Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

How a Leader Fosters Organizational Growth Through Empathy and Responsibility When we talk about healthy leadership, it does not connote that the leader is sick or is not in the capacity to discharge his or her duties. Healthy leadership simply describe a situation where everything that has to do with the smooth running and operations of the organization is taking place as planned and there is little or no obstruction to growth and productivity. This scenario can only be the case in an atmosphere where there is cohesiveness and a healthy relationship between the leader and his team or his…

We have heard and read so much about how important the person of the Holy Spirit is to the believer. As a matter of fact, the Christian life would have been tiring, boring and lack substance without the person of the Holy Spirit. So, it is the person of the Holy Spirit that gives our Christian life and walk the necessary substance that it requires. When we became born again, the Holy Spirit came and indwell us. Ephesians 1:3-14 says: “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom…

There are a number of tests that we must pass in the school of God. I want us to open our Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy 8:1-5. The Bible says: “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart,…

Last week on Leaderview, we examined the life of a leader and one thing we said that I remember vividly was that the life of a leader epitomizes who a leader is: his value system, his way of life, his character, his communication, his vocation, his assignment and et cetera. The life of a leader is not apart from the leader; it is exactly who he is. In today’s podcast, we want to examine something that is also important and very close to the life of a leader. It is simply titled: the rule of life of a leader. Any…

The life of a leader epitomizes who a leader is: his value system, his way of life, his character, his communication, his vocation, his assignment and et cetera. The life of a leader is not apart from the leader; it is exactly who he is. Leadership is not limited to functionality alone, the major trunk of leadership is seen in responsibility and therefore, the life of a leader is such that exudes responsibility. In Acts 20:28, Paul wrote and said: “Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd…

Are we accursed people? Are Nigerians accursed in every sense of the word from top to bottom and from bottom to top? Are our citizens and compatriots members and denizens of an accursed race? Are we all typically splendidly beautiful outside or splendidly accursed inside? Are we terrible, accursed hypocrites in and out? Is the typical Nigerian a doomed fellow because he or she belongs to a black country of black people always feeling that the crack of doom is always near? These questions always announce their appearances in my mind any time I contemplate and meditate about this country…

One of the biggest tasks that could confront any leader is in leading an entity (be it an organization, a nation or a people) out of a systemic decadence. It could sometimes be easy to lead in an environment where everything seems to be working and structures are already in place that could help any leader succeed. However, when a leader is given the task of rescuing what appears to be fallen apart already, how can he or she succeed in such environment? Let us go straight into the Bible to see what Jesus did when He was faced with…

Last week, we began looking at certain factors that could make leadership task daunting. Our anchor text was the book of 1 Samuel 17. It documented the account of King Saul, David and Goliath. From that story, we were considering certain factors that could make leadership task very difficult to accomplish. Listen to Podcast: The Task of Leadership Part 2 We examined FEAR and one of the things we said about it was that fear hinders a leader from launching out and that great leaders at some point or the other in their leadership assignment had to overcome their…

Leadership task can sometimes be daunting. When it appears that this is the case in your own leadership assignment, there are a number of factors that are usually the cause of it and I want us to go straight into the word of God to see some of these factors and how we can overcome them as leaders. 1 Samuel 17. This is an account about King Saul, David and Goliath, the champion of the Philistine army at the time. Listen to Podcast: The Task of Leadership Part 1 “Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and…

Many people have been leaders in time past that we don’t get to talk about them again today. A number of reasons may have been adjudged for this, but chief among them is the fact that nobody remembers them again for anything or what they did. When you see a leader, whose influence transcends time and generations, it is simply because what they did simply outlived them and people still get to talk about them or refer to their contributions to humanity through leadership while they were leading their generation. Listen to Podcast: How to Become A Thought Leader Within…