Leaders’ Forum

To start with, I cannot thank enough everyone—who made the last week’s article “there are no traffic jams on the extra-mile” go viral through social media. You and I were able to get in touch with the length and breadth of our cherished and…

To start with, crisis is sometimes the only door to change. Philips Electronics learned this the hard way. A pioneering manufacturer for audio, video, and recording equipment, Philips was on top of the world in the early 1980s. Its…

It is both natural and necessary for young leaders to endeavor to prove themselves by doing everything themselves. It is natural because, as a leader, you want to set the pace even as you demonstrate that nothing is beneath you. It is…

I ended the first instalment of this high-profile and life-changing piece by saying that we hardly can grow on the condition that we do not experience the painful consequences of our poor character choices. There are growth-lessons that one…

As people go through life, many do not recognize and be on familiar terms with the consequences that result from their actions. It is easy to forget that the decisions we make today could forever change our lives, our families’ lives, and…

It is not a walk in the park to give birth to a business in this clime, because of many problems bedeviling our country. One of them is power-outage. This is one of the big reasons why many businesses die prematurely in Nigeria. To last in…

What I am passing on to you in this piece reminds me of a story told by Simon Sinek while flying to Florida some years back. Simon said, “How many souls on board? One hundred and twenty-six (126) souls, replied the pilot. The air traffic…

What is right is not always trendy and what is fashionable is not always right. Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? The truth is;…

We are in the era of promises in Nigeria. We are in the era of elections—when politicians, who are overly ambitious, make promises that they know they cannot keep. It is so effortless to promise than to fulfill it. The reason why it will…

Every so often, we choose to lead and sometimes we are hard-pressed into leadership. Whatever your state of affairs, your leadership skills will determine how successful you are going to become in leadership in the days to come. Booming…