Legally Ghana has a president, technically we have no leader – Do you agree or disagree? Let us reason together in this post and disagree after you are done reading.
Introduction: Legally Ghana has a president, but technically we have no leader
Legally Ghana has a president, but technically we have no leader and if you read this leadership series with a mind engulfed by entrenched political posture, you will fail to have the needed understanding of the leadership lessons shared. My first piece of advice is this, do not measure leadership ability by age or what others say they are and can do or not do, but rather by your own inner conviction about the individual seeking a leadership role. Old age is not leadership and leadership does not respect age but the ability to deliver.
There is always a huge difference between having political power and being a leader, again only a few individuals globally have both political power and the leadership calling to manage governments and provide the needed leadership to transform nations and bring the needed personality, quality, and substance to political positions.
Leadership, Expert Power and Legitimate Power
Note that when you are voted for, the electorates only give you legitimate democratic power and nothing else as far as leadership is concerned. What you bring on board shows the true colours and inherent leadership or no leadership abilities. When your leadership skills and fundamentals are weak, the real-life challenges of leadership will make you look naked on the scale of leadership.
If you have control over the activities of others, a nation, or a business legitimately or illegitimately, you have power. On the other hand, denotes the ability to your followers, citizens, and ordinary people no matter their political affiliations to follow your instructions voluntarily and manage the completion of a project without exercising any form of force. Traditionally, power was derived from leadership. This means you may have power, but you need to show leadership to breathe life into the power at your disposal and for your followers to come to the realization that you are leading and leading them the right way.
President Akufo Addo no, doubt has democratic power but something more important seems to be lacking as Ghana’s economic woes worse and that is the desire to show true timely leadership. Ghanaians are not seeing the leadership drive to alter the sinking ship and this is not only weakening his leadership but also the popularity of the democratic power among citizens.
Legally, Ghana has a president, but technically we have no leadership to take the needed decisions and hide the political ego.
Leadership, Lack of Expert Power: Reasons for current economic issues of Ghana
The nation is on its way anywhere out of steam and just like floodwaters, the country’s economic outlook is determining its own direction as though the nation is in space and floating aimlessly.
Ghana’s current porous state, blended with hardship, contentious upward rushing prices, and weak currency begging for breath and life, is the face of a ruthless dollar. This current state is a leadership problem. This is leadership lack of expert leadership needed to turn the fortunes of the land around.
An expert leader is a leader that possesses the needed key inherent knowledge, which may be obtained through technical expertise combined with high ability in the core-business activity. It may cover key industry experience resulting from time and practice. It also includes high levels of leadership capabilities, which include management skills among others.
Expert power is an important top-level skill and experience. Sometimes, it must be tapped by you from others around you as a leader to get things done through them. However, to remain an expert, you need to continue learning and improving. This power if possessed, managed, and used by a politician with democratic power will turn him or her into an on-the-feet problem solver.
The great thing about this type of power is that no one can take it away from you. But if it is absent within your personality and those you have put in charge of key sectors fail to exhibit it, you are doomed as a leader. Its absence can lead to nothing but dead, unproductive, bad leadership and choices.
Leadership demands hard decisions and choices even if they are unpopular but will deliver the needed results.
True leadership, acknowledged challenges and failed efforts and brings on board every energy no matter its source by using coercive power to get them to act in the best interest of the business or country. Are we doing that? Are we bringing the so-called opposition into the picture, are we listening to them to find a common ground and solutions?
Ghanaians are dying, getting stressed up, and are at risk of not being able to leave normal lives because we have leadership that has failed but will not face the reality and find useful help and counsel.
Leadership is all Ghana needs and sadly the President and his vice have been intelligently clueless about how to put this nation back on track.
It started with the apportioning of blame and making ordinary Ghanaians believe that Ghana was in the mess because of covid, and it moved to the Russian-Ukraine war, let us face the truth. Anyone in a leadership position who is good at blaming everyone and everything that is in his control and out of his control is only excited to be in the position, but not to show true leadership.
The truth is, these causal agents may exist, but Leadership needs to do the right things and give life to the economy.
The president’s statement that “We know how to bring back the economy, but we don’t know how to bring people back to life” has never been the reality.
Those in Leadership do not know how to do both, and they have demonstrated this with proof.
Ghana’s problem is this. We have democratically elected leaders and political appointees who lack what it takes to face leadership realities, take prudent economic decisions and find relieving solutions to a suffering nation, the suffering masses, and the hopeless nation which needs leadership not politicians in political positions.
Nana Addo’s approach to Leadership is heartbreaking and radiates hopelessness today. Every Ghanaian who is sincere in his heart, and mind and has conscience irrespective of his or her political skewness will agree that we have a messed leadership that needs to first rescue its lost dignity, rescue the Ghanaian economy and its role in leadership.
What Ghana Needs in those occupying leadership positions
Ghana needs prudent management and choices to be made by those in power who make decisions that affect the masses positively. For now, the challenges are messing up everyone, including you and me. Political power without true leadership is like a master key in the hands of an individual in a leadership position without the needed minute leadership prowess to save a dying nation.
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What is your take and call to action
I may be wrong as a leadership expert hence after you have read this article “Legally Ghana has a president, technically we have no leader” what do you have to say? I enjoy constructive criticism instead of praise… Let me know what you have to say about this proverbial article.
Source: Wisdom Hammond | Leadership Expert