Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

I want to show us something beautiful in this piece about the ways and process through which a life can experience lasting change. Let us open our Bibles to the book of Job 14:14 and start our meditation from there. Many of us may not have read this portion of the Bible in a very long time and so, we are being privileged to be reading it in this article. The Bible says: “If a man dies, shall he live again?” Of course, Job raised a fundamental question here, even though this is not the main focus of our discourse,…

In this piece, we are going to be considering something that is an offshoot of last week’s message (Purpose, Placement and Destiny Fulfilment), and it has been titled: Strategic Alliances Towards Purpose and Destiny Fulfilment. One of the things that God specializes in doing is bringing us into strategic alliances or associations or relationships or companies that would help us towards the fulfillment of our God-given purpose. If you read Luke 1:39-45, it shows us how God strategically brings us into some of these alliances towards the fulfillment of His purpose for our lives. The Bible says: Listen to…

The height of Spiritual Maturity for a believer is that we attain the measure of the stature of Christ. This is like the zenith of being a born-again believer or child of God. In Ephesians 4:13, Paul wrote: “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man…” We have said over and over again that perfection is not a mirage, perfection is possible in Christ Jesus. This is like the first visible thing that everyone sees in you when Christ is fully formed in you. It…

In Isaiah 9:8, the Bible says: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” Impactful leaders don’t wait to see if anyone else is going to rise to the occasion before they signify interest. In this vision of Isaiah, he saw that God had a need and he willingly offered himself to meet the need of God. One thing that we must realize as leaders is that the central theme of our leadership assignment is the ability to rise to any occasion; whether they…

The foundation of impactful leadership is rooted in being able to make a lasting positive and meaningful contributions to your organization as the leader and the people within the sphere of your leadership. You see, most of the time, what many people have construed to be impact in leadership is actually not what it is. For example, the number of clothes you wear, or the number of houses you build or cars you buy as a leader; don’t amount to impact in leadership. Real leadership impact goes beyond these mundane things that we have mentioned. Real leadership impact is measured…

The broadness or narrowness of any leadership would be to the degree of the broadness or narrowness of the leader’s mindset. Nothing places limitation on any leadership endeavor other than the limitations that are entrenched in the mind of the leader. Whether we want to accept it or not, limitation is a thing of the mind. How far a leader would go in his or her leadership assignment would be determined by how broad or narrow the leader is in his or her thinking. Now, what does it mean to be narrow-minded? To be narrow-minded as a leader is to…

Now, don’t be in a hurry to answer this question. You might want to wait until I have read to us our case study before you put yourself on the hot sit of answering the question. One thing we must understand is that many leaders today are toxic in their approach to leadership but they don’t realize it yet. The best many of the leaders in this category do is to find one explanation or the other to justify their toxicity. How best do you explain corruption emanating from a Leader, unethical behaviors, work-place discrimination, unnecessary aggressiveness, all emanating from…

Jide Ojo This country has gone to tatters, I dare say. The recent revelations about the mindboggling cases of corruption by some of Nigeria’s civil servants and political leaders show that it will take divine interventions to rescue Nigeria from the shackles of corruption. Today, I want to examine the recent revelation by the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, as well as the planned auction of some of the stolen property of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dieziani Alison-Madueke. Starting with the ICPC story, the commission’s chairman last Thursday, October…

It is a common truth that change has always been a major issue for many organizations, the same way it has always been a shared characteristic of human life as well. For many people, change is usually perceived has been hard because most often than not, it is something that pull people out of their comfort zones and which also forces them to change their habits, which of course, makes them highly uncomfortable. So, to ignite any significant and lasting change in leadership does not happen overnight. Smart and effective leaders usually put in place systems that facilitates any change…

So far, we have examined the Structural Framework and the Vision driven Framework for raising the next generation of leaders. Today, we are going to be considering: Ethical Framework for Raising the Next Generation of Leaders. Under this framework, we are going to see why many modern-day leaders fail and what to avoid so that the next generation of leaders don’t fall into the same error that are being committed before our very eyes as we see in many leaderships across the world. Listen to Podcast: Ethical Framework for Raising the Next Generation of Leaders The lack of ethical…