The Value of a Leader as a Servant

By Kennedy Onyango Adongo

The noble plan acts of grace, and their value secure peace. Kennedy Onyango Adongo is a noble man, but also a practical one. He got involved in leadership as a child, and from that day he became proactive and active in working for clear change. What is extraordinary is his service in humble reverence to shift value.

Our relationship is symbiotic because our interests align at some point. This book is refining leadership by selfless service, duty, grace and loyalty in the economic viability, social justice and ecological sustainability.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781728376653

Kennedy Onyango Adongo

That which is rare has value. Kennedy Onyango Adongo is a Kenyan economist, diplomat and educationist. My Masters Degree in International Studies from the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies at the University of Nairobi, Bachelors Degree in Education from Moi University, and North-South, South-South and Triangular Cooperation experience are infinite in value. The diversity of my Luo, Kalenjin, Kisii, Kikuyu and Luhya ancestral heritage adds to my Ecosystem and Systems Thinking Approach, offerings and accomplishments in Swahili, English and French, both on the sustainability of economic growth and pursuit of global environmental sustainability plane.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1   Duty

Chapter 2   Grace

Chapter 3   Loyalty

Chapter 4   Nobility

Chapter 5   Humility

Chapter 6   Legacy

Closing

FOREWORD

The value of a leader is to address the economic viability, social justice and ecological sustainability tasks. Today, we face increasing gender, climate, wealth, digital, peace and generational divides.

The value of a leader as a servant agenda reinforces trust, strengthens democracy, facilitates economic development, furthers equality, and reduces poverty, corruption, environmental crisis and social division.

A servant leader adopts new policies for economic ethic, respect for the nature and justice for the future generations. Servant leaders unite with humility and empathy to the service of humanity and nature, focusing on communications, ocean territory and resources within them, security space and sovereignty.

A servant leader is one who believes in the economic political autonomy and self-reliance, whose outlook is attracting new skills, talents and innovation, from people diplomacy, technical diplomacy, and economic diplomacy to trade diplomacy, prepared in bilateral, regional international and multilateral organizations.

It is fitting that this book may inspire us to progress together into community models, spreading care, loyalty, and obedience to every human and nature. As it is, the value you give is your legacy.

A leader as a servant offers integrated solutions to innovation, creative industry, leadership, mobility, and entrepreneurship by value services in a self-sufficient, self-nurturing, and self-propagating.

By reading this book, we enhance our power and reinvent our brand standards to deal with changing cultural issues in conserving forests and government issues in empowering communities.

Fundamentally, environmental, social, governance, and economic actions inside are either adaptations to existing contexts or disruptions that transform the very ecosystem of human or natural development.

As a milestone, this book represents negotiated methods, careful assessment of personal constructs, collaborating societies, highly developed intelligence system, brilliance in the organization, dealing as equals, and modernizing tendencies where men in history who rise from the lowest stratum of the society to positions of greatness and then live in sustainable substance and style as they build capacity to transfer policy knowledge and practice on youth leadership in science, health, gender and education programmes that advance teaching, learning and research in specific regions contributing to equitable investment in the next generation as young leaders - expressed confidence in the long-term agenda, policies and outlook for environment, economic, social and governance, pinning my hope on the local value and global vision for the rising geopolitical tension, climate change and rocketing global inflation by offering tax cuts to smaller business, expanding domestic demand and cultivating high value-added industries through pragmatic, nimble and adaptive leadership from state-owned enterprises, technology, private firms, scholars, politics, policies and civil society to governance solutions to cutting global carbon emissions.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As the Chair of the STRATEGIC COMMITTEE, I acknowledge engineer John Kisenga and Dr. Robert Ayisi, who preceded me in setting up the university governance structures, programs and functions, and mechanisms and policies to ensure the continuity of local government ministries and private companies. John helped the university to secure enterprise resource planning system from cybercrime. Robert led the ground breaking of the Design, Materials and Manufacturing (DMM) hub site ceremony presided over by the Principal Secretary, State Department for University Education and Research, Ambassador Simon Nabukwesi, who aided innovative revenue streams such as solar panels and construction of water pans for schools. Caleb Ogot is a tiller on the corporate strategic planning, who value dignity, equality and unity.

As a member of the FINANCE COMMITTEE, I acknowledge chair Raphael Anampiu, Dr. Roselida Owuour, Kennedy Nyanchiro, Joseph Kiarii, and James Kiburi In fast-tracking revolution of sound management of public services, poverty reduction, wellbeing of citizens and governance in developing countries. Raphael is an astute leader when it comes to the University portfolio development, wages and pensions solutions, as well as refugees’ investment capital, insurance, guarantee and equity management. Roselida does not just like molecular biology, but led in the establishment of Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kenya-AIST) as a Constituent College of Dedan Kimathi University of Technology. Nyanchiro led the negotiation with the Hungarian government that resulted into 55 billion Kenya Shillings DeKUT Cancer Centre. Kiarii worked extra hours to enhance the peace and economic solvency of the university. Kiburi is a leader with ironclad 5-100 year plan to transform markets, ministries, courts, institutions and businesses by bolstering public financial management, policy development and investment facilitation.

As a member of the HUMAN RESOURCE COMMITTEE, I acknowledge chair Professor Ambassador Ruthie Rono for better performance management, professional development and succession planning of DeKUT. Professor Esther Magiri, the DeKUT Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration and Finance, for increasing fiscal discipline, financial stability and investor confidence in the DeKUT’s and Kenya’s economic future.

As a member of the SEALING COMMITTEE, I acknowledge council chairman Dr. Jane Nyakang’o, for lease [bio-sources, agri-tech, ICT], certificate sealing, and the social and environmental safeguards policies for the local and global indigenous communities. Strategically, economically and diplomatically, we led in negotiation and vetting of Performance Contract, for and on behalf of Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, with the Ministry of Education, for and on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Kenya.

As an in attendance AUDIT, RISK, and COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE member, I acknowledge chair Dr. Janet Kabeberi Macharia for the adaptive risk and governance framework. A leader with a gender eye on girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Because of leaders like Janet and Dr Sidy Ndao, Sela Kasepa rose from a Zambia’s remote Kitwe village, won a scholarship at Harvard University in 2016, won Queen Elizabeth’s Young Queen’s Award in 2018, got a job as a software engineer for Bill Gates at Microsoft, conquered the world of science and robotics, and promotes technological advancement through the Zambia’s first robotics team which she founded during her freshman year of college.

As a DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE member, I acknowledge university council secretariat: Nelius Mwangi, Patrick Gitonga, Esther Kareithi, Irene Kiarie, Agnes Gachoki, and John Rukoyah, for the concrete, precise, accurate and appropriate timing in preparation of opinions and interpretation of the Charter and statutes.

As a member of the NATIONAL PROJECT TEAM, I acknowledge Professor Jean Bosco for the preparation of policy analyses, formulation and contributions to stir the country’s industrial and economic growth.

DEDICATION

First, I dedicate this book to Millicent Akinyi Ondiek, my matrimonial aunt, who, despite her disability, was a high-profile corporate leader. She taught us during school holidays when we visited her in Homa-Bay town that house servants deserve dignity, equality, and unity. She taught us to value and serve them more than they did to us. It is good to improve their skills and promote them with a decent salary when they have acquired the necessary skills. She is the one who would take a house servant to a sales and marketing college with her own money, paid her full salary while in school, and employed her as a marketing strategist in her computer shop. Yes, this is a classic example of the value of a leader as a servant. She was disable, but of value. This is how women of courage and imagination bring justice and fidelity in leadership.

Second, I dedicate this book to David Mureithi, Dean of Students, Moi University. As the Vice-Chairman of the Moi University Peer Counselling and Training, I organized a Disaster Management awareness week within the University on a Friday morning, left my juniors to be in charge, and went to the library to launch the launch programme. He realized that the music was high and students were preparing for exams. He came, took the radio, and kept it for us until the end of the semester. He gave it back to us at the end of the exams without any condition or punishment. He, too, taught me to take care of the welfare of people.

Third, I dedicate this book to Professor Richard Mibey, Vice-Chancellor, Moi University. After graduating, I went out to lead. One morning as I went to a bank in Nairobi, while in the queue, behind me was a tall man. I turned in curiosity and discovered it was my former Vice-Chancellor. I quickly pulled out of the line to allow him to be served first. No! He insisted that I go first. As the line continued, we storied about our University, but also he said that he was happy to find one of his students who have learned to save and invest. He said that he valued both the young and the old equally wherever he went. That is to serve all people equally, with integrity, competence, and efficiency, irrespective of who they are or come from.

Fourth, I dedicate this book to Prof. Ndirang’u Paul Kioni, Vice-Chancellor of the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology for two reasons. To start with, Paul his competence in leading the development and review of the corporate citizenship business strategies; to these at one point he contributed his instruments worth 20 million Kenya Shillings. He also spearheads the adoption of a performance driven culture in the organization with support of senior management team and human resources. Here I recall him giving 150,000 Kenya Shillings scholarship award from his 95-year old mother – the value of a teacher. I hail him as a servant leader and you can see this when he takes a photo of a bird in the campus graduation square. On 14 August 1984, at about 2:53 pm, in Sofia estate of Homa-Bay town, as I sat under a myrtle plant, some two children were testing who could urinate further, unfortunately the position of my bathing trough was their measuring yard and one hit it right inside my only remaining bathing water. Lake Victoria was far, taps were dry, and beating those boys was not a solution. I made my decision and bathed with that water with urine. The lesson is, apart from working towards renewable energy power options, data connection for students, food security for Kenyans