Olajide Hamzat

By Olajide Hamzat Time for a story. One woman stood still as she was ushered into the sprawling building where a short but crucial meeting will take place. This is not the first time the woman, mid-aged, dark-skinned and rotund…

By Olajide Hamzat Think of the five zones that made up Oyo State and the unique challenges each of them confronts and the kind of opportunities they each bring to the table. To effectively make change happen therefore, it is imperative…

By Olajide Hamzat Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, was how William Shakespeare described and defined leadership in Henry IV, Part 2. By this account, leadership comes with lots of responsibility, in addition to…

By Olajide Hamzat The desire for a new type of leadership that has the grace and the gut to solve complex problems with crystal clarity has increased over time. By definition and description, leaders are automatically expected…

By Hamzat Olajide The leadership of a thing is not for the faint hearted or lily livered. Apart from the enormity of sacrifice and commitment required at all time, one must also be able to create a vision that will reverberate…

By Olajide Hamzat To get things done on a massive and impressive scale, a whole of things revolve around leadership. From intentions, decisions to actions, a right leadership understand the stakes, mobilize and motivate people…

By Olajide Hamzat One of my favorite leadership books of all time was the one written by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky; two Harvard scholars with extensive works in medicine, law, politics, and academia. Titled Leadership on the line,…

By Olajide Hamzat As the dusk faded into a chilling night, a flicker of fluorescent street lights descend with magisterial mighty. In an instant, social and economic activities around the once dull and sleeping street suddenly…

By Olajide Hamzat Love is essential to the human existence and experience. As a verb and as a noun, love belongs to those rare words that straddled between two parts of speech. As a noun, it is a name and as a verb, it is an…

By Olajide Hamzat By all metrics, Amofin Beulah Adeoye, the legal luminary redefining leadership and philanthropy, stands out among his peers by an unmistakable margin. Thoughtful and reflective, Adeoye is a leader with the temperament…