The Difference Between Leadership And Management

The Difference between Leadership and Management - PAT UTOMI on Nuhu RibaduShare I was in Abuja today, and drove by the offices of NAFDAC and the EFCC and I was again struck by the dramatic change in the activities of these two national institution from what obtained just two years ago. What has happened at these two agencies is a very good example of the difference between Leadership and Management. A lot of people think that these two things are the same, but they are actually quite different. Leadership refers to the proactive siezing of new opportunities and breaking new bounds. It involves a decision to make a way where there was no way and charting a new course. It also involves the setting up of an efficient structure and a hierarchy that hitherto did not exist. leaders deliver results and the true test of leadership is influence-a true leader has influence and commands respect. Finally, a leader does not derive his influence because of his office, but because of what he/...Read the full article.

[katampe]

Interesting article, I am glad some still see in Nigeria.

Gradually, some are getting the message, Nuhu Ribadu and El Rufai did bring something to the table. Iweala and madam due process brought something substantial to the table and our rebranding matron indeed brought something to the table. Someday, those that know what the time is will take the country from charlatans, whether they are politicians or social/political commentators, both have contributed to ruining the country.

That Nigeria's debt is piling up again is not hard to figure out, still it is amazing we are letting this happen.The youths are not only not being incentivized, they are also being enslaved with intergenerational debt transfer that is unsustainable. How they pay that off when oil well dries up is the question. Funny politicians, funny people, funny country.

[edoji]

The human Rights Watch has again made it clear that President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, halfway through his presidential mandate, has undermined the country's foremost anti-corruption body, done little to rein in an abusive police force, and failed to address the root causes of the escalating crisis in the Niger Delta.

Human Rights Watch also said in a letter to Yar'Adua that there have been serious setbacks during the first two years in addressing Nigeria's chronic human rights problems and endemic corruption.

HRW added: "President Yar'Adua has had two years to show that he meant business when he promised to strengthen the rule of law, But instead, it is business as usual. The people responsible for the wholesale pillage of Nigeria's oil wealth and for arming Niger Delta militants have been left untouched, and the victims of police violence have seen no justice." - http://elombah.com/index.php?option=...tics&Itemid=37

But do our current crippled president care? HRW had earlier this year issued a damning criticism of the human right policies of this administration - http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119018.htm

But alas, we have an uncaring president (and what do you expect? A very sick man only cares about his health, what does it matter if millions are dying by his actions or inactions)

The issue assumes an alarming dimension when UMYA is gunning for a second term in office. By the time UMYA finishes dealing with Nigeria, we would discover we no longer have any country to call our own - having assumed refugee status in foreign lands - and we are all helpless to do anything about it!

Those who could influence events are simply too selfish to be bothered.

As for NAFDAC, what does it matter when they can all afford quality medical care and genuine medicine overseas, the rest can as well go to hell - the poor, poor masses!

A Legislator after reading El Rufai's epistle simply laughed, and accused El Rufai of monumental corruption. giving facts to buttress his argument untill I learnt that he was also a victim of El Rufai's battle against questionably acquired plots of land, then I understood

[S. Njokede]

Hyping upon the goodness of Dora Akuyili, Pat Utomi said: "She dared to shut down the bakery of a very influential ex first lady, and flexed muscles with the late Lamidi Adedibu in Ibadan and came out on top."

The first lady that Utomi is too shy to call by her name is Mariam Babagida, IBB´s wife. Is Utomi not in the know of the woman´s name or he has chosen not to name her because he, and Marian are native to the same Asaba axis? But he called the late Lamidi Adedibu by name! Why not Mariam? This is the same habit nearly all the print media exhibit in Nigeria. They´re damn to fearful to call big men and women plus celebrities by their names even when they know them inside-out. They most times, have good stories but in the end, they end up making their write-ups look like rumour. This, they do by hoarding the identities of the top dogs they write about. Print media in Nigeria and suchlike Utomi should open their eyes and bark like a dog when informing public - they shouldn´t pretend to be nice by holding back useful information of ace men and women.

If Utomi celebrates Ribabu, El-Rufia and co., he should as well celebrate President Yar´Adua because, it´s same bunch of people that cut corners to donate us Yar´Adua via backdoor.

There has to be distinction amid Utomi´s superstars. And, I wish to say that Ribadu stands out in that crowd. He has paid his due plenty: he´s an endangered specie like no other in that group. The only time I started fronting for Ribabu was when the extant regime started tearing him asunder for all the wrong reasons. Otherwise, during Obasanjo´s regime, I saw Ribadu as one of the spoilers of Nigeria. However, I think he has paid his due. I´d vote him for president any day, just like I´d do Buhari, Ebitu Ukiwe, Gani and Utomi. My core is Buhari.

Thank you Utomi for informing the public via your informative writings. This is where up pale Buhari and other political movers and shakers in Nigeria into underdogs. They hardly write anything. Thank you Pat Utomi.

[machiavelli]

@ Katampe,

Thank you for your comment. Your "funny politicians, funny people, funny country" is interesting.

But let me add to it, maybe it could also read: clueless politicians, clueless people, clueless commentators and and clueless country.

The analysis by our eminent Prof. Utomi has summarised quite a number of issues that tend to generate arguments on this site. And he has , rightly, given honour to whom it is due.

While some commentators are quick to castigate El'Rufai, we are waiting for the 'leaders' in the caliber of Ribadu and El'Rufai to emerge in this administration that is known more for policy reversals as if the 'managers' are suffering from somnambulism.

[Law Mefor]

Pro-o-o-f!!!

I am constrained to beg your pardon, prof. on some of the examples that have damned your piece.

Ribadu and El Rufai became laws unto themselves and lent credence, through their actions, to the general feeling that they were mere tools in Obj’s hands and therefore no good examples of leaders. I do not see them as exemplary leaders, too. El Rufai, in trying to clean up Abuja left behind tears and sorrows and blood. What is exemplary or wonderful about El Rufai reallocating hundreds of plots to himself and cronies? Any ***** in power can do it and I want to believe that Prof Utomi I beleive I know cannot rape his nation as El Rufai did. Doesn’t Professor Utomi that many Nigerians look up to for future leadership find such action antithetical to leadership and development?

Ribadu could not confront those in Obj’s good books and till he left office he couldn’t trace IBB’s loots though he could tell the world that his (IBB) ilk would never rule Nigeria again. He showed that ‘nobody is above the law’ except himself and Obasanjo. He became even bigger than the Police force that produced him and could cuff a serving IG that posed no danger and drag him on the ground before the watching world before the judges could do their job.

In fact, if El Rufai and Ribadu are our first eleven in leadership and development, then, the nation has no chance of developing in the nearest future. Their contributions were far more harmful than good and those imitating them or trumping them up as shining examples of leaders are only showing how pathetic our situation has become - roundly.

El Rufai particularly should face the charges of corrupt enrichment and fraud hanging on his neck. Hiding in the US to escape justice is not my idea of leadership and courage. He rendered thousands of Nigerians homeless and built not a single house in his 5-year stay in the FCT.

So, Prof. , I disagree with your examples because they contradict the tenets of leadership you espoused in your otherwise beautiful write-up! Any leader, even of a town union, that is not above board is not worth the name. And El Rufai is a proven fraud (from BPE to FCT) and Ribadu a mere showman. Their pretensions to leadership were just a camouflage to mask their real motives as arch enemies of the people and nation.

[akuluouno]

Sir,

The reason for this difference especially in Nigeria is due to the absence of a grundnorm that will order our daily activities on a national scale. Increasingly, patriotism and nationalism are becoming not only anachronistic but anathemas too.
Institutions ought to be greater than individuals who man them. The making of superstars out of Dora, Nuhu, and Nasir is symptomatic of this lack of a grundnorm while their sudden relapse to zero immediately after babacracy is symbolic of the contradictions and anachronisms prevalent in contemporary Nigerian nationalism and patriotism.

[aringaranso]

As much as people give Obasanjo credit for some high profile appointments,he also deserves to be discredited for appointing and foisiting the likes of Yar'adua on us.And thats the problem with the man,he does both good and bad at the same time,making his intentions always difficult to discern.

I really do not have any qualms with the removal of of El-Rufai,Soludo,Akunyili,Ribabu and co just that Yar'adua doesn't seem to appreciate the benefit of replacing quality with quality.

[irawad]

Here's a thought-provoking article, and I believe all the leaders mentioned in the article have planted good seed in the Nigerian soil. The seed must sprout, and in order for that to happen, Nigeria must produce its own Martin Luther King Jr - A leader behind whom well-meaning Nigerians can rally and march with their message to all the corners of the country. I believe we shall get there.

[Yankari]

Originally Posted by S. Njokede

The first lady that Utomi is too shy to call by her name is Mariam Babagida, IBB´s wife. Is Utomi not in the know of the woman´s name or he has chosen not to name her because he, and Marian are native to the same Asaba axis? .

Why ruin a nice piece with this tribal nonsense. Why does everything have to be seen firstly from a tribal perspective .

[nijalaw]

Originally Posted by S. Njokede

Hyping upon the goodness of Dora Akuyili, Pat Utomi said: "She dared to shut down the bakery of a very influential ex first lady, and flexed muscles with the late Lamidi Adedibu in Ibadan and came out on top."

The first lady that Utomi is too shy to call by her name is Mariam Babagida, IBB´s wife. Is Utomi not in the know of the woman´s name or he has chosen not to name her because he, and Marian are native to the same Asaba axis? But he called the late Lamidi Adedibu by name! Why not Mariam? This is the same habit nearly all the print media exhibit in Nigeria. They´re damn to fearful to call big men and women plus celebrities by their names even when they know them inside-out.

Hmmmmmm, Its safer to be wary of the living than the dead.
Maybe Pat does not want to go the way of the late DG.

[saemoenl]

Sir,

I want to comment on the different between your Campaign website and the future of your Presidential candidature.
Only in Nigeria that those that label themselves as democrats tends to wait when general election comes you will see them campaigning to see if they will win the electorates vote without a formidable campaigns manifestos.(but ur website has closed)
I believed you have tour so many western countries and see how opposition prepare themselves eventhough they failed general election, but they still fight to the last to see that their party emerged in the next election by organizing political meeting, adverts, rallies etc for the people to see the different between their views.
How can you convince the electorate without making your views and aspiration known to them by not engaging in talks, seminars with them not waiting when the election is around the corner.
I’m still hoping that you are still interested to run again come 2011 as a presidential candidate while the future of your contention is not known to the masses. It seems you have giving it up, but I thought Barack Obama victory should have given you the influence to fight to convince the Nigerian people what change can bring to our lives if only we plan for it.

[Kenn]

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People,

This is not one of Prof Utomi’s better contributions to the national development debate. It is a hagiographical piece that fails not only to properly distinguish between leadership and management, but also fails in pointing out their symmetry and symbiosis. Of course, in Nigeria, starved of heroes, it’s so easy to eulogise mere populists who fail in substantive delivery; but you would not think a man of Utomi’s intellect and worldly wisdom will praise people who substantively failed in government. It makes one begin to wonder whether Utomi has new ideas, because if he has to depend on a rebranding of the failed ideas of those he’s holding up here as exemplary leaders, I’m afraid we’ll need to look elsewhere for genuine national leadership.



CHEERS!

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[K_Station]

Thank you Prof. for another objective analysis. The truth is constant and for those bright lights from the former administration, they can rest assured that many in Nigeria appreciate their work.

[Dapxin]

The article starts well, and veered of course, in acute short-sightedness.

A leader, who deserves the respect he commands, and expects the credit he deserves, must NEVER truncate it all at the touchline.

If the Obasanjo the author rushes to congratulate - where it is not due - did not invert all that you could objectively offer him, by handing it off to a dead man, in the crudest of ways, we wouldn't be here. Least, we wont be here so helplessly.

As I say it, Obj! takes you 1m forward, and 99m backward; And merely screams how well you have moved.

Truth is, its a bloody 100metre movement in the reverse...thats never going to be creditworthy. Its pure con.

Author's differentials in leadership/management is interesting though; I am not sure of how well it stands against critical appraisal but the piece screams... it doesn't bite and I dare, it disappoints broadly.

ongoing Yaraduanism was predictable from planet pluto....

[Dapxin]

Originally Posted by Kenn

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People,

This is not one of Prof Utomi’s better contributions to the national development debate. It is a hagiographical piece that fails not only to properly distinguish between leadership and management, but also fails in pointing out their symmetry and symbiosis. Of course, in Nigeria, starved of heroes, it’s so easy to eulogise mere populists who fail in substantive delivery; but you would not think a man of Utomi’s intellect and worldly wisdom will praise people who substantively failed in government. It makes one begin to wonder whether Utomi has new ideas, because if he has to depend on a rebranding of the failed ideas of those he’s holding up here as exemplary leaders, I’m afraid we’ll need to look elsewhere for genuine national leadership.




CHEERS!

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You sum it up in someways that I have to agree with first time

[Yankari]

Disappointed. What a lazy and pedestrian article.
2 years to an election and this is the best the most credible opposition candidate can come up with.

Originally Posted by Robot

Ribadu never gave excuses for an inability to prosecute corruption[/B][/URL]

Were you deaf when he was making a song and dance about immunity of governors as a reason he couldnt prosecute? What stopped him from prosecuting their spouses, relatives and other accomplices. What about the auditor general, accountant general , bank staff etc, were they unaware or uninvolved?

[MrOneNaija]

DIMINISHING RETURNS

The commentary by Pat Utomi should be seen as philosophically dubious, intellectually mediocre and grammatically disastrous.

It seems that the more Utomi ventures into the arena of partisan Nigerian politics, at least at a rhetorical level, the more devastatingly one is confronted with the man's moral cum intellectual inadequacies. Invariably, the message to be gleaned is that of an over-rated individual with pretensions to political leadership.

Here is a man who has gleefully and in a sophomoric manner embraced the change mantra (à l'Obama) as a paradigm shift in the Nigerian socio-political theatre but who is unabashedly and for some yet to be explained reason advocating what is tantamount to the perpetuation of the status quo of impunity and recklessness as symbolized by the Ribadu, el-Rufai and Obasanjo gang.

A true leader, morally speaking, of course, is one that is not easily awed by inebriating propaganda to the extent that he begins to conjure up an exemplary identity for a political/administrative debacle like the one represented by the abdicating and profligate Obasanjo and his favorite acolytes.

Again, Mr. Utomi should let able hands craft his public interventions. His latest media outing does indeed look like the product of a hastily conceived ploy intended to remind his foot-soldiers of his continued political relevance.

[Suleimana]

Yankari, why?
Please read Pius Akinsami's article (The Entombed: Double Consciousness Nigeriana) and you will begin to comprehend. Pat Utomi has also paid his dues. He has talked, thought and acted to institute a better Nigeria. Now he is 'elderly' and we must listen to him. We must also do more than listen- take up the battle and move beyond our keyboards.

The 'dogs' have convinced us that we cannot chase them out. They are wrong but do we know that? Any idea what a million Nigerians can achieve? Take it from me, if we forget our tribes, our religion and our regions, we will have these guys on the run in no time.

A leader will rise amongst us to promote the ideas that are dearest to us- today, that idea is not equity, it is not probity. It is "crass materialism" on one hand and "tribal allegiance" on the other. Religion is a distant third.

[Dee]

This is a good article and we must learn to appreciate the little we have, Nuhu Ribadu, El Rufai, Oby, Dora and Okonjo Iweala all tried during thier administration they made a difference atleast lets appreciate and encourage them for that... not just criticise everybody.