Seven Steps to Great Leadership
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This book captures the necessary steps that will aid our journey to great leadership. With critical and graphic illustrations, it defines and explains the concept of leadership such that everyone can easily relate with it. According to the book, a leader is the person who occupies the driver seat of a vehicle keeping it in motion and setting the right direction. Therefore, a leader must be able to harness the skills of other members in the corporation in keeping the corporation in motion and getting momentum for the right direction. The author defines leadership as "the ability to use the talents, times and treasures of others to achieve an organizational goal without destroying the peoples’ (followers) capacity for self-actualization, self-realization and self-fulfillment".
From the definition, a leader does not destroy the capacity of others while he galvanizes them towards the pursuit of either personal or corporate goal.
The concept of great leadership here reflects in the definition above. You will become a great leader when you motivate and direct others towards a set goal, paying special attention to their strengths and weaknesses while deploying them to appropriate places within the corporation without destroying their capacity to realize themselves. In other words, a great leader recognizes the needs and the aspirations of the followers. He gives freedom coupled with responsibility. He permits them to be creative and innovative while trying to realize the organizational goal within the purview of the core values of the corporation.
Having laid this theoretical and pragmatic foundation, this book reveals the 7 steps that would bring us to the path of great leadership.
Godwyns Ade' Agbude, Ph.D, Sr
GODWYNS ADE' AGBUDE, Sr., Ph.DGodwyns A. Agbude is the Founder/Executive President of GAMI INC. He is a preacher, leadership trainer/consultant, social entrepreneur, author, script writer and astute Film Director/Producer. He is the CEO of Godwyns Agbude Studios and the host of LEADERSHIP CLINIC on Radio. He is also the Executive Director of CHARIS CENTER OF LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. With a PhD in Political Science, he teaches in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State. He has over 20 research papers accredited to him both in local and international journals and books. He is the author of Negotiating Your way to Greatness, Encountering Leadership and Praying without Tears among several others. Happily married to Joy; they are blessed with a son – Daniel Adeboye.
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Seven Steps to Great Leadership - Godwyns Ade' Agbude, Ph.D, Sr
GODWYNS ADE’ AGBUDE Sr., PhD
Seven Steps to Great Leadership
Seven steps to Great Leadership
Godwysn Ade’ Agbude, Sr., Ph.D
Copyright 2014 by Godwyns Ade’ Agbude, Sr., Ph.D
Smashwords Edition
INTRODUCTION
INVITATION TO GREAT LEADERSHIP
The field of leadership has indeed been flooded with lots of research materials. Though this is a truism, we cannot stop discussing this, given the central place of leadership in human existence. The first thing that re-directed my focus to leadership is the popular statement derived from a verse in the Holy Bible. It says "Smite the shepherd, then the sheep will scatter’. In other words, once leadership is off the way, followership becomes a problem. This statement validates the central place of the leader in galvanizing any organization – spiritual or secular – and nation to greatness. The greatness of an organization or a nation-state is a product of the quality of its leadership. This impresses on my mind the value that any society or corporation should place on the kind of human beings that sit in the driver’s seat.
I’ll draw an analogy between an organization and a bus or vehicle. I want to believe that no corporation or country was created to be stagnant. The quest of everyone is to move towards something good (a kind of progress) whether he knows it or not. In the same vein, nobody gets into a vehicle or traveler’s bus with the intention of just being stationary. I believe mobility is one of the inherit quests of man. A vehicle is not a place where you dress up and go to sit. When you board a vehicle, you expect a kind of motion towards a given or desired destination. In the same vein, when a person joins a corporation, he expects a kind of mobility – a sense of achievement whether personal or corporate. One of the most traumatic events in the life of a man therefore would be to board a vehicle whose direction is either unknown or the vehicle is immobile.
A leader is therefore the person who occupies the driver seat of the vehicle keeping it in motion and setting the right direction. But we must note that the leader must be able to harness the skills of other members in the corporation in keeping the corporation in motion and getting momentum for the right direction.
I will at this point now offer my definition of leadership thus: Leadership is the ability to use the talents, times and treasures of others to achieve an organizational goal without destroying the peoples’ capacity for self-actualization, self-realization and self-fulfillment. Perhaps, this definition focuses on top leadership, it is nonetheless deliberate. From the definition, a leader does not destroy the capacity of others while he galvanizes them towards the pursuit of either personal or corporate goal. The concept of great leadership here reflects in the definition above. You will become a great leader when you motivate and direct others towards a set goal, paying special attention to their strengths and weaknesses while deploying them to appropriate places within the corporation without destroying their capacity to realize themselves. In other words, a great leader recognizes the needs and the aspirations of the followers.
He gives freedom coupled with responsibility. He permits them to be creative and innovative while trying to realize the organizational goal within the purview of the core values of the corporation. He does not try to re-create himself in them. He allows them to be themselves in pursuing the set goal. As Myles