Think for a moment about the best and the worst leaders you have encountered. What attributes differentiated the best from the worst? Was it street smarts? strong business acumen? Accomplished management skills-planning, bidgeting, organising e.t.c? Visioning or strategic skills? Powerful communication skills? Charisma? Operating skills?
All these characteristics are clearly valuable, but none will create what a leader needs most-"follower-ship".
By definition, a leader must be the kind of person others want to follow. This is true whether the leader is attempting radical, bold change or gradual increment change. A leader's primary responsibility is to produce positive change. In the business world, this means improving the value of the enterprise- a goal that is achieved by developing and then deploying an inspirational vision, by setting clear priorities, and by creating and sustaining a culture that enable success.
Now, think about some of the most problematic people with whom you have ever had to work. Consider people with whom it has been really difficult to work to achieve a common objective and who have caused big problems in your organisation. Do you think these individuals thoughts they were a problem? Most likely, they did not. Infact, it is very likely that just about everyone around them could see they were a problem- except for them.
It is a facinating paradox: the people who are big problems can't see that they are a problem. This phenomenon - known as self-deception- has important implications for leaders and for organisations. For example, how can leaders and organisations continuously improve their performance when some individuals whose single focus is what's best for the organisation - where each individuals first choice is to actively help their associates achieve shared goals; where personal agendas and politics do not exist; and where teams, departments and business units corporates enthusiastically to help one another succeed.
An organisation's ability to achieve such a state is inextricably linked to its leaders' ability to develop follower-ship, whichrequires learning, practicing and mastering five simple, yet deceptively challenging, core principles of effective leadership.

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It is a known fact that the future or progressive continuity of any group of people depends on the upcoming generations, that is the youths, and how well the future will be depends on the psychological state of the youths and their value system.
Nigeria and Africa in general has had set backs because they have had negative perception about themselves, it true that Africa is free from slavery, but that ermarked the begining of another kind of slavery that I call the MENTAL SLAVERY. We dont believe in ourselves or in anything we do, this is really a bad ormen for us as a developing nations.
Most youths have great ideas and thoughts run through their mind daily but this thoughts are often aborted due to impossibility way of thinking, inferiority, fear, proscratination and self unbelieve.
The developed countries around the world make all sorts of effort in diverse ways to help the developing countries to grow, but all these efforts can not be as productive as it should be, because the mentally to manage and develop whatever we have is not in place and besides that I think we are not really having an economic problem rather we are having an attitude problem.
If the youths who are the future leaders can be trained on how to be proactively involved in personal development, leadership and enterpreneurship skills, I think this would change a whole lot of things, especially the unemployment that is raging the country.
My advice to the youths is that, God has deposited in everyone what he/she needs to affect his/her world. Several thousand of thoughts run through our minds daily (both positive and nagative, try as much as you can to neglect, sieve or manage the negative thoughts, but pounder on the positive ones and develop them).
In the process of development, other thoughts of problems associated with that idea might arise, it will be expedient for you to neglect whatever that might be and conclude on the development of that idea, later on you will have to sought out a way of tackling that problem. This process of idea development makes you a result getter and not an idea killer.
So, please start developing every good idea that comes to you, for I tell you they could be just what would make the world be aware of your existence.

It is interesting to know that Africans in Diaspora are proud to uphold African cultures and traditions, even in the foreign countries where they reside.
This is why Ms. Eurica Haggins Axum Omowale of the Institute of International Education (IIE) and Prof. Johnson Paula Tendal Omotilewa both representing the African Diaspora Ancestral Commemorative institute (ADACI), visited Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. It was a three hours presentation lecture on the theme “Africans in Diaspora and Africans on the continent, an opportunity for a re-union”, on the history of how Africans in Diaspora came about and also why Africans on the continent should embrace their culture with all passion.
The first speaker, Ms. Haggins stated categorically what had been the lots of the Africans who were taken on slavery several decades ago, and also how that has affected the Africans presently in Diaspora, issues like racism, abuse, murder and other forms of unfair treatments to the Africans. She also talked about the aims and visions surrounding the creation of ADACI as an organization proudly promoting African culture and its heritage and what have been their activities in the United States of America since inception.
Ms. Haggins rounded up her session by making the general audience to understand the reasons they should encourage, embrace and stand up to their position as proudly Africans and be free from mental slavery.
Concluding the conference, was Prof Johnson Omotilewa, She gave some statistics of what has being the situation so far of the African-Americans. She stated that about 70% of the Black youths have sex often though protected, 55% of the youths are out of college for one reason or the other. This she said; is as a result of the negative images portrayed by the outside world of African and that there is nothing worthwhile they could do.
Finally, she made a claim of ADACI’s commitment to reviving the African dignity. The LAUTECH vice chancellor responded that he was very grateful for such a movement to promote Africa and Africans and also opted that such a kind of conference be repeated at intervals.

To so many youths, Valentine season means different things to them. Talking about the undergraduate student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso Nigeria, Valentine season is just one of the opportunity that offers ladies the privilege to demand and get expensive gift items from their Boyfriends(Lovers) and in turn, it illicitly create an avenue for the guys to deceitfully, after bankrupting themselves to acquire gifts for their girl friends, ask that they both go to his home to relax with each other, yeah something like a quite time together.
In the analogy of relaxing, the guy uses the medium to seduce the girl and have sex with her, protectedly or inprotectedly. This happens in most remarkable seasons, not because the youths do not know the real essence of Valentine period but because it has been a regular belief almost a norm in Nigeria that Valentine is a season for lovers to express themselves in having sex instead of showing love to the less privileged in the society, making them feel wanted and cared for.
To me, I think a conscious effort should be taken to minimise the widespread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in these seasons. Taking up youth sensitization campaign or rally in our communities would go a long way to minimise if not eradicate the spread of this dreadful diseases amongst our future leaders.