The Mindset Of A Corrupt Leader (Part II)

21.4.12

What was their thinking like before leadership was handed to them?

To understand the thinking of a man destined for leadership is undertaking to explain the workings of the brain. ‘If we understand the brain, we will understand both its capacities and its limits for thought, emotions, reasoning, love and every other aspect of human life,” said Norman Weinberger, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine. The brain of man so closely associated with the mind of man that it is practically impossible to explain them separately.

The very nature of man makes him equipped to take decision that is tilted towards wrong than evil or good depending on what he chooses to do. So what kind of thinking does this fellow have that brought the opportunity to get into leadership position his way?

One of the strongest drives that propelled man to go out of his way to seek a greater good is the mindset acquired when pursuing a cause, a quest; nothing brings men quickly to leadership than pursuing a cause. A quest once conceptualizes in the heart and mind of a person immediately takes on a figure of life form literally. The Cause accelerates both desire and ambition, it creates a blazing longing to make something worthwhile (The Cause) to take place, it makes the you want to be better than what you are presently or to create a better future.

A potential leader must go beyond desire to a point of having a belief that that desire can be achieved, now even if that Cause is not yet apparent at this stage of total belief I must say at this stage that the desire will eventually come to being. The responsibility to be responsible lies within the leader and a leader that have not made a commitment to do the right thing guided by the golden rule ‘Do unto others what you want them to do unto you’ before gaining power will find himself literally swept over and over powered by the corruption that power brings in the heart of depraved man.

Commitment device: Setting a commitment device is absolute necessity if leadership will be able to control power rather than being controlled by it. How? Take a decision today before getting into a place of power to use it for common good and not for selfish purposes so that you can be able to have the will to resist the temptation that comes along with power, that’s why Democracy have stood the test of time because this system of leadership distributes power and authority bringing about check and balance.

The leader personally believe and advocate for hard work, to achieve and to overcome various difficulties and get everyone thinking about the bigger picture as well as see challenges as learning opportunities. The world around us is just the perfect reflection of our inner world. So what the leaders creates is an expression of what the leader represents.

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1. Mindset Of A Leader (The first part)

 
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The Mindset Of A Corrupt Leader

20.4.12

Corruption is the greatest treat of sound leadership. Africa is self sufficient and self sustaining. Corruption has made countries unable to cater for its citizens. In the early years of the American Revolution when leaders emerged from among the ordinary folks, when the welfare of the people was the driving force, when their heart beat reverberated with compassion for the common man and his predicament; these leaders were perceived as divine. However, when leadership anywhere begin to take advantage of their roles as leaders, when the noble ideals of leaderships are sacrificed on the altar of self assertion, things can quickly begin to fall apart.

You may ask?

• What trait did they possess that made them eligible for leadership?
• What was their thinking like before leadership was handed to them? 
• What single thing or action brought about the sudden collapse of these note worthy task? 
• Why did they change focus? 

What trait did they possess that made them eligible for leadership? 

Knowledge alone is not guarantee for leadership but it place a great roll in this regard; as it is remarked ‘…if you aren’t informed, you get deformed…’ You know for sure that a leader does not just fall from the sky; they were all born and grow up in a neighborhood like every other person. They have ordinary parents like you and I. some of them had very horrible childhood, a past they hate to remember. And as they grow and mature they pick up certain character that helps them to reason independently from others and begin to see things apart from the crowed.

They tend to develop poise such that they don’t get easily put off balance by sudden occurrences rather remain calm and fashion ways out of any given challenge. They have a great capacity to accommodate different shades of opinion and are not upset about divergent views; they seem to forgive often and easily and are compassionate towards others.

They are motivated to dream of a change, a better life for others for their world, they believe in this dream so much that they are willing to stake all to put the dream across. Leaders are dreamers and great leaders are great dreamers.

They have an eye for opportunity though not opportunist; they take opportunity with both hands not primarily for self but for the sake of others. The passion they have for their dream alone is enough persuasion for others to follow.

They may not be experts in rhetoric speeches but the compassion and dept in their voice elicits immediate response and actions if required.

They are in the for-front of execution and implementation of their dreams, their hearts are their words and their word is their life.

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1. The Mindset Of A Corrupt Leader (Part II) What was their thinking like before leadership was handed to them?
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Dataminr to collaborate with Twitter in providing early warning system

11.4.12

Dataminr has developed a Twitter based indicator that can provide companies with initial warning systems for breaking-news and emerging trends. Organizations get the signals in real-time, often in advance of conventional news, alerting them to industry-relevant information and significant happenings.

Dataminr can with the use of this system provide exclusive information about imminent happenings. Dataminr's accomplish this by processing Tweets across twitter network. Also, Dataminr also combine data from third party with takes the unique approach of merging Tweets over 340 million messages shared on Twitter daily, making this system one of its kind.

Twitter has granted full right to Dataminr to use its firehose. It is rumored that Dataminr system predicted the death of Osama Bin Laden.

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