Why leave death in your trail when you can post a flourishing destiny for individuals, organisations or nations that you lead? To achieve the latter, especially in the corrupt world of today, we must look beyond the general leadership phenomenon. We must strategically seek those features that manifest upright discipline, dedication, and determination about a cause that goes far beyond our selfish interests and touches many lives positively. This is the lead for life agenda that I set out in this book. If ever the world needed anything fundamental, with the ongoing challenging moral and resource circumstances, it is this agenda and it is now. This book beams a searchlight on this most crucial issue for our century and seeks to arm all of us with those essentials that can position us to shift the pandemic of leadership failure around. Why wouldn't you enlist in this agenda?
How do you convince cynical organisations or nations which have spiraled down under unscrupulous (defiant and compliant) leadership brands that redemption is possible in an increasingly decadent world? Don't tell them. Show them! Using a live story, this book shows the essential factors that work together within the authentic and virtuous leadership paradigms to transform and indeed beautify any human entity, including organisations and nations. The plot of the main narrative of the book is located in an educational (university) setting; however, the applicability of its leadership insight is universal. Leadership is destiny. Everything rises, stands, and falls on it; but it is not as confusing, mysterious, or scary as many have held it up to be. You will find in this book discussions of the philosophies, behaviours and outcomes of various leadership paradigms that make the leadership phenomenon more accessible. The book also addresses the 'calling' dimension which forms the core of credibility for leading right. It illustrates with concrete examples how a leader can clarify a vision, set the true compass (values and principles) for upright operations, mobilise teams to develop a sense of ownership, get the job done according to specifications, leave lasting marks of global leadership on hearts - not just on sands of time, and then finish well (timely and in honour). With its down-to-earth portraits, the Audacity of Leading Right will challenge even the cynical or fatalist to embrace a radical redemptive agenda inherent specially in the virtuous leadership brand. How would you like to aim higher and righter as a transfigurational (beautifying) leader for your organisation or country? Check out this book.
How do leaders, particularly those operating in the authentic and virtuous leadership brands, communicate their visions or messages persuasively? Among several veritable tools, melody lines stand out for at least two significant reasons. One, they ease the burden of, or facilitate, the delivery of the leader's visions or messages. And, two, they carry within themselves the power to mobilise their receivers for action. I believe Reverend Reuben has used such melody lines to a great effect in the United Evangelical Church (formerly, Qua Iboe Church), National Worship Centre, Utako, Abuja Nigeria. In particular, it is evident that over the years he has delivered the gems of his weekly wisdom to the Church, using these lines. More significantly, these lines exude the aura of a person who spends quality time with God and draws from the resultant melody in his own heart to make his congregation look up to a hope and a future. This book is to acknowledge Reverend Reuben's effort in crafting melody lines - uniquely a leadership trait; and to celebrate him for that on the occasion of his induction as a Reverend. You will enhance your heart and skills to craft persuasive melody lines.
This book presents a critique of the traditional responses to youth crime by criminal justice agencies in Australia, UK, New Zealand, USA, Canada, and a vision of how these agencies could respond more effectively. The critique examines the ways in which traditional criminal justice approaches trap young people into, rather than turn them away from, a life of crime. The vision is for criminal justice agencies - police, courts, and corrections - to become more pro-active partners in society's efforts to guide young people towards becoming happy and productive citizens; for these agencies to focus less on the exercise of retributive powers and to embrace restorative approaches; and for agencies to develop a crime prevention role through partnership with community organisations. Author Paul Omaji argues against concentrating resources on the symptom when the underlying causes are within our intellectual grasp and amenable to effective criminal justice responses. Omaji demonstrates the capacity of criminal justice agencies to become constructive partners with community organisations in preventing youth crime and constructs ground rules for high impact partnerships.
This book presents a critique of the traditional responses to youth crime by criminal justice agencies in Australia, UK, New Zealand, USA, Canada, and a vision of how these agencies could respond more effectively. The critique examines the ways in which traditional criminal justice approaches trap young people into, rather than turn them away from, a life of crime. The vision is for criminal justice agencies - police, courts, and corrections - to become more pro-active partners in society's efforts to guide young people towards becoming happy and productive citizens; for these agencies to focus less on the exercise of retributive powers and to embrace restorative approaches; and for agencies to develop a crime prevention role through partnership with community organisations. Author Paul Omaji argues against concentrating resources on the symptom when the underlying causes are within our intellectual grasp and amenable to effective criminal justice responses. Omaji demonstrates the capacity of criminal justice agencies to become constructive partners with community organisations in preventing youth crime and constructs ground rules for high impact partnerships.
Although the school had perceived faulty parenting as the cause of misbehaviour at the Carnarvon Primary School, the evaluation found that more immediate factors such as transience of staff and lack of positive socialisation were the cause; includes recommendations for consolidating the improvement in social behaviour.
In 1991 Patrick Dodson called upon the Department for Community Services in Western Australia 'to examine why Aboriginal children are more susceptible to offending behaviour than their non-Aboriginal counterparts [and] to properly consider the socioeconomic and cultural matters in addressing the problem.' We have taken up this challenge.
This book opens from the viewpoint of a four year old child who sees his father leave to fight in World War II and how it affects him. After the war our family moves into a new subdivision made up of all manner of WW II vets. Our house neighbored a five acre dairy farm. When the farm owner dies, the widow makes a bad decision that causes an invasion of rats. After a battle with the rats, the widow begins boarding horses which we were allowed to ride in exchange for caring for them. Our family fell into hard times in the mid-50's, the house was sold, and a move took place to a rural town (Arnold, Mo). The move occurred at a time which placed the author in a unique historical event, the graduation of Fox High School's very first senior class. After Graduation the author served three years in the U.S. Army, twenty six months of it in Germany. He was in Germany when the Berlin Wall was built It was also while the author was in Germany that the he received Jesus Christ as Savior. This book goes on to show what a Radical and beautiful change that Jesus makes in the Author's life to give it meaning and purpose.
The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist. The first volume of this major biography breaks new ground. The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. Now his son, Paul Robeson Jr., traces the dramatic arc of his rise to fame, painting a definitive picture of Paul Robeson's formative years. His father was an escaped slave; his mother, a descendent of freedmen; and his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Eslanda Cardozo Goode. With a law degree from Columbia University; a professional football career; title roles in Eugene O'Neill's plays and in Shakespeare's Othello; and a concert career in America and Europe, Robeson dominated his era. This unprecedented biography reveals the depth of Robeson's cultural scholarship, explores the contradictions he bridged in his personal and political life, and describes his emergence as a symbol of the anticolonial and antifascist struggles. Filled with previously unpublished photographs and source materials from the private diaries and letters of Paul and Eslanda Robeson, this is the epic story of a forerunner who now stands as one of America's greatest heroes.
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