To get things done on a massive and impressive scale, a whole lot revolves around leadership. From intentions and decisions to actions, the right leadership understands the stakes, mobilizes and motivates people, and leads from the front. In today’s fast-paced world, leadership has evolved to be participatory in nature. For a fact, it is no longer sufficient for leaders to sit idly while their subordinates do the hard stuff. Stage by stage, brick by brick, step by step, the right leader moves with the people, sets the pace, engages with them, builds the process, and identifies with their worries and concerns.
Whether in politics or the corporate world, a participatory leader stands a far better chance of changing the status quo, transforming the system, and reinventing the wheel of societal progress. By grasping the reality of the modern era, its uniqueness, and style, such a leader stays on the line while avoiding the dangers and risks often associated with leading in an unpredictable environment. By understanding the perils and pitfalls of leadership in an atmosphere fraught with mutual mistrust and distrust, such a leader not only redefines leadership but remodels the process and reworks both expectations and reality. For Amofin Beulah Adeoye, leadership is more than service and sacrifice.
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As a follower of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Amofin Adeoye believes in an evolutionary approach to leadership: a model that often trumps incremental steps toward addressing social and political phenomena. Firmly and strongly, Amofin Adeoye opines that achievable and sustainable progress is only possible when people understand and voluntarily buy into various government programs backed by sound policy. He often cites examples of the free education policy implemented by the late sage as a test case, particularly in transforming the entire western region into an intellectual landscape. On radio, he has expressed his admiration for the late Premier of the region and has even gone on to identify other prominent leaders on a global scale.
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But the grandiose vision of a leader does not stop him/her from distractions, diversions, and attacks by those who want to derail and disturb. This writer noted just last week that distractions can come in the form of outright invectives, outlandish falsehoods, and fictitious fallacies. He added that through speculations, assumptions, and rumors, distractions may ultimately serve the whims of the distractors. But he equally warned that an adaptive leader will know that when distractors go low, he and his team must exude confidence, radiate competence, and demonstrate character by going higher and higher in all ramifications. In other words, as Michelle Obama once enthused, “when they go low, leaders must go high.”
Aside from distraction, diversion also plays a significant role in derailing leaders from getting things done. By diverting or straying a leader from a course, less is done while more challenges pile up on his desk.
From his days as a student at the prestigious University of Ibadan to his time as a corporate legal luminary, Amofin Beulah Adeoye has learned the art of staying on course while cutting down the trees of distractions and diversions for the greater good of the people.
Olajide Hamzat writes about the various prospects and potential of Oyo state while projecting Amofin Beulah Adeoye as a solution provider, problem solver, and creative, adaptive, and innovative leader and thinker with compassion and empathy.
