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The Enemy of Development Within Developing Countries

By the insightful observation in African leadership and development, it has been realized that the enemy of development in Africa is within Africa, the enemy of the development of Ghana is within Ghana, and the enemy of the progress of Ghanaians are within Ghanian themselves. The enemy of political and economic freedom in Ghana is within the Ghanaian politicians. The politicians' crookedness of life, the other leaders in the various sectors' diabolic leadership, the citizens' backstabbing practices and other worthless cultural dominances reveal practically that the enemy to development of Africa is within Africa. They live on lack of understanding, unity, and vision, so development has become impractical. They did sell their own valuable people as slaves. They have killed their own great leaders for mere hates. They don't value the lives of their own people. They are selling their own land to be destroyed by illegal miners mostly from China. They are destroying their own water bodies. They are killing their own people for certain rituals to get money, fame, power, and become superrich the next day. They are destroying their own country with severe selfishness, uncontrol greediness, injustice, dishonesty, and corruption leaving their countries into the pedestal as the international loans beggars. They ignorantly think IMF is their blessing organization instead of being a curse to African development. They should understand that their assumed savior IMF is Satan incarnated for Africans' development. When African leaders wake up in Africa, why do they still wait for IMF or any such institutions to get them water to wash their faces? African leaders in Africa are boorishly and indecorously cultured by their own culture to increase crime and poverty among their citizens. This has made development in Africa magical and impossible. When leaders assume power or leadership, they do not promote national development but selfish development.

Among such enemies includes the following below:

• The enemy of shortsighted lifeclasss. Their leaders don't think to set vision for the next generation. They live to enjoy life only now and a few years ahead for their own families, not the people they serve. The leaders' personal goals include more cars, huge ex gratia, building more houses, boasting of having personal drivers who drive them, riding in V8 vehicles, having huge dollar accounts, and being worshipped by the title honorable.

• The enemy of government's bad intentions. Government kills or fights the businesses of their own people. If you are a business owner and perhaps, they sense that you are not sympathetic with them or their selfish leadership, they fight you to ensure that you are destroyed. Politicians will politically tag you as an enemy until they finally destroy your business. That is their vision, to destroy unlike China and the United States where their business owners are helped to flourish. China had a ten-year plan to raise billionaires, but Africans' political leaders don't have vision for the progress of their citizens. They even end up collapsing the local companies. All leaders must have a practical plan for the growth and development of systems and businesses.

• The enemy of muzzled citizens. African political leaders have destabilized the political environment with disunity. They have muzzled or suppressed their citizens so they could control their rights with corruption. Their people are restricted and restrained from developing and expressing their opinions. If one discovers and discloses any practices of illegal mining, corrupt practices, or any such inappropriate practices, one becomes their target enemy. Leaders don't want any ordinary person to advise them. The chiefs and political leaders are served rather than them serving their people. They should be united with a vision to change things for the better.

• The enemy of backstabbing. Another bad behavior that is preventing Black leadership from developing is backstabbing. Backstabbing is a deceptive attempt to discredit and ruin someone's reputation. It's the negative intentionality of the mind and actions to destroy another. When the Ghanaian president Nana Akufo Addo was anxious to become the president of Ghana, he backstabbed then President John Mahama as incompetent because the dollar-cedi ratio was 1:2. During his time within few years of Nana Addo's leadership in 2022, the dollar-cedi ratio reached 1:12. And it changed negatively to 1;15 in June 2024 just after NPP Vice Dr. Bawumia said his position as the vice was a mere driver's mate. Who then is incompetent? The time and mind that leaders must use to think, dream, and visualize a better system and life for better living, Black leaders rather use those times and energies to find negative means to backstab another.

• The enemy of loss of direction. A traditional leader in Ghana lamented when he realized that political leaders, the parliamentarians, and minister of finance are scheming to be superrich at the expense of the nation. He said, “They are corruptly raping and robing the nation.” When I got to know the manner Ghanaian political leaders rob the nation leaving the ordinary citizen to suffer to die and they don't have direction to prepare the country for the next generation, I ask myself, Why should I not sue IMF for giving such leaders loans to enrich themselves? The political leaders eagerly seek loans for new vehicles so they could look great or best in the society and heartlessly leave ordinary Ghanaian to suffer in poverty.

• The enemy of dishonesty. The culture of dishonesty has been practiced over the centuries, so it's difficult to report corrupt behavior in the country. If you report any corrupt behavior, you become an enemy, and you will be tagged with trajectory or track remarks as a bad person. This practice of incompetent leadership has deprived development since resources meant for development get diverted for personal gain at the expense of the government. If one is not sympathetic to their incompetent practices, they ignorantly tag him or her as an opposition or enemy. This dishonest normalization has made the rich richer because they benefit from dishonesty and the poor poorer because they have nothing to bribe the system.

• The enemy of impatience and impetuosity. There is another culture of impatience among the leaders. They easily get angry, at least provocations. They turn their impatience into a hasty hate or loathing. Their willful impatience is their strategy to dominate over another or to have control over another. They continue expressing their worthless lifeclasss of intolerance, displeasure, and annoyance as baits to gain control for personal interest. The enemy is within.

• The enemy of hate. The enemy of hate is the enemy of anger, dejections, and personal traditions or personal interests. There is gross ignorance of the love for lives, environments, and progress. They pull themselves down progressively, destroy their environment, and whoever tries to make it better becomes a target for diabolic hate. Dejections bleeds evil thoughts, and personal tradition fulfills only personal interest at the cost of national interest for national development.

• The enemy of arrogance. They have built themselves misconceptions about life by clothing their mind that certain classes of people are better than others. They, therefore, develop their sell-aggrandizement. They act or practice on personal tradition or mentality by enhancing or exaggerating one's own importance, power, or reputation. This act of making oneself more powerful and wealthier than others is their ruthless goal.

• The enemy of lawlessness and disobedience. Some are insolent and have no respect for the laws. Some people are above the laws, so favoritism and a form of discrimination called tribalism is the common practice even among the houses of God in Africa.

Leading African Leaders into Development

African leaders are great people who believe unity is strength, yet they hardly unite to build up united vision for Africa. There is a very nice story in Africa about Ubuntu. It teaches unity, living by purpose, unselfishness, and teamwork. An anthropologist proposed a game to be played by African tribal children. He placed a basket of sweets near a tree and made the children stand one thousand feet away. By the sound of a whistle, any child who reaches the basket first would get all the sweets in that basket. When the whistle was sounded, the amazing thing was that the children held each other's hands, ran together, got to the basket together, and shared the sweets equally among themselves and ate their sweets together with joy. The anthropologist was amazed, so he asked them why they did what they have done, and they all shouted “Ubuntu,” which means “how can one be happy when others are sorrowful.” Ubuntu in their language or dialect means “I am because we are.” Ubuntu is the language of competent leadership: I lead because you are my followers. Ubuntu is the power of having the heart and passion for others' development. Remember that the backbone of your leadership is the behavior of Ubuntu to love what you do, a service to uplift others up, and lifeclass to create practical vision to promote better development or growth.

• Stop the recklessness. It's true that like the Akufo Addo leadership, the minister of finance is benefiting from the loans that Ghana keeps borrowing. This is reckless leadership behavior. When members of parliament demand huge ex gratia, extra vehicles, extra allowances, and extra benefits, ask yourself what extra policies or extra systems have they made to improve extra water supply, extra energy supply, extra food production, extra food preservation facilities, extra technological development, extra health care, and extra road network. Imagine what the ex-gratia put together can build in the country. Do the leaders understand leadership? Leadership is not about “self-gain-ship.” Ghana armed forces put together cannot stand ten minutes in a war with Ohio Navy Reserve unit of the United States armed forces. Are their leaders making extra efforts by creating extra vision to equip them on made in Ghana weaponry? Leadership means accomplishing extra benefits and extra expansions for the country and the people. If there are about 240 MPs in the country and they are not able to help the systems, what then is their need for the country?

• Stop greediness. The word greedy or being greedy means being hungry for something, and to the leaders, they are hungry to satisfy their ego at the expense of their roles as leaders to help improve the lives of those they serve. Remember that greed is not a factor for development and not a quality of competent leadership; without resistance to greediness, you will never be satisfied enough and to develop your area. Reason with experts for how to develop practical passion for development in either organization or in a nation. Leadership means building up hope not hopelessness.

• Create wisdom to development. Team leaders should have quality time to discuss visions that can be practical to enhance developments. Every act of development we see around emanates from a clear vision. It's okay to seek knowledge to understand and to live with the attitudes to develop others and systems. Leadership is not about education; it's about vision manifestations or applications. The universe has no rule as to who should develop. Black leadership should stop running aimlessly in what is practiced as four-year democratic elections. It's a useless democratic policy. Leaders in Africa must be still for a while for twenty to thirty years without any national elections except the demise of a leader and the need to replace another and search and research on the practical ways they can take the country to a specific level of development. Leadership should still mean development.

• Change from negative and bad application of the mind. The mind of Black leadership in black continent is below reasoning. Your citizens are poor. They are admitted to hospitals without mosquito nets. The road networks are too bad, the currency keeps depreciating, the energy or electricity supply is off and on, water supply is rationalized, the food productions are limited supply, food preservation is scarce, educational facilities are outmoded, police keep taking money from the drivers, vehicle importations duties are too high; when the price of crude oil goes up a little, their citizens increase the prices of their goods at will. With bad roads and other challenges, politicians are lavishly building, partying, and can't spend moment to create a vision to get practical artifacts done to improve the lives and the systems.

• Leave a living legacy. Sometimes, I weep bitterly when I see the manner people get into leadership positions and act like jokers or junkies without producing any practical results. Leaders are vision creators and must also be vision accomplishers. They must be committed to witness improvement in organizations and the lives of the people they serve. Leaders in Africa should wake up to realizing visions to improve lives. Must have purpose and plan with actions to see to it that during your leadership, the road networks have improved, farmers no longer rely on cutlasses and hoes, food production has increased, food preservation is in effects, and jobs have been created to get the youth into employment. When I see that leaders can't initiate any means to solve any problem and leaving their communities in low and below poverty, I wonder if they understand the term coded as leadership.

• Commit yourself to serving others. It's no doubt that education gets people knowledge to understand leadership as an obligation to live and to serve the people better. The leadership we have in Ghana are not committed to changing anything better. They don't care how to care for the people they serve. One member of parliament named Hon. Kennedy Agyapong has said clearly that the politicians are thieves in Ghanian political leadership. Thieves? Yes. If so, they are. Then are you worrying to see development in the country? No. According to Bishop Samuel K. Mensah, they ascend to leadership position to robe and rape the nation. This means Africa and Ghana will be poor forever if commitment is not invested into serving others and improving systems.

• Jump into research and innovative thinking. Lack of technology and research will cripple the continent into adverse poverty. The demand for computer chips is continuing to grow as we become more and more reliant on technology. So we can expect in the future chip manufacturing technology to be able to produce chips with much higher accuracy, precision, and complexity than ever before. Leadership should have the eyes to create a better tomorrow for organizations and country.

• Decolonize the education system. We are blindly and blatantly or unashamedly admitting or believing and saying we don't have resources, skills, and the machinery. If we don't have such knowledge and resources, why don't we stop the education for our students? The weakest link is the education of engineers who can't produce anything; the education is wasteful and useless. Leaders in Africa should not lament about the problems but to critically research into producing solutions. Retire your professors and get into the countries with professors from China, America, and Germany to give out engineering solutions to the countries' needs. Buy the great machineries and bring in the experts to work them out with the local African people to get the skills to transform the countries and the people.

• Decolonize the African thinking. The quality of the mind is to produce a solution. Listen to the words of Doctor Maponga, “When the face is beautiful and the software package is not working, why do we not suffer? When the country is beautiful and the thinking of the country is not right, the resources of the country are always at a mistake. Our business is to change the human software, that is the quality of thinking.” Use the loan to build up artefacts that can be beneficial to the people for decades. Use the quality of your mind to create solutions for the people. Stop seeking shelter from IMF and World Bank because they are rather economically dead traps. The road to organizational development and national growth passes through you and your vision.

• Restructure. When the leadership in the organization or a country is not visualizing any practical vision, such leadership must be restructured. The leadership called senators in the United States are useful because they live to serve their people to live better. In the case of Ghanaian MPs, what benefits have the various constituencies gained from them? The people they serve are still poor, roads are bad, clean water is rationed, and energy is never 24-7. Do Ghanaians still need such PMs? No. Are they solving Ghanaian problems? No. Leadership should include the traditional leaders to help the checks and balances systems.

• Rearrange. Rule of man system was replaced by the rule of law to change the culture of rigidity, inequality, and injustice. That rule of man was jungle practices where people survive by strength. The mentality was bad and was replaced by the rule of law to promote morality, honesty, and equality. With this rule of law, the behavior is not better in leadership. A culture of scheming, a culture of corruption, and a culture of being smart on another like jungle practices. When leadership is not beneficial to those served or the leadership-citizenry relationship is not revolving on trust, rearrangement is needed to change them. For example, in Ghana, the citizens have no trust in their lawyers and judges. If so, can the system be rearranged? Yes. The court trust must be reestablished, and the constitution reevaluated or reexamined to let leadership be accountable for their actions that provide practical results to the people being served.

• Reorganize. Professor Steve H. Hanke of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, United States, pegged Ghana's inflation at 77 percent for the month of July 2022. This is a huge jump from the 31.7 percent rate announced by the Ghana Statistical Service. The professor's dashboard recorded the inflation of eighteen countries with Zimbabwe coming top with a rate of 479 percent, the highest rate on the African continent. This has given a signal that African leadership does not practice the core meaning of leadership as to improve lives and systems. Was it a mistake or wrong when Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana said that Black man can rule his own country whiles it has become impossible? If politically, economically, or culturally it is impossible that African leadership is incompetent and cannot improve systems to change the lives of their people, then should African leadership be changed or reorganized? Yes. It must be reorganized.

• Reform. Reformation is important because it moves ideology from misunderstanding and misapprehension to realities. Ghanaian political leaders and systems are not working to improve the lives and systems in the country. It is mirroring of vicious cycle of poverty. It is true that some traditional leaders had some unscientific policies and never helpful to improving lives because of lack of understanding of the concept of leadership. The concept of leadership as a duty to create vision to serve the people is not what Ghanaian leadership is practiced. The meaning and practices of leadership in Ghana must be taught to all the rank and file of leadership as a sacrificial commitment to serve the people but not to be served. To have plans and policies in place to help the people live better. When there is no unity of purpose in an organization or in a country's leadership, a reformation is needed to direct vision into a better destination. Ghana needs reform to include the chiefs into politics. If the chiefs leave everything in the hands of the politicians, Ghana will remain poor. Traditional leaders should also see themselves as leaders and abide by the definition of leadership as a service to improve the lives of people one serves and to improve the systems as a leader of vision. All the traditional leaders should unite and work out vision together to get great things achieved to improve the lives of the people, alleviate the poverty, and create jobs for the people.

• Readjust. Leadership matters as long as development is concerned. When things are not moving in the right direction because of bad leadership, it means any efforts directed to such are not going to get to a better destination. This means when leadership drifts from development and creating utilitarian services to have national resources being shared or distributed equally but only pivoted on selfish interest, it is necessary to make changes. One of the ways to make changes is called readjusting or readapting. In most organizations or countries, sometimes when incompetent leaders dominate and things mess up, the best management can do is to readjust the strategies, leadership, and methods to prevent further failures. Avoid the timidity and wake up for technological advancement.

• Stop the selfishness. Use your crafty mindset, skills, and resources to develop the country. The Ghanaian populace keep pointing to the political leaders that they are selfish, evil, with diabolic leadership attitudes, but the political leaders don't understand why such words are accorded to their actions. There are problems with lack of understanding and communication. The country is dead to corruption, selfish ambitions, power drunk, and the future of the citizens remains hopeless. For Ghana to awake into development, political leaders should not be paid more than four times the salary of a Ghanaian teacher fresh from college. If a fresh teacher's salary is 2,500gh cedis, political leaders should be paid 10,000gh cedis. I did an interview about African development, and four respondents made my interview a very heartbreaking or sorrowful. They made me surprised and self-embarrassed. I was surprised because I wondered how they could talk bad about such leadership culture in Africa. I was embarrassed, offended, and dispirited because I did understand it as deliberate insults. I asked myself, Did I fall in the hands of the wrong persons? You, too, shouldn't be offended because opinion is like a nose, everyone has one, and we are not looking at insults but lessons to enhance development. Let me share with you.

The first respondent wrote a question instead of answering. He wrote, “Why, are African Black leaders blind to development in Africa?” The second respondent wrote, “Are you sure your leaders and political leaders in Africa understand the term leadership and have love or concern for ordinary people apart from self?” The third respondent wrote, “Are your people okay to lead without transforming the lives and systems?” He further wrote, “Are they also created in the image of God, in the likeness of God, in the behavior of God, in the creative nature of God, in the intelligence of God?” He queried further, “Which God? Or the Bible is not true about the creation of human in the creative image of God, or a different God created such Ghanaian leaders?” The fourth respondent wrote, “Do your people or leaders have eyes, hands, heads, and senses to hear, see, find, search, research, discover, create, and improve lives and systems and stop that nonsense of corruption and disunity in this twenty-first century or whom are they waiting for? In my curiosity, I inquired for further knowledge. Look at their answers postulated critically.

The Blindness or Sightlessness to Ghanaian Development

a. They are blind to development, but they are not aware. Their politicians and political leaders have no realistic vision to accomplish than their selfish goal to win the next election. They loot, rape, and rob the country of the money meant for development. They leave their roads unattended; lack of water supply and energy supplied has been unstable which is locally termed as “doomsolization.” The president doesn't know the vision for the country for the next four years. The other MPs and MCEs don't know how their various constituencies will become in the next five years because there are no set plans for development by such leaders. They have no clue that leadership is an opportunity to act on practical visions to improve systems for today and the next generation. The government should keep the ex-gratia money for building factories or making quality roads.

b. They are blind to development because their focus is on becoming self-rich against national development. Most of their politicians have been in such leadership positions for years, but no single company has been established in their constituency. Are they now going to be leaders to see to it that leadership means development to change the systems, lives, and poverty of the people they serve? When? Any mass food production and preservation in their area of leadership or localities? Are they superrich? Yes. They are superrich. The leaders boast of houses they have built in their country and those houses they have bought abroad, drivers who drive them, ex gratia, cars called V8 that they have acquired, and dollars they have in their various accounts. It has been known that the more Ghana borrows money, the more the minister of finance gets richer. Understand that things are not going on well as leaders. Seek feedback from your followers and other experts. Pay attention to any medium of communication and all insults meted out on you if and only if your leadership doesn't bear fruitful results to transform lives, systems, and the citizens are becoming poorer, roads becoming death traps, crime rates escalating, and nation roaming to IMF and being tagged as international beggar for loans. Lead to critically search for ways to bail your people out of their poverty plights and dilemmas or predicaments. The politicians in Ghana are called Honorables. I walked to one MCE office and the very road to the office disturbed my imagination why they are called Honorables. Honorable in what? Honorable in corruption or in development? Honorable in selfish interest or honorable in national development?

c. They are blind to development because their attitude is to shift blames on others, not to research and find solutions to fix problems. The two political failures like President Nana Addo of NPP will blame Mahama of NDC and NDC will blame the NPP. That is their leadership culture, vision, and game. The citizens are aware that such leaders are politically misleading, but it's a culture, so it continues unabated. They have taken the citizens for granted. Poverty has become their legacy. They don't leave their citizens with industries but severe poverty. They lead citizens into severe poverty and never will they solve problems leading to development. My uncle had a son with a PhD, but the condition of my uncle was too bad. I visited him and he said look at the deplorable, lamentable, and condemnable condition of my life. My son has a PhD but such a PhD is useless because it does not help change lives for the better. A PhD holder who cannot even change the paint in my room is a useless acquisition.

d. They are blind to development because they are incompetent. Incompetent leaders have no clue to development. They feel busy robbing the country of any money for national development. They need money to monetize electorates during elections. Their goal is to win the next election, but not to improve the next generation. They look busy but they are not busy creatively and economically. They even oppose the idea and see vision as mirage or delusion. Leaders must hold sessions with their followers to discuss the ways to create a plan for development. Seek advice and directions from your followers, not your tribemates or party affiliates. Like J. F. Kennedy would say, “Let's be committed to put a man on the moon.” When will a Ghanaian leader come up with a vision even to transform the way they open their cocoa pods with a machine instead of the outmoded method or use of cutlasses?

e. They are blind to development because they don't live on national vision but on selfish passion. Their unaware belief is that they will live forever so they must amass wealth, build houses here and there, find all means to be rich, and send their children abroad so they can survive with time. Competent leadership thinks about creating a better future for the next generation. Competent leaders focus on the change that will help billions of their people, not self. They know they will live to die, so they see it needless to steal from the company or government. They are not smart to cheat but smart to promoting development to benefit their people.

f. They are blind to development because they don't care about the lives and systems for the next generation. If I become a president or a political leader and I build houses in my hometown or buy luxurious or expensive houses in the United States and drive in V8 vehicles without accomplishing any set vision to improve roads, hospitals, water supply, mass food production, effective food preservation facilities, and improving the security of the citizens, I am a useless leader. I need to visit ants to learn the meaning of leadership from such tiny creatures. Yams and other crops like plantains get rot in Ghana seasonally and no one bothers to create a dream to divert the ex-gratia money to build food preservation facilities like what Publix company does in the United States.

g. They are blind to development because their intentions are evil. They award road construction to contractors conditionally such that the fixed money to be used to get the road done better and durable drains into politicians' accounts. Ask any political leader if their road to their various offices of administration is motorable. Whenever a road construction is awarded to a contractor, the minister and the MCE/DCE drain 10 percent off each of that money meant for development. That behavior of draining money from contractors doesn't help in building durable roads. That is one of the reasons the durability of most roads in Ghana is six years while in the United States the durability is one hundred and sixty years, following twenty-five to thirty-five years of intensive inspection to fix any detected damage. When the amount has been agreed on fixing a road, leaders should hold session on how durable they can have the road done but not how to get their share of the money. All mindsets should be directed to fixing what needs to be done in developing the country, not self and not how much political leaders should get from it. Ghanaians will be poor if money meant for building roads are sluiced or flooded into personal accounts.

h. They are blind to development because their leadership class and understanding is not to promote development. African's understanding and practices of leadership is far opposite that of the advanced countries. A leader in Africa or Ghana is a god to be worshipped but not a human to assume office and serve the people. They become deities to demand worship by their worth-like cars called V8 or their houses and by their dollar accounts. This makes the political leaders find all means to acquire such elements at all costs. Those who cannot find any means end up killing children and women for rituals to be rich and powerful. A nurse was killed in Mankessim, a town near Cape coast in Ghana, for personal rituals. They want quick money without working for it but killing someone for it. How possible will their countries develop when their goal is to get ahead in social status to be worshipped but not to develop the country? This means when politicians can't meet their self-aggrandizement demands, he or she has no vision to accomplish anything to benefit the country. They would beautifully steal the money meant for roads or they would parade themselves as international beggars always roaming to IMF for loans so they can get something out of the loan to satisfy their selfish goals. With such worthless behavior, are you expecting development in Ghana? What development? The chiefs and political leaders should see themselves as the stewards of the people by holding sessions to discuss with their citizens what directions their areas or the country should take and to develop.

i. They are blind to development because their understanding about how systems work is unreached. They talk about laws in Ghana, but no one law points to ensure development. All their laws and culturally created ways of life are total deviation to development. This will make the hopelessness of the future of Ghana a perpetual pandemic or deadly disease. Leaders must think about the plight of their people and stop ignoring their national responsibilities.

Specific Advice to Building Up Competent Leaders

Leaders lead with goal-oriented. Your leadership reveals who you are as good, bad, corrupt, competent, or incompetent. Leadership, being defined as the act of providing services to improve the company, systems, and the lives of people you serve, demands the leader's preparedness to have vision and strategic plans to initiate and act positively and responsibly to be development oriented. It is about the company-centered not self-centered, about positive change-oriented not selfish promotions. Leaders should wholeheartedly sacrifice and be committed to generate the power to make differences in the development of their companies and improvement of the lives of those they serve. The following are the specifics of what leaders should behave, do, and practice in their respective areas of control and influence.

• Be a patriotic leader for growth and development. Live to have the development of your people, organization, and country at heart and never be a despiser of your own people, firm, or country. Don't hate your organization or country and punish her with corruption or laziness. The primary heritage of a patriotic leader is to practice selfless leadership. Patriotic leadership states that being blind to corruption is not a sign of patriotism, but a sign of endorsing corruption and other social vices. Corruption has not been a blessing for anyone in building up a country or organization. Have an active loving heart for the progress and growth of your company or country in the next decade or generation.

• Have purpose for your leadership. The goal of the people or companies choosing leaders is for their lives or systems to be transformed by the leaders' positive and selfless services. The people choose leaders with the goal of having leaders who understand leadership as the act of serving the people and actualizing national or company's vision. Leadership is not like the pessimist complaining about the pains of the wound but about the optimist providing healing and the comfortability to the excruciating sore. True leadership is not about the enrichment of the leaders but the benefit to the followers. Let the purpose of your leadership be to improve the lives of all the people you serve and not really the goal to improve tribesmen.

• Be an organized leader, not a disorganized one. Have the vision and readiness of mind to make positive changes happen to move the company to a different but better standard and to change the lives of everyone you serve. Bad leadership will never result in efficient performance, but it is equal to poor performance and poverty on the part of the people you serve. When bad leaders are chosen to replace bad leaders, it means understanding leadership is not common with common people. The poverty and corruption and armed robbery in a country are the harvesting of the fruits of the bad leadership. The definition and application of leadership is different in Africa. It's the right opposite of what's in the books. Leadership means leaders lead their followers to accomplish a set vision. We even have people in Ghana who call themselves as the royal of so and so. If you are royal, what about the others? You see the beginning of discrimination and self-seeking mindsets? A leader must be well organized to help lift everyone up to a better living.

• Lead by your integrity, not by your self-wants. Leadership should not be misinterpreted as services to self-aggrandizement, selfish wants, or greediness of your personal wants. Your struggle to lead must have the goal to improve the lives of the followers. Operative leaders are not blaming-minded; they're solution-minded. A good leader should aim at creating solutions and not being part of the problem. Be truthful to the services you render to people. It is better to lead with the policies and principles to promote the comfortability of the people than aiming at self-beneficiary.

• Lead with self-identity. Know who you are and what you have to offer for your generation or organization. You are a leader with every possibility to use your mind to create a solution to help develop the company. You are one of the great people that your company or world is looking up to for total transformation. In the Ghanaian national pledge, it says, “Arise Ghana youth for your country, the nation demands your devotion.” Yes, your company demands your devotion as a competent leader. The employees demand your initiation of practical vision and strategies. The nation now demands your creative mind, your commitment, your patriotism, your positive attitudes, and your act of working out practical visions to improve the lives of the people.

• Lead with action. An action leader is an activated leader, meaning you live by doing and changing things to improve the systems, infrastructure, and the lives of the people you serve. Rwanda has got an action leader called Paul Kagame. He is not only a political leader but a leader in politics. Political leaders think about the next election, but leaders in politics think about the next generation. He is actively building the country for the citizens to live hopefully. He is pursuing an unselfish goal to improve the lives of the people he is serving. He is making for the first time made in Africa smartphone in Rwanda. He has the action mind to get positive things done. I respectfully describe him as the master of reinvention. Leading with action means you create policies and measures to promote equality, women empowerment, promotion of new technology, and environmental protection. If the thinking of creating positive changes of possibilities to improve the lives of his people are missing in one's leadership, it means such leaders have no competent leadership blood or skills. Action-minded leaders are ambitious, committed, and see the sustenance of the future lives of the people as most needful.

• Lead with digitalized and digitized intelligence. Digitization, and digitalization go hand in hand to transform organizations into digital enterprises, allowing for more agility and performance improvements. Digitization transforms information from a physical format to a digital version while digitalization is the practice of utilizing technology to enhance corporate processes. In a nutshell, digitization relates to information, whereas digitalization relates to processes. The advancement in intelligence in computerized leadership needs every leader's attention and readiness. As I said earlier, competent leaders are the brain behind the innovation, creativity, and advancement in technology that are creating a speedy wave into the future where things will be easier than before. As we investigate changing lives and systems today and vitally the future, leaders are those who use their intelligence to enhance digitalized and digitized revolution. The robotic knowledge of higher use or application of human mind. The possible means to enhance the demand and supply and the mindsets or attitudes of resonating the digitalization digitization of industries.

• Lead with a passion to change to digitization and digitalization. The world is under speedy technological evolution or change with new advancements resulting in the application of the mind of human called the competent mind. Some leaders are seriously busy researching into finding the possible ways to make life and system better and easier. In some other parts of our world, while some people have identified themselves as competent leaders to lead the creation of better results, others busily identified themselves as perfect consumers to wait and demand supply. Don't get confused because competent leadership is the use of the mind to produce practical, positive, and possible products or results.

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