Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

There is no ruling out the very fact that every leader needs God! Leadership responsibilities are no small responsibilities and most times, it requires the divine strength and enablement that only God can supply. And so, leaders who understand the God Factor often seek divine guidance in daily processes, and most especially, when it is time to make tough decisions. This involves prayer, meditation on the word of God, and seeking God’s wisdom in all leadership processes. Trusting in God’s guidance allows leaders to make decisions that are ethical, just, and aligned with God’s divine plans and agenda for those…

African Development Bank (AfDB) has criticised Nigeria’s decision to concentrate on import substitution model, instead of creating wealth through export market development and product diversification.This was as Director General of Nigeria Employment Consultative Association (NECA), Adewale Oyerinde, called on the Federal Government to abolish taxes on carbonated drinks, saying suspension by President Bola Tinubu is not enough.Speaking in Abuja, yesterday, at the Nigeria Employment Summit, organised by NECA, Oyerinde insisted that improving taxes on manufacturing outfits amounts to digging while in a pit.He said: “While suspension of the taxes for three months is good, a total reversal will be of…

Now in the next few episodes on Leaderview, beginning from today’s episode, we are going to be considering The Laws of Effective Leadership. Now, there are many laws that govern effective leadership. An understanding of these laws and how they work would go a long way to save the leader from unnecessary headaches in his or her leadership. And so, the first law of effective leadership that we are going to be considering today is The Law of Difference. Now, let’s talk about the law of difference and what exactly we can glean from that law.The law of difference expresses…

On Leaderview today, we want to look at something together that I believe is also important to our leadership. We want to look at something in the line of transformational leadership. And the title is: The Hallmark of Transformational Leadership. What is it about our leadership that requires that transformational outcome? What is it about our leadership that will drive that transformational agenda that every leadership is expected to be known with or is expected to be identified with.Listen to Podcast: The Hallmark of Transformational LeadershipNow, when we talk about the hallmark of transformational leadership, it talks about the ability…

One of the things that leaders (every leader) must learn in the course of their leadership is the need to lead with caution. Every leader must learn how to lead with caution. Now, to lead with caution does not actually connote that the leader should be afraid. Leading with caution does not equate being afraid in leadership. In actual sense, to lead with caution is to lead with every sense of duty and carefulness in order to bring about the gains of that leadership. So, to lead with caution does not mean that you are afraid to lead as the…

In this week’s edition of Leaderview, I want to share with us something that I believe is going to help us in our leadership and something that I believe is one of the cores of our leadership. I want to talk about something that is titled Courageous Leadership. And I want to read a story to us in the Bible, from the book of Judges, chapter four, that story is going to form the bedrock of what we’re going to be talking to ourselves on courageous leadership. The story is about a leader of Israel, who happens to be a…

One of the essential elements of leadership is an understanding of how to safeguard the gains of leadership. Every leader must be able to understand the gains of his or her leadership, and also must be able to properly safeguard it. In Matthew 5:17 (MSG), the Bible showed us something that Jesus said. It says: “Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures—either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama (view, outlook)” In…

On today’s Leaderview, I want to share with us on something that has been titled: Leadership Ethos and Workplace Efficiency. Now, you may be asking yourself a number of questions as a leader talking about the area of productivity and efficiency in your leadership. Peradventure as a leader, you have been thinking on how to improve your team’s efficiency or how to get them to deliver at their maximum level of efficiency. Now, what we want to share with ourselves today is going to give us some idea, and a few things that we can do in order to get…

I want to share something with us that I believe is important in our leadership endeavors. Now, we are looking at: The Demands of Productive Leadership and I believe that what we are going to be sharing with ourselves today is going to be one of the things that we set our leadership productivity on a pedestal that will give you and I, you know, some level of joy and happiness in our leadership. Now, let us begin by looking at what effective leadership is. One of the hallmarks of effective leadership, actually, is productivity. I believe over time, we’ve…

Spontaneous leadership is about responding to problems in quick time with a plan of action. There is no leadership problem, no matter how big or small, that does not have a response approach. When you understand the response approach, then you will tackle the problem headlong. Most times, when problems degenerate into something that is beyond control, the reason is because leadership have failed to respond swiftly. One of the many skills a leader is expected to have amongst other things, is the ability to act spontaneously or act swiftly. Leaders are expected to be able to think through a…