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8 Promotive Lessons From Mr. Udom Emmanuel’s Address At AKISAN 2015 Philadelphia Convention

             1. He’s a Team playing Leader Team-playing leaders are indispensable from the top echelon of management to the bottom of organizational operations, and in political leadership - for their abilities to establish networks of partners with single focus. World renowned Leadership trainer, John Maxwell teaches that “…leaders work with people” . This is why model leaders use the team-word ‘We’ in place of the self-term ‘I’. And all through the Governor’s address, every phrase that talks of responsibility and credit is led by the word ‘We’. In other words, on the one hand, he creates room for all to participate in the task of advancing Akwa Ibom, and on the other, he attributes his successes to ‘us’ and not ‘me’.   2. He’s a Man of Strong Memories A high profile politician in Nigeria recently showed some poverty of memory; he forgot his running mate’s name. And the media feasted on him for it; understandably so.   Dr Tracy Allo