INVITATION TO GREAT LEADERSHIP: Exploring the Strategies of Becoming a Great Leader

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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

Joy, Daniel, Grace and Faith

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