I have thought over the past few days, What do I do for my birthday? What gift do I give to everyone? Something worthy of your friendship and emotions you have spent over the years and months on me. What do I collect from you all too? But here in Kano, the harmattan seems not…
Forty years from his conception, he’ll think back and ask himself questions. Pondering on the decisions he never took and those he took; in all the omissions and commissions that he embarked on that have made him who he is today. A man becomes who he is when he is able to conceive the purpose…
– 18TH JANUARY, 2014 – Dear friends, colleagues, family, lovers, admirers and acquaintances, Today marks the most important date in my existence, cherished most of all because it was the date I was born to my parents – to my mother specifically on that cold winter morning in Biberach, as she puts it. I…
I had intended to write on a different topic for the month of November, one different from the heading you see. And I do not think that the month of November plays host to the almost quarterly occurring Mother’s Day. I had intended to write and already begun the first few paragraphs on the topic,…
Two months ago, I started a series on Leadership, on which I intended to share my cogitations and experiences on the concept of Leadership especially from my viewpoint. I significantly highlighted the core of being a leader as action and not the position – that has not and would not change. Every leader is weighed…
Last month I started a series on Leadership and I was able to highlight a few of the lessons I had learnt from my experience in leadership positions. Of course, I did not exhaust the ink that was set aside for my thoughts on this. In the last episode, I highlighted the indispensability of action…
“Leadership is action, not position” – Donald H McGannon This happens to be one of my favourite quotes on leadership. Not just because it is the life truth of any leader but also that it has guided me in every position of leadership I have occupied and still occupy. It is possible to pun that…