Edwards described the mindset leaders must posses in other to remain effective as they assume an office. He went on to describe five “Burdens” leaders must concern themselves with. Self-awareness, Competence, Servanthood, Communication and Management. There is no mention of ill will.

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In the 2007 movie, Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell, the world learned the beautiful story of the Woodrow Wilson High School kids who turned their lives around by writing their stories; a story that is more about faith than of writing.

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Thinking about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, the first thing that jumps at you is the record of his courage. Not just the courage to march in protest in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, nor Birmingham Alabama, nor on the streets of Washington. But the full scale of courage–in thought, in speech, in action.

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He was born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, but became popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, a title which meant “Venerable Gandhi”. To discuss leadership without as much as a mention of him, is unacceptable.

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Farmers understand that the underlying principle standing between seed-time and harvest-time, is growth time. However, concerted the seed-time may be, nothing will be harvested if growth did not happen.

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Long before my work life, I resented failure. I avoided any contest that spells failure for me. I would rather be absent than fail for whatever reason. I felt that failing was a statement to my person.

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In 2014, I was on a personal project that required me to interview High-End personalities in Nigeria. One of the sessions I won’t forget was with Prof. Osita Ogbu. While sharing key life lessons with me and my team, Prof. told us one of his guiding principles: Everything matters.

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In 2008, as a first-year student of Zoology in UNN, I attended the 40th Inaugural Lecture of the University. It was delivered by Prof. Charles Soludo, who, at the time, was the Central Bank Governor.

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If the graph of workplace motivation is drawn, one will see the multiple undulation that characterize our lives. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. But there are those days that you’re simply at the bottom of the barrel.

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