INVITATION TO GREAT LEADERSHIP: Exploring the Strategies of Becoming a Great Leader
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INVITATION TO GREAT LEADERSHIP - Godwyns Ade' Agbude
Copyright © 2023 Dr. Godwyns Ade’ Agbude
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INVITATION TO GREAT LEADERSHIP: Exploring the Strategies of Becoming a Great Leader
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Godwyns Ade’ AGBUDE [Ph.D.]
Political Theorist, Author, Leadership Trainer, Filmmaker and Global Missionary
© Dr. Godwyns Ade’ Agbude
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Table of Contents
DISCLAIMER
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Case 1
Case 2
The components of Great Leadership
Competence
Character
Courage
Companionship
CHAPTER ONE
SERVANTHOOD
The Three Components of a Servant – Leader
The Attributes of Servant-Leaders
Summary
CHAPTER TWO
SEPARATION FROM STATUS QUO
What is tradition?
Historical Leaders who Broke Traditions
Observation
Improve or Eliminate
Sell your Ideas to the People
Make Changes Gradual
Summary
CHAPTER THREE
SHARING STIMULATING VISION
Getting a Vision
Believe it
Write it down
Communicate your Vision
How to Effectively Communicate Vision:
Passionately Pursue it
Summary
CHAPTER FOUR
SHARING POWER AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Summary
CHAPTER FIVE
SHOWING GOOD EXAMPLES
The Power of Observation
Examples to Show
Summary
CHAPTER SIX
SHARING THE GLORY AND THE GOLD
Behind the Scene
How to Share the Glory
Summary
CHAPTER SEVEN
START NOW!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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DISCLAIMER
I take responsibility for every incorrect information and ideology in this book.
These ideas are derived from my years of researching and teaching leadership courses.
Also, the choice of masculine pronouns in the book does not mean that I see leadership as a masculine phenomenon. The choice is merely for writing convenience. So, my apologies to feminist scholars and activists.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I acknowledge all my past students at Covenant University, Eko College of Management and Technology, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria; all the graduates of Charis School of Leadership and Business; all the mentees of Dr. Agbude & Friends on Social Media; everyone who will come under my leadership influence in the future and those who currently give me a space to talk leadership with them.
INTRODUCTION
The field of leadership has indeed been flooded with lots of research materials. Though this is a truism, we cannot stop discussing it, 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 scatter¹’.
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 will draw an analogy between an organization and a 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. Similarly, nobody gets into a vehicle or traveler’s bus just to be stationary. I believe mobility is one of the inherent 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 motion toward a given or desired destination. Similarly, when a person joins a corporation, he expects a kind of mobility – a