Part 2

......Virtues of Good Leadership
By Ebenezer K N Baiden-Amissah

Every good motivational speaker would propose that genuinely it is best to associate yourself as much as possible with the group of persons next to be promoted in your organization. With ex cathedra or total authority he would insist that the more you walk with such people, the brighter your chances of following their good example and you certainly might soon gain an edge in terms of recognition over your other colleagues.

Naturally, most people feel comfortable when they move around with a winner. The hero for the occasion becomes their role model. They would eagerly assert the affirmation that “We must adopt the style of leadership by example”. Thus they like their role models.

Leaders do not only become trendsetters but also pacesetters. Worthy of note however should be the fact that not all leaders are good ones. It is not every leader who sets good examples all the time. The active role some leaders play in the day to day affairs of an organization is that of doing things the wrong way.

Information Technology (IT) experts claim that you cannot completely gloss over situations of GIGO in a computerized system. GIGO is the acronym for the words “Garbage in, garbage out”. This categorically suggests that when you feed in erroneous data into a computer system you should obtain wrong results. When you advertently or inadvertently follow the wrong footsteps of a wayward leader you would have everything wrong in the very end.

Besides, our Holy Scriptures enshrines in Romans 14:17 the principle the Apostle Paul of the Early Church taught: “For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” The plain truth is that the gossip that flows down from the top of the chain of command in an organization does flow back upwards through the rungs of the same organizational ladder. If you had listened earlier on to some of the comments such “company gossipers” said about the novel organizational law you would have heard: “The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) demands it; the Managing Director (MD) approves it”. You would also have heard it whispered, “Do it that way and there’ll be peace.”



We need not idolize our leaders therefore. They should not be objects of our excessive admiration. You know from experience that when you idolize your own physical body for instance you would not as a couple decide to give birth at all and would not want to urge other couples to do so because of the labour pains involved in the process of childbirth.

We should express sadness a bit when some things go wrong this time in our present day society. The fact that all Christendom believe in God as an Eternal Supreme King cannot be overstressed. He never experiences happiness when part of humanity show by their actions that this world is a brothel house for indecency and immorality or perhaps a restaurant for surfeiting and drunkenness.
A positive, good and healthy relationship with people which cuts across gender tracks, creed, fields of discipline and culture is the ideal kind of lifestyle we should all emulate.
That way we can succeed in all our endeavours and see our wildest dreams take perfect shape.

In some cases most unmarried young people enjoy the warmth of being in the company of godly married couples when there is the need to make friends. Couples of this sort would not lead them into immorality but guide them to a great length on how to succeed in their impending marriages as well as encourage them to make their own not-too-distant future homes better ones.