African Mirror: Leadership comes in multiple forms

AT precisely a time when we most need it, leadership is nowhere to be seen in the places we most look for it. So perhaps, we are simply looking in the wrong places. And perhaps we also need to relook how we define leadership.

What do I mean by leadership? Margaret Wheatley, said it best: “Leadership is about facing the reality of an imploding world, committing to self-sacrifice and the service of others anyway and restoring hope – islands of sanity and possibility in the huge sea of dissolution and despair that we are all awash on.”

And while Covid-19 has turned cracks into chasms, the signs of broken leadership making for broken organisations, careers and people, have been around us for years.