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Leadership Trainer Prince Adu-Appiah launches two books on Leadership
Leadership Trainer Prince Adu-Appiah has launched two books on leadership titled “29 Days of Leadership” and “17 Essential Principles of Leadership.”
The launch which took place recently at the African Regent Hotel, was chaired by the Economist and Entrepreneur Mr. Ebenezer Amankwah-Minkah and moderated by the Award-winning Ghanaian Gospel musician, Eric Jeshrun.
And in 17 Essential Principles of Leadership, Mr.Adu-Appiah writes “The sight of people, especially the youth living their lives heedlessly, deficient in principles caught my attention. I have seen people head for the East and expect to show up in the West. Life is not mystical, like many assume. Both Success and failure in life are products and results of one’s decisions, mindset, experiences, and exposure to essential leadership and life’s principles.”
In her review, Hannah Abrahams-Appiah, an Author, Pastor, and Destiny Coach at King’s General’s International Church said that “Prince shared leadership principles that were proven and tried. He uses real stories and contemporary examples to inspire his readers. His personal leadership experience is sprinkled on the pages of his book as part of the secrets upcoming leaders must know.”
“This book is bound to spark a must-do attitude in the minds of emerging leaders and focus the power of established ones. Grab two copies and give the other to someone you desperately want to see succeed in their life’s mission”, Dr. William OkyereFrimpong, Regional CEO, The HuD Group EPSA, said.
The African continent is saddled with ‘poor leadership’ which we agree is an impediment to Africa’s quest for sustainable and equitable development.
For this reason, Mr.Adu-Appiah revealed how these books were specifically targeted at policymakers, corporate executives, community leaders, all youth in leadership, and anyone who is in the business of driving change.
He expressed firm belief via the book 29 Days of Leadership that “the start and finish of the 29 days are wholly up to you, that this could be a journey to discovering your personal leadership, purpose, potential, passion, power, and people needed for the fulfilment of your assignment.”
Prince Adu-Appiah holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Ghana Business School in Organisational Leadership & Corporate Governance.
Prince is a certified Myles Munroe mentee, a 2-time TEDx Speaker, a Civic Leader, a Leadership Trainer, an Entrepreneur, and Tech Consultant, with a strong passion to raise leaders and help eradicate poverty in Africa. He is the Founder and CEO of 1Billion Africa (www.1billionarica.org) – a non-profit movement and civil society organisation that inspires and empowers Africa’s youth to identify problems in their communities and turn them into projects.
He has led over 45 teams in his 14 years journey pursuing the understanding of the subject leadership.
He has spoken to over 35,000 people in 10 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, The Gambia, and the USA. Through leadership training, keynotes, workshops, authoring, mentoring, podcasts, and consulting.
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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