Elvis C. Umez

Getting good leaders through an election selection protocol is almost not possible for establishing good leadeeship unless the system is designed in such a way that makes it impossible for its proponents to cheat and win the votes. The truth is: good leaders rarely win through the election selection protocol because real leaders are always and almost never liked by the masses, except in few cases. This explains why it looks as if good leaders have to persevere, play to the gallery or make alignments with others for their antecedents to be known. Popularity wins election. The more popular you are, the more likely that the selection process will choose you whether you are the leader or not. Nations and organisations who desire to be powerful must never use the election selection protocol for choosing their leaders, unless there is a preselection protocol that allows only leaders into the game. Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School of Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult

The system of selection for those who are leaders and/or capable of playing leadership roles in any organization is paramount. When the system is skewed, the leadership will also be skewed. It is like frying a bad egg and hoping to get a good omelette out of it. Bad egg will produce bad omelette. When we get the system of selection right, we will no longer be worried about leadership performance because only those who are capable will be given responsibilities and the output will be profound. What system of selection does your organisation use in the appointment or election of leaders? Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School of Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult

The value of education in leadership is to the degree that the pioneer leader succeeds at causing awareness and elightenment that bring about transformations in the lives of the players. For transformation to occur, awareness and enlightenment must not be mutually exclusive. Awareness is coming to terms with who and what you are, which can seen as the totality of your design while enlightenment is coming to terms with why you are who and what you are, which is the totality of your life's purpose. For any leadership to transit from point A to B, its players must be educated in order to be transformed into their ideal selves. Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School of Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult

Every leadership emanates from the templates built by the preexisting leadership. And for the success of the past to be sustained and maintained, the present must build upon the template from the previous, through which a new sail can be set. This template is the consolidated successes attained within time and space by the previous leadership. Setting a new sail requires innovative mindset bent on creativity, which leads into crossing the "T's" and dotting the "I's" that were missed by the previous leadership. This is not by any means copy and paste, but a deliberate effort to improve upon what is left behind. What's your leadership template? Are you setting your own sail, or are you copying someone else's? Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School of Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult

The essence of leadership is continuity such that the poineer leader endeavours to raise people to continue from where he or she stops thereby forming an endless ripple effect from one generation to another. Hence, the relevance of any leadership is to the degree that it is able to outlive itself after having transformed the players into their ideal selves. After the leadership success is achieved, it automatically becomes a template for the followers to build upon. What this means is that when success is attained, it almost becomes obsolete for the next generation, which will require innovation and tweaking if contuinity is intended within their spheres of abilities. Are your intentions in leadership geared towards continuity? Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School of Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult

Cheating in leadership is possible. When you read leadership materials and decide to copy every methods and manners of approach in solving your leadership challenges, you just ended up cheating. It is more like a student copying answers from another student's paper in the examination of life and leadership with the hope of excelling. What you read in books are more like examples of what you will eventually encounter real-time. But you need to understand that your leadership challenges are tests to check whether you understand the concept as seen in those methods and manners of approach. Just like in every mathematical concept, which comes with examples, there are always exercises or problems to be solved. Don't cheat! Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult

I often hear many motivational speakers say that "readers are leaders," which to me are words of rhetorics who have resorted to making good use of rhymes. If I bother to ask, are they wiser than Solomon that says that "...regarding anything beyond this, dear friend, go easy. There’s no end to the publishing of books, and constant study wears you out so you’re no good for anything else." While I beg to differ, I need to point out that most of what we find in books as only experiences unique to the individuals who wrote them. Leadership challenges are unique to each individual according their design and purpose, which when put in proper perspective can be surmounted without even having to read a single book on leadership. Read books because you want to discover principles, never learning methods and manners of approach. Elvis C. Umez Leadership Consultant School of Leadership Development (SOLD) IDB Consult