For Ghana to develop economically and wean herself from the list of African countries that throng the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for bailout, she needs a leadership shift, the CEO of the Centre for Transformational Leadership in Africa (CTL Africa) Samuel K. Ayim has said.
Speaking at the launch of the 2018 ‘Live2Lead’ Tuesday in Accra , Mr Ayim said “the lamentations are endless. But we cannot continue like this. We need a drastic shift. We need a change, not only in mindset but also in ‘heart set’. Intellectually, we all know we are on the wrong path. What we need is the deep heart desire to change course. A commitment to reverse the trend. We need a new form of leadership across all segments of our society.
“We need a values-based transformational leadership. We need to agree, adopt and inculcate values at all levels of our national life that will help transform our nation for the better. Yes, we can debate and agree or disagree on the values. But some values must be obvious to us all: We need a new Ghanaian, a new Ghanaian leader, who is ready to stand for truth, honesty, hard work, humility, wise planning, common sense, self-discipline (self-leadership) and generosity (by which I mean the love and care for the followers rather than the selfish pursuit of personal, family and friends gains at the expense of the corporate or national interests).
“We need leaders who value the people enough to work to add value to them not to take advantage of them and deprive them of everything God has given to them, including their dignity. We need a shift from the poverty mentality which for me is the cause of the greed and corruption that has so far characterized all levels of leadership, even in our churches.”
Mr. Ayim who is bent on seeing ‘leaders’ act responsibly and in the interest of those they lead moaned “with all our natural and human resources endowments, how do we explain the endemic poverty among the vast majority of our people while a few ‘create, lute and share’ the state coffers as if they are without a conscience? How do we explain treating our sick and vulnerable on bare concrete floors while our leaders fly abroad for medical treatment? How do we explain pregnant women being carried on chairs to cross flooded rivers to the nearest (or shall I say the farthest) medical centre and thereby losing their babies, just because we cannot construct simple bridges to facilitate transportation?
“Meanwhile, huge sums of money are squandered on ghost and uncompleted projects. How do we explain the inaction and seeming complicity of state institutions and regulators while so-called professionals bankers and their patrons and cronies drive our whole financial system into a ditch necessitating a near 12 billion Ghana Cedis bailout by the sweat of our poor farmers and ‘kayayos’ and ‘kayayes’? How can we explain so-called men of God giving lotto numbers and magically conjuring cash while thousands of unsuspecting congregants, in their desperation and ignorance, flock to the so-called prophets as bees to honey, all in the name of God is still in the miracle business?”
Live2Lead 2018
Live2Lead is designed to deliver the very best leadership content to inspire and motivate leaders and their teams, help them connect with other influencers in the community and expand their business network with relationships that produce tangible results. Live2Lead 2018 is being simulcast in more than 300 locations across over 30 countries. For more than 10 years Live2Lead has been the summit of international thought leadership event and has developed and equipped thousands of leaders across the world to lead better and to add more value to their teams.
The theme for this year’s Live2Lead is the SHIFT – addressing the shifts that leaders need to embrace in order to be successful and make the necessary impact. Live2Lead 2018 will be addressed by world-renowned and distinguished personalities including Carly Fiorina, Debra Searle, Daniel Pink, Tyler Perry, John Maxwell and our own Uncle Ebo Whyte.
Live2Lead 2018 will be SIMULCAST live in Accra, Ghana on October 12, 2018, at the Auditorium of the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The worldwide leadership simulcast event will be hosted by the CTL Africa. The Centre hosted the 2017 Live2Lead which was a great success as judged by the positive feedback of participants.
Registration starts at 11:30 am. The event will begin at 12:30 am and conclude at 5:30 pm on October 12. There will be a special Dinner and Talk session for VIP participants only on October 11, 2018, at the Swiss Spirit (Alisa) Hotel at 5.30 pm.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
