Do those who run for political office really understand what it takes to transform a country. Do parents lead their children in the right way? Bosses know that the company or organization depends on their leadership capabilities.
Bad Leadership can do the following evils to a family, religious organization, community, country or even company: Bad leadership:
1. Costs you time: A bad leaders would waste time at unprofitable ventures ignoring those things that need to be done. And all the people s/he leads would suffer for it so will the organization. Nigerians who are in their 40s and 50s will realize that very little has been achieved in our democracy these 19 years. The stories are still the same.
2. Lost Opportunities: Definitely opportunities are lost when the leader lacks the skills and vision to lead the entity through a crisis situation or to make the people achieve a commonly desired state of being.
3. Lost Momentum; Some African countries got independence around the same time that the so called Asian Tigers got theirs. Today there is a world of difference between us. At some point in time we derailed. How can we be so blessed but so poor at the same time?
4.Lost Money: Its amazing how bad leadership will cause business people, givers in a church, customers to a company or even opportunities to a family to disappear. I just cant imagine how much money Nigeria has lost. The thieves who are leaders take our money to countries like Switzerland , UK and US and when they come back home we welcome them like heroes. Part of the problem is with the follower ship.
5 Damaging peoples' Values. The present young generation is in chaos over what is wrong and what is right. We used to have dignity in labor, but there are a lot of youngsters who just want to eat without working; they seem gambling, gangsterism and cultism as a way of life.
6. Damages generational wealth: The war in Syria is such that a lot of the houses, artifacts and investments can never be recovered again. Boko Haram and Killer Herdsmen continue to wreck serous havoc in Northern Nigeria and Government appears to be helpless to stop it.
7. Damages High Standards: These days people are willing to take short cuts in services, industry, governance and even parenting and the results are obvious. Standards fall and the outcomes are horrible.
8. Destroys accountability: Bad leaders feel that they are not accountable to anyone. They do whatever they like and tend to get away with it. But it bounces back on their followers. Parents who are bad leaders will raise children without values or a sense of purpose, bad leaders of a country will waste the resources and not care about it. Bad leaders defy accountability and dont care about the people who follow or look up to them.
Inspired by Bishop Tudor BIsmack
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