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Dear friends, we continued our conversation on servant-leadership yesterday while taking references from Robert Neuschel's book titled: "The Servant Leader: Unleashing the Power of Your People."

It was indeed an interesting episode & here are the excerpts.

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There are no simple formulas that can guarantee success as a leader. Leadership is a skill that requires capacity

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You cannot live in the past. Great as the past might be, it isn't significant when you are looking at the present. It does not create a sense for the future because it is the NOW that creates the future

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If a man does not have the capacity now, what makes you think he will lead well?

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Leadership is for a season for an individual but when you get off that track it means that you are presenting a legacy. It means that the people you have groomed can now take on the mantle.

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Leadership is a skill that requires capacity, it requires dedication and experience which means you have to give yourself time to live and learn.

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When you are looking for a leader to successfully take the ship called Nigeria to a place, at least get it through the tumult and push into the deep ocean despite all...

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...that will be coming with the rudder firming its hands & with the right crew, we know that the affairs of this nation will get back on track.

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When you realize that you have spent a good number of years observing & practicing, you begin to find yourself into a more focused space of strategic planning.

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You start becoming a thinker, looking at thought leadership, organizational structure, management development. You will then consider logistics, logistics here is the entire chain, what will make any system work well end to end.

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All of these means that you are acquiring leadership. Don't be a single-phased leader. Specialization is great but when you open your heart to learn you will make the best of it.

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Ethical leadership is what makes everything come together. Underneath it lies strong values.

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If you do not have a man or woman driven by ethics, the country, business, community or wherever that person superintends over will be in trouble.

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Human effectiveness is one of the few remaining human frontiers, mastery of which will give anybody starting from you a competitive advantage for the future.

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So, if you drive your own personal effectiveness or that of your team, or you drive the overall leadership effectiveness, it is going to give you a competitive advantage & edge in the future.

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When you look at any institution, you find that any individual who aspires to be an effective leader has most to gain by meeting the challenge of increasing the effectiveness of those who work with him or her.

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Our country needs to be repackaged & repackaged here speaks to the mind of the people. We must have a DNA that speaks to oneness.

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We must understand that we must be able to develop & shape our own leadership patterns. We must have the level of leaders that we want to be well-groomed & polished.

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You need to distinguish & evaluate your quality. Your quality is what makes you tick & when you understand how to galvanize people, put them through an agenda, then you become a high-profiled leader.

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You will also be able to identify the gaps that you have & those gaps are the things you fill up but if you don’t listen to those things or see them, you are opening yourself up for disaster in the future because #leadership is a place that exposes you

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When a leader lacks essence his/her confidence goes out the window.

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When you are going through the process, one important element that the university training can contribute to an aspiring leader is to give him or her a well-rounded view of the world and the place of the student in it.

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When you find yourself as an executive at whatever level, if you take on the mindset and the mind frame of a student, then it helps you put some level of competence and belief into your system.

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Leaders should not view themselves solely as technical experts. Leaders solve problems through people in organizations, businesses, or communities.

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People are faced with perennial problems and so what they need is someone that will say this is the way.

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Technology can help, however what the future portends for us friends, is more of our ability to lead with better technology not just to create technology.

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Leaders must understand that accomplishments can be made only through people. People are the primary materials with which leaders work.

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When you don’t involve people as a leader, the chances are that you may not succeed at the end of the day.

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It is the leader's task to organize and inspire the people to achieve whatever mission they have in mind. Techniques, processes, all of that as great as they are, they are not enough.

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It is vital to understand that the individual’s function is part of a living whole.

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Are you a father, mother, sibling, uncle, or aunt? What you need to understand is how each of those roles fit into the family plan.

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How each of those roles supplement or even conflict with the other parts. The other parts imply, other families.

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It is necessary to know what our reasonable and realistic tradeoffs that can and should be made with other areas of the total activities.

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Leadership also gives room for negotiation. You must be able to give inorder to take. You cannot take alone, you must also be willing to give.

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There is always a table, there is always a place of exchange, there is always a place where you need to go low in order to come high.

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The highest calling of leaders is to know how to shape the parts to make them fit better into the whole.

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Leadership is so challenging, when someone sits there at the top, people tend to look at you as the only one that can solve problems.

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They will come to you with problems and not solutions. So, how do you understand where to shape the parts to make them fit better. That's the task of a leader.

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No man is an island and the entirety of man will tell you that every man is a piece of the entire continent. So it is with individual leader at any level.

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The leader is part of the whole and his/her responsibility is to make the whole greater because of his or her leadership presence.

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Don't say there is a major catastrophe on the ground and it is that other persons fault. It is your fault too because it is your responsibility. You are a part of the whole and that person is a part of the whole.

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Take up your own presence and make your presence count. That is leadership.

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When you don't speak to contrary situations, then you are a conspirator. Conspiracy of silence is what kills many leaders.

Thank you for being a part of the program, and we hope you will find these nuggets insightful. To listen to these podcast, please visit anchor.fm/idyenang & for questions/feedback, send an email to [e-mail]

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Join us tomorrow at 3PM on 91.3FM for tomorrow's edition, as Mr. @IdyEnang continues on this trajectory.

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