LEADERSHIP IN PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF THE TWO SUDANS
THEORIES AND STYLES NARCISSISM AND SERVANTHOOD
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I have carried the weight of the two Sudans on my shoulders for decades. Because of their weight, I have not enjoyed my life as a youth. I became fifty when I was just eighteen. At eighteen, I wept because of the way the people of the two Sudans thought, the way they acted, and the way they behaved—always strategizing to destroy one another or at least to make the other person miserable because of personal interests—greed and influence of race, tribe, culture, and religion. As human beings, why do we, in our right mind, spend sleepless nights planning to destroy the other? This was not the Sudans I wanted. Now that I am fifty plus, I feel that you should carry the weight of the two Sudans by reading this book. As you will find out, which is a tragic fact in the two Sudans, there is convincing evidence that no society can grow further than the quality of its leadership. Leadership in Perspective is a book for everyone to read or to study. By reading this preview, you will read the entire book, and in the process, you will learn and become a better leader—ready to carry the burdens of society and institutions with grace and love. This book is intended to be used as a guide for anyone who is in leadership or has an interest to understand the theories and practices of leadership in organizations, institutions, or society. The book is ideal for anyone who has a major or a minor in leadership, or indeed anyone who has not taken a study in leadership. This group of people will benefit well from the synthesized knowledge, and if they are students, they will benefit well from the style of writing academic papers, essays, or assignments. It is particularly helpful for individuals who are preparing for examinations in leadership. The book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, so that they can attain a solid foundation of the theories, styles, and application of the principles of leadership. The book is also ideal, as an energizer, for individuals who are in leadership, especially education leaders in the challenging and changing time in education leadership. It is written in a simple language, and in a straightforward style. As it is now obvious to many people, leadership is a simple but complex phenomenon that has existed in society, in every race or tribe, and in every culture or politics for a very long time. Beginning with families as units of society, leadership has never lacked, and its true intention has always been for the service of the greatest good of all in society. But until now, the deplorable state of leadership in education and in communities, influenced by tribe, race, and hatred cannot be underestimated. Are we primarily evil that we are in the process to implode?
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Leadership in Perspective is a book for everyone to read or to study. By reading this preview, you will read the entire book, and in the process, you will learn and become a better leader—ready to carry the burdens of society and institutions with grace and love. The book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, so that they can attain a solid foundation of the theories, styles, and application of the principles of leadership. The book is also ideal, as an energizer, for individuals who are in leadership, especially education leaders in the challenging and changing time in education leadership. It is written in a simple language, and in a straightforward style. As it is now obvious to many people, leadership is a simple but complex phenomenon that has existed in society, in every race or tribe, and in every culture or politics for a very long time. Beginning with families as units of society, leadership has never lacked, and its true intention has always been for the service of the greatest good of all in society. But until now, the deplorable state of leadership in education and in communities, influenced by tribe, race, and hatred cannot be underestimated. Are we primarily evil that we are in the process to implode? Regardless of the triumphs and setbacks of leadership in democratic, autocratic, tribal, religious, monarch, and racist societies, the basic intentions and tenets of leadership have always been to harmonize the needs of society and to safeguard the lives of all living in that society. Depending on the leaders’ intelligence and whether they have the nature of good in themselves, there arises a leadership that is good and exemplary or extremely toxic, evil, and destructive. Good leaders want every citizen and their neighbors to enjoy the dividends of society and the products of creation. Destructive leaders are corrupt, and they are, in fact, ignorant of what they ought to do or abstain from doing. They set communities into conflict as a political calculation for them to remain in power. They create environments of fear and hatred in communities or institutions. They surround themselves with people who only listen to them. Corrupt leaders take greater share of the good things and a lesser of the burdens and troubles that they create. Because of these actions, corrupt leaders are unequal, and they can drive communities, institutions, or societies into tribal, religious, or racial conflicts. Through this sort of error, corrupt leaders lack the achievement of moral goodness. Since being unjust is a voluntary choice, it elicits blame and conviction.
About the Author
Jada is the author of The Golgotha: South Sudan 15 December 2013, and The Terrorists Within: South Sudan’s Tribal Ascendancy. In his perspective, no society, no country, no institution, and no organization can grow further than the quality of its leadership.