Browse Kumuyi, William F.

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Sir, listen up! leaders can be better communicators turning the art of verbal exchange into an awesome weapon of influence if they can do one more thing: listen well. A lot of leaders are bad listeners; because they listen with bias, impatience, inattention and a closed mind.		Jun 1, 2008	1445
Dear leader, share the burden: successful leaders aren't soloists. All great leaders I know are good team players. For, no leader can do the job of leading alone and yet steer his organisation onto the shores of growth and wealth.		Apr 1, 2008	1574
Sir, you don't need more time.		Mar 1, 2008	1709
Why serious visioning and visioners are strangers in Africa.	Viewpoint essay	Feb 1, 2008	1469
The functions of a servant-leader: "True leadership emerges from those whose primary motivation is a deep desire to help others.".		Dec 1, 2007	1598
The case for servant leadership: what Africa needs for its redemption is servant leadership instead of the self-serving governance that the continent is famed for. Our leaders should add the servanthood attitude to their attributes and demonstrate that their primary motivation for seeking to lead the people is rooted in a deep desire to serve and help out.		Nov 1, 2007	1409
Leaders and stress: managing the monster.		Oct 1, 2007	1672
Seven communication tips an effective leader must have (II): "When I send a man to buy a horse, I don't want to be told how many hairs the horse has in his tail. I wish only to know the points", said Abraham Lincoln. Effective communication calls for painstaking search, selection and stringing of picture-building words.	Column	Aug 1, 2007	1466
Seven communication tips an effective leader must have: if persuasion is what you want, the email, voice mail, telephone and telefax are "poor" channels. If you want to put your workers on the vision trip, look into their eyes and tell them your mission.		Jul 1, 2007	1608
One major thing: communication; Are you a leader at the helm of your organisation? And you think you've got all it takes to keep the organisation running and moving up? But if good communication skills aren't among your credentials, your leadership is heading for storms. Effective leadership without effective communication is impossible.	Column	Jun 1, 2007	1499
Axioms of effective leadership (Part II). All successful leaders have positive attitude about their roles. They have adjusted their minds' "glasses" such that they see the brighter sides of things and are blind to the gloomy. They are incurable optimists, men and women of daring faith. Otherwise, they won't be able to birth visions and follow them up to reality.		May 1, 2007	1502
Axioms of effective leadership (Part 1). Having a leader in charge doesn't guarantee progress and profit unless the leader has what it takes for his leadership to function effectively. Of all the attributes of effective leaders, love appears to me the most critical.	Viewpoint essay	Apr 1, 2007	1595
Why visions fail: once a vision misses its time and season, it disintegrates into mere wishful thinking. Nothing proves more fatal for vision than shifting attention.		Mar 1, 2007	1622
After the vision, what next? A leader shouldn't overdrive his workforce lest they grow weary and slide from motivation to indifference. Short-term thinking is an obsession with quick results. But the vision trip isn't a sprint.		Feb 1, 2007	1671
Dear leader, vision is it: without vision the people perish. A vision is a future reality seen now. It is a portrait of a future that grabs. Are you a leader--a CEO? Then you aren't appointed simply to maintain the status quo and ensure the wind blows on as usual. You are to dream, dare and do.	Viewpoint essay	Jan 1, 2007	1615
Africa: the leaders we need; Just any leader won't solve Africa's problems. The leaders that the continent needs are people who understand its problems and will sincerely employ leadership to solve them. The leader and his turf must match. Thus, who is good for Europe may not be so good for Africa.	Column	Dec 1, 2006	1503
Wanted: leaders! Unless we have the right leaders doing the right things, Africa may never emerge from the cocoon of misery. Leadership isn't only about who to be; it's also about what to be. A leader is a seer, seeker, servant, strategist, shepherd, sustainer, steward, and spokesman.		Nov 1, 2006	1624