Posts filed under: Leadership

Pondering and processing… Power

How can powering the process happen without power in the process? While on the matter, maybe we should process the use of power as part of processing whose power it is and should be. When needing to hold on to […]

Pondering… Prayers for sanity

So it’s going to be three days of mourning the Freetown fuel tanker explosion dead with prayers as the main effort. And then what? I have no issues with prayer, but what happened to the idea that we must do […]

Inspiring Wisdom

Remembering General Colin Powell Some experts had mentioned Armageddon and advised it was mission impossible, but our commander insisted “it’s never too late to start saving lives” and asked “who would we be if we didn’t step into this and […]

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Pondering… Bystanding

Harassment of female professionals and politicians in Sierra Leone seems to have progressed into physical attacks against them. All this not long after activities at the top that were supposed to protect women from attitudes that saw them in ways […]

Pondering… the start of Sierra Leone’s Civil War – 23 March 1991

Mo Farah claiming another Olympic gold at the 2016 Rio games had a BBC commentator pointing out the British athlete shared his birthday with three other gold medal winning Britons – Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Steve Redgrave. They were […]

Pondering and wondering… the pandering, surrendering and shuddering.

People jumping ship while others seek refuge in false equivalents. See them; scrambling for “get out of jail cards” using the excuse they didn’t know or see what was never far from obvious. Alongside this, the deafening silence of many […]

Pondering… Leadership and Behaviour

Whatever the titles or positions – Monarch, President, Prime Minister, Chancellor, Taoiseach, First Minister, Governor, Mayor, Chief, religious leader, or community leaders – the COVID-19 pandemic has given students of leadership near unparalleled opportunity for like with like analysis and […]

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Pondering… blindness to the blindingly obvious

“People will always need to eat, sleep and s**t, and plans fail if planners forget or ignore that”. Blindingly obvious and drilled into me twenty-five years ago with an unforgettable bluntness. I add to that appreciation of two other certainties […]

Remember and Learning…

The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) incursion into Sierra Leone’s capital in the early hours of Wednesday 6th January 1999 must be remembered. However, remembering the invasion only for the death and destruction visited on the city feeds the risk of […]

Here we go again…

Sierra Leone! An administration leaves, their badness becomes the focus, and no effort goes into learning how their misdeeds were committed and enabled. The vindictive mode that seems to swing energies toward wanting to teach a lesson to the no […]

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