THE future is always ready and replete with possibilities as long as we prepare, plan and pursue for the best that we always dream for.
Africa is dogged by so many problems, but it has so many resources at its disposal. These are mental and natural resources. Africa should learn to be resourceful. A lot is happening and there is need for stoppage of war that had toil on our infrastructure and mental conditioning.
Young African people should derive lessons from our fathers both good and bad. There are things that have not worked; rather they have warped our future. At times it takes just ten minutes to destroy a thing, but it would take us tiresome and torrid decades to rebuild it up.
What Africa should be thinking of now:
Mentorship structures Young people can be groomed into leadership. What we need as young people it to afforded an opportunity to learn from other people that have made it.
As Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole we need to be mentored to understand that success does not just happen or fall from some unknown place, but it takes planning. We have had education that has not helped us to realise our dream as Africa.
At times we have filled our mind with the educational rhetoric and verbosity that we will never use in our life time. Education, as one person once said, it’s meant not to fill our empty mind, but to open our mind.
As a parachute, the mind works well when it is open. We need the pragmatism of business, entrepreneurship, country leadership.
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Exposure to other democracies Young leaders should be exposed to proper structures of leadership. Most of them always learn by trial and error. Why not expose them to what is already working? This will help at the succession time.
Anyone can be a successor, but not everyone is a good successor. In my new book, I have said, “passing the baton is important if the organisation is to survive after your death.
Vision should not be limited to your own lifetime and to perpetuate it, you have to impart it to others”. The question becomes: Who do we pass the baton to? There is need for investment into our young leaders through exposure.
What did not work will never work Africa should learn that, what did not work in the past is most likely not to work for the future. This has been said over and over again: if you use the same thing expecting a different result its insanity. Young leaders should be hungry to look for new solutions to our old problems. Be determined to see a better and a brighter Africa.
Servant leadership will tell you that as a leader I am never egocentric to see me, I and myself being at the top and all other wailing below under my autocratic, controlling and subjugating realm.
Servant leadership will tell you, I am doing what I am doing to empower and benefit my immediate community. Connotatively, Jesus had to say, “If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all,” (Mark 9:35).
There is more need for continued stimulating and forward thinking discussions on the theme. There was never a great time like this for Africa to restructure and redefine where we want to be. Otherwise we might be forever caught in round circles that are going nowhere.
For more tips and advices go to www.successlife.co.zw, WhatApp: 0772 581 918, e-mail: [email protected] Jonah Nyoni is an author, success coach and motivational speaker.
