LEAD YOURSELF

What is leadership really about?

To lead doesn't require you  be  the quintessence of proficiency; nor does it require you  be an idea box which keeps coming up with enigmatic ideas; nor does it require you to be  a people's man.

Thousands of books have been written about what the perfect leader is , and the qualities he possesses.

I believe , though, that the real deal has been overlooked.

Hey! - anyone can be a leader. Sit back and take a look at your life. You would realize you are a leader in something, in someway.
The recipe to  being a leader is simple; lead yourself. Start something and see it to the finish. Think a question and answer it. Sense a gap and close it.
Make a move. Take a step. Give a suggestion. Ask a question. Lead yourself - in every setting. 

Its simple , right? So now tell me, why are you not doing it?

Solve a real problem

Accumulating knowledge and information really amounts to nothing unless in the end you are solving a real problem.

As someone I know says; 'man, we are not reinventing the world. All the tools and information we need to solve a problem are available. So please dont waste your time thinking about a problem,thats already been solved.'

Solve a real problem right here - make a difference wherever you are.

Think about the tools you will need,if economics, then learn economics - set out to make a difference and then go on - and make a difference.

Dont waste your years gathering information and knowledge that will not help you solve any real problem. Trust me, any experience is not useful experience, unless you've set out to make a difference. Unless you've set out to close a gap you've seen.
This gap could be anything, across all the fields of study known and unknown to man.

It could be as simple as creating a more comfortable pillow or as enormous as creating a musical piece that makes people really happy - These are no real problems from where I stand, but thats the good thing. We all get to make a difference from wherever we stand.

In the end some will create more wants. Others will come close to satisfying some wants - and possibly end up creating more - but thats all good. The truth is we cant really put a cup over human wants; they are insatiable.

The commendable thing is doing something, and going the extra mile to at least see it to its finishing.

In the end the beautiful thing, is , you tried.

WE ARE COMING BACK

Our last post was on DECEMBER 13, 2011.  Since that time there has been a lot that we've been working on. I had barely taken time to think about what this blog meant essentially.
But no event is ever out of order. 

There are no sudden happenings in this world. There is a reason to every happening.
We've been long gone, working on other issues, but we are back.


Sammy Delali

Education and Culture

                Our culture slipping into the gutters      
 
The solution is not to try to get people to realize that our culture is slipping into the gutters. But to conceptualize a culture that the new Ghanaian will embrace. A new culture that reorients our way of thinking and reconstructs our attitude towards the world.
A sort of paradigm shift.

Education is not separate from culture . Education is rather an integral part of  culture. When education is separated from culture there is chaos.
Culture includes the customs,ideas and social behaviour of a society or a group of people. But its defined and determined by a very important factor and that is how a society wants to live.
Now sociology studies the structures , development and functioning of societies, And in retrospect ,societies that have lived centuries past or our own primitive societies will tell you  two things.
A society that knew what kind of life, its people should  lead always achieved great things and a society that didn’t know , always lost the  real essence of their culture.
An example of a society whose culture is slowly slipping away , is our society. Our culture is becoming a mediocre one, because its filled with too much borrowing. A little good from here, a little bad from here, we copy blindly, following fads.

I t is important we realize what it it we want and determine how we can get there.  Plato’s Republic shows an example of how first a country needs to know the kind of life they want to live.  And how they can construct their customs , beliefs  and etc  to make that life possible.
We need to realize culture is a creative enterprise, determined by the creative consciousness of its people.  In a recent discourse with friend she said and I quote;" Culture is the way of life people and in its dynamism it has no choice but to be creative. Otherwise there would be no distinctiveness among people . And a world without culture would absolutely monochromatic".
True, but we are forgetting to notice , we can consciously control the creative process. An example is what Lycurgus did with Sparta and what Plato's republic described.

The question where do we start?
We start with the integral part of culture; education.
In which modes and forms are educated through; mass media( TV, Radio,Journals,News Papers, Magazines), opinion leaders, community centres, schools.
We need a plan << a national policy>> of what life in this country should be and could be, then we work at it.

There is hope for tomorrow but we can only do something now. SO bit by bit, lets discuss how we can effect the change we all                 so want to see.
1.What kind of life do we want to live
2.How do we recreate the kind of culture we want
3.What kind of education should be given
4.How do we effectively create the Ghana we all drea of
We can only start now!