When you consider that every
organization lags behind its environment, training the next generation of corporate
leaders becomes a vital activity for the continuity and success of any
institution. Every leader in spite his or her greatness operates out of history,
context and in the hope (vision) of a future. While this is our human
condition, it constrains even the greatest leaders to that which they have experienced,
understood and imagine. While it is possible to work from past reality (experience)
and succeed fairly well in the short term, it is the understanding of the
present reality that keeps us competitive. However, it is only by our
imagination that we can create a future.
By training the next generation
of leaders we equip them with a vision of the future. Our current understanding
will become their past reality. Our vision will enable them to create a new
current reality! This means that their future reality may not be anything the
past generation can identify with, but within which the next generation is able
to live. This process of handing over the baton of leadership to newer prepared
leadership ensures that they do not make the mistakes past generations made,
but also empowers the next generation to improve on the improvements of past generations.
Leadership determines the quality of life of a people, by training leaders we
control and influence the quality of life of a generation, a corporation and a
nation.
Corporate leaders have a special
place in society because of their direct socio-economic impact on the lives of the
7+ billion people across the globe through their role in ensuring the success of
enterprise, incomes and livelihoods of communities everywhere. If we do not
train the next generation of leaders today their vision will be limited to (solving)
the problems of our current reality. In other words if we do not train leaders,
society will never see a better day.
Allan Bukusi,
NGCL Program Director
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