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3 Signs That Your Leader May Be Leading You Astray

3 Signs That Your Leader May Be Leading You Astray

Leadership is one of the most important and delicate things in every society and the lives of everyone within such spheres.

It is not something to be trifled with or decided with any form of bias, undue influence, or sentiments. If you follow or subject yourself to be under bad leadership, your end may not be as delightful and successful as you hope it would be.

A person that cannot be corrected when they’re wrong, and is so set on their ways is a disaster waiting to happen, as Gen. Sani Abacha was to Nigeria!

When a blind person acts as a guide on the road to other blind persons, we all know that it’s only a matter of time before they all end up in a ditch, don’t we?

Leaders have the power to determine the way the destinies of everyone under the sphere of their influence would end up. Hence, it is very important that you don’t follow or choose to be under any leader who exhibits or has any of the following traits:

(1) They have no one they follow or submit to.

One of the most outstanding traits of a good leader is that they are superb followers first, before anything else.

You cannot lead if you can’t follow, and anyone who refuses to subject themselves to any authority above them and follow diligently is not fit to lead others. Beware of such people and friends around you, and never allow them to suck you into their circle.

Virtually every leader that has ever ruled and shaped the affairs of this world has one thing in common – they were diligent, exemplary, and loyal followers of someone else before the mantle of leadership was passed on to them eventually.

(2) They are incorrigible.

No matter what your relationship may be with anyone, if you ever notice this trait, you would do well to start taking steps to cut them off from your life entirely.

A person that doesn’t listen to others, cannot be corrected when they’re wrong, and is so set on their ways is a disaster waiting to happen!

Such people would keep making terrible and uninformed decisions because they refuse to heed the voice of reasoning around them. Following a leader like this can only result in disaster, as they will surely lead you astray.

(3) They lack self-control.

Any good leader must be a master of their emotions, will, desires, and reactions. They must not be someone who has no self-control regarding money, anger, or the opposite sex.

A person that aspires to lead and have rule over others must first exhibit concrete control over themselves before the destinies of countless other people can be entrusted to them.

If any of these signs are present in whoever it is you’re currently following, we would advise that you have a rethink and start cutting off from such leaders.

A leader should inspire, build, motivate, and show you how to be better and do better every day. Do not settle for anything lesser than this.

 

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Meet Tope Awotona – Nigerian Commercial Giant And Tech Billionaire

Meet Tope Awotona – Nigerian Commercial Giant And Tech Billionaire

If the saying: “Do not despise the days of little beginnings” could ever become a human being, it would definitely be Nigerian Commercial and Technology mogul, Tope Awotona, who has risen from being an average sales representative in 2006 to one of only two tech billionaires in the world in 2022.

Inspiring, motivating, sensational; the appellatives we could use to describe this remarkable young man are endless, but one thing that is for certain about him is that he never had it easy growing up in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa, and he had a driven and 100% focused mentality to become the very best at his craft or nothing!

Today, the whole world uses his brainchild, Calendly, and it is unarguably one of the very best tools for organizing the world of commerce and scheduling. According to a recent ranking on Forbes, Tope is currently worth over $1.4 Billion, and he is one of only two tech billionaires in the world. He is also one of the very few billionaires of African and Nigerian origin presently.

How did this mission that has made him a global phenomenon start? It began, according to him, at the age of 12 when he witnessed the murder of his father during a carjacking incident that went awfully wrong. Having been born and raised in Lagos State, Nigeria, Tope swore that he was never going to experience such again, and he also became very determined to get over that terrible experience.

So, some years later, he left Nigeria to attend college in the United States of America in 1996. There he got his life together and started doing quite well as a manager with Dell EMC. One day, though, he decided that he wanted to take the next step in his life by taking a huge leap of faith. So, he quit his job at EMC, put all his life savings of about $200,000 back then into his dream, and the result of that move is the Calendly we all celebrate today!

The simplistic quality in the DNA of this product is reportedly one of its greatest selling points and the reason why it is as widely embraced by both corporations and individuals worldwide.

Tope Awotona started Calendly as its founder and CEO in 2013, and the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward is now well renowned worldwide.

According to him, he founded the tech firm with “the vision of simplifying scheduling for everyone without the back-and-forth emails.” Now, with his visionary and strategic direction, Calendly has grown and evolved to over 10 million monthly users.

Before Calendly, Tope spent the majority of his career in enterprise software sales, working for companies such as IBM, Perceptive Software, and Dell Technologies, in addition to launching a series of startups.

He holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia, and he is the recipient of the 2021 Atlanta Business Chronicle Most Admired CEO Award and the 2019 Comparably Best CEOs award.

Tope is an inspiration to every young person aspiring to become the very best at whatever it is they do in life, as his rise through the sordid experience of seeing his father slain to joining an elite class of the world wealthiest is indeed a remarkably commendable feat.

 

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Meet Kingsley Ezeani – Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur Breaking Grounds In Harvard University From His Humble Lagos Beginnings

Meet Kingsley Ezeani – Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur Breaking Grounds In Harvard University From His Humble Lagos Beginnings

When 500 highly qualified startup teams across Harvard University applied to the President’s Innovation Challenge, not many people thought that the best brain amongst this lot would be a Nigerian from an unprivileged background.

The competing teams included those selected from Harvard Business School and the Harvard School of Engineering. At the end of it all, tech entrepreneur Kingsley Ezeani was chosen as the winner.

This was just a few weeks after he emerged as the grand prize winner at the Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition, the most prominent business competition at HBS.

Kingsley did not just start excelling at these competitions overnight, though, as he had come a long way before arriving at the celebrated finished product he is today.

An entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience building and scaling technology businesses in Africa, he is a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. In 2019, Kingsley was selected as an Obama Foundation African Leader.

An alumnus of the University of Lagos, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2012, he moved on to the prestigious University of Oxford for his Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, which he completed in September 2020. About a year later, he moved on to Harvard University, where he bagged his Mid-Career Master in Public Administration and became an Edward S. Mason Fellow this June 2022.

Speaking about his recent achievements, Kingsley said: “I graduated from Harvard against all odds! I was the first in my family to study outside Nigeria, and I got accepted to Harvard University on a full scholarship!

My father first told me about Harvard University when I was a kid. After my undergraduate degree at the University of Lagos, passing through the crimson doors of Harvard remained a key goal for me.

During my time at Harvard, I was honored to win four of the biggest competitions at the school, including the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, which came with recognition from President Joe Biden.

Today I feel blessed and humbled to say that I am a graduate of Oxford University and Harvard University. I owe it all to my parents!”

Kingsley is the Co-Founder and CEO of CashEx, based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It is a venture-backed Fintech startup building the future of digital banking for African communities.

He is also the Founder of Techhive Africa, which helps African businesses drive their digital transformation.

Kingsley is an Adrian Cheng Fellow and an Obama Foundation Leader. His other core skills include SEO, Entrepreneurship, Online Advertising, Public Relations, Web Development, Strategy, Social Media, Online Media, Google Analytics, Facebook Marketing, and many more.