The Reward

It has been argued with abiding clarity in well-informed circles that the offer of selfless service in whatever context is a bold mark of the finest qualities of effective and productive leadership. The increasing rarity of this driver of wholesome leadership, which provides the basis for inclusive prosperity and soundness in the socio-political and economic fabric of communities and indeed, nations should therefore, motivate a desire; it is the compelling desire to evolve strategies for provoking, nurturing and perpetuating the virtue of self-effacing commitment to the needs of man in a social context, for instance.

“Societies are not organized on God-centered humane principles. They are rather, in total and unrepentant disobedience and outright rebellion. They are not capable of even emphasizing the survival of the whole as they are unabashedly pursuing the survival and perpetuation of the part without due regard to the whole.”(from Burdens of A Country, by Ozioma Ezeogu).

Against this backdrop, therefore, there is little wonder why most modern societies are grossly bereft of effective and productive. And since the species of leadership which would lift the people out of want and destitution can only come from selfless service and not, “the private appropriation of the public realm…”(Prof. Claude Ake), it has been a tall order over time to source what we have often described as entrepreneurial leadership…

This short narrative, The Reward, is therefore typical; it is all about cultivating, nurturing and propagating essential paradigm-sets for the evolution of leaders who are equipped to take their communities to the next level of profitable experience…