TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE FCT AREA COUNCILS: HOW TO INSPIRE EXTRAORD...TANKO AHMED fwc
Cities are living organism that transform over time through events and driven by leadership process. The vision of Nigeria’s Abuja Federal Capital Territory is to be one of the 20 World Class Capital Cities by the year 2020 through the provision of infrastructure, services, and administration. The city’s mission is to develop into a first class city comparable to the best in the world. This paper discusses how transformational leadership in the FCT Area Councils could inspire extraordinary performance in achieving their vision and mission. A 3-Tier theoretical framework of transformation, leadership and inspiration theories is employed to explain break-point for change, leading for attainment of set goals; and action-event by extraordinary performance. The paper contributes to a thematic workshop on Leadership, Policy and Strategy for Effective Governance for Capacity Building of Elected Chairmen, Councillors and other Senior Officials of the FCT Area Councils. The paper arouses the spirit of transformational leadership among the participants and inculcates the need to inspire extraordinary performance among their followers. The paper strongly recommends series of deliberate actions and events aimed at creating passion for extraordinary performance; taking advantage of the unique and ample opportunities available for rapid development; and particular attention given to utilization best practices, continuous capacity building; and developing partnerships with other cities across the world.
OBSTACLES TO AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN PUBLIC POLICY MAKINGTANKO AHMED fwc
Obstacles to the African Intellectual in public policy making include limited access, limited space, external influence, limited choice, philosopher kings, incomprehensive ideologies, and national goal versus self-aggrandizement.
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE FCT AREA COUNCILS: HOW TO INSPIRE EXTRAORD...TANKO AHMED fwc
Cities are living organism that transform over time through events and driven by leadership process. The vision of Nigeria’s Abuja Federal Capital Territory is to be one of the 20 World Class Capital Cities by the year 2020 through the provision of infrastructure, services, and administration. The city’s mission is to develop into a first class city comparable to the best in the world. This paper discusses how transformational leadership in the FCT Area Councils could inspire extraordinary performance in achieving their vision and mission. A 3-Tier theoretical framework of transformation, leadership and inspiration theories is employed to explain break-point for change, leading for attainment of set goals; and action-event by extraordinary performance. The paper contributes to a thematic workshop on Leadership, Policy and Strategy for Effective Governance for Capacity Building of Elected Chairmen, Councillors and other Senior Officials of the FCT Area Councils. The paper arouses the spirit of transformational leadership among the participants and inculcates the need to inspire extraordinary performance among their followers. The paper strongly recommends series of deliberate actions and events aimed at creating passion for extraordinary performance; taking advantage of the unique and ample opportunities available for rapid development; and particular attention given to utilization best practices, continuous capacity building; and developing partnerships with other cities across the world.
OBSTACLES TO AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN PUBLIC POLICY MAKINGTANKO AHMED fwc
Obstacles to the African Intellectual in public policy making include limited access, limited space, external influence, limited choice, philosopher kings, incomprehensive ideologies, and national goal versus self-aggrandizement.
Endpoint Agent Part 2: Monitoring SaaS Apps from AnywhereThousandEyes
Endpoint Agents monitor application experience and network connectivity of SaaS apps like Salesforce and Office 365. Performance data is collected directly from employee laptops and desktops and aggregated so you can understand real-time performance, long-term trends and individual user issues. In Part 2 of this webinar series, we’ll share:
* Metrics you can gather on SaaS performance
* How to report on aggregate performance for an app or location
* How to troubleshoot both office and remote users
Managing Network Performance Within and Beyond Your EnterpriseThousandEyes
Your organization relies on the public Internet to deliver both on-premises and SaaS applications across a geographically distributed employee base. In these slides, see traditional enterprise networks vs. the complex topologies you rely on today, three problems with using traditional network performance management tools and the foundational technologies ThousandEyes has built to address the performance challenges of the modern enterprise. View the webinar with live demo here: http://ow.ly/BzAkM
Harmonization of inter-cultural inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations: t...TANKO AHMED fwc
‘Humans are primarily concerned with preserving themselves in a dangerous world … made doubly dangerous by human factors’. Culture, ethnicity and religion constitute the '3D' foundation of loyalty, identity, and duty respectively, in the generality of human affairs. The dimension of human advancement seeks for harmony to harness resources for the betterment and general well-being of all. The cross-functional complexities of this triad therefore necessitate the emergence, and intervention of enabling civil societies to cater for ‘weaknesses’ of traditional governance. This paper attempts to define and establish the parameters for harmonization of inter-cultural, -ethnic and –religious relations by universal role of civil societies. It proffers ways and means of achieving these and concludes that humanity needs to harness both human and natural resources for progress and also to counter impending disasters of human and natural dimensions.
Endpoint Agent Part 2: Monitoring SaaS Apps from AnywhereThousandEyes
Endpoint Agents monitor application experience and network connectivity of SaaS apps like Salesforce and Office 365. Performance data is collected directly from employee laptops and desktops and aggregated so you can understand real-time performance, long-term trends and individual user issues. In Part 2 of this webinar series, we’ll share:
* Metrics you can gather on SaaS performance
* How to report on aggregate performance for an app or location
* How to troubleshoot both office and remote users
Managing Network Performance Within and Beyond Your EnterpriseThousandEyes
Your organization relies on the public Internet to deliver both on-premises and SaaS applications across a geographically distributed employee base. In these slides, see traditional enterprise networks vs. the complex topologies you rely on today, three problems with using traditional network performance management tools and the foundational technologies ThousandEyes has built to address the performance challenges of the modern enterprise. View the webinar with live demo here: http://ow.ly/BzAkM
Harmonization of inter-cultural inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations: t...TANKO AHMED fwc
‘Humans are primarily concerned with preserving themselves in a dangerous world … made doubly dangerous by human factors’. Culture, ethnicity and religion constitute the '3D' foundation of loyalty, identity, and duty respectively, in the generality of human affairs. The dimension of human advancement seeks for harmony to harness resources for the betterment and general well-being of all. The cross-functional complexities of this triad therefore necessitate the emergence, and intervention of enabling civil societies to cater for ‘weaknesses’ of traditional governance. This paper attempts to define and establish the parameters for harmonization of inter-cultural, -ethnic and –religious relations by universal role of civil societies. It proffers ways and means of achieving these and concludes that humanity needs to harness both human and natural resources for progress and also to counter impending disasters of human and natural dimensions.
