Monday, 7 July 2014

Legacy

Henry Ford
On June 16, 1903, the world's fifth largest car maker was born. Though Henry Ford passed on many years back, Ford Motors has remained a market leader with generations of the family of Mr Ford controlling the business for 110 years.

In April, 1976 Steve Jobs, leading his friends began the now iconic Apple Computers noted for iPhone  and other related gadgets till date.

Back here, where is Osondu Motors, Utuk Transport, Concord Newspapers, Okada Air and the list is endless? .

The answer is located in a key leadership principle, the law of Legacy, which holds essentially that there is no success without a successor.

Elsewhere leaders make efforts to replicate themselves and plan for succession . In Nigeria enterprises are woven around individuals so that at their demise there businesses follow suit.
In this part of the world, talk of succession is viewed with distrust and is branded disloyalty.
However great leaders raise there successors while they are still alive, they want there ideas to  outlive them .
This is a call for all leaders to groom their successors as a mark of great leadership.

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