Ownership

February 23, 2021August 2, 2021 ~ osasuoviawe ~ Leave a comment

Today, I watched different people from my office window walk passed litter on the floor.

Managers, Supervisors, Operatives, Contractors; one by one, they looked at the litter and just kept walking.

Then a particular supervisor stopped, picked it up and threw it in the bin that was just 2 meters away.

I have always believed that you can judge ownership of a people in any community by how they handle litter.

The owner of a house will never just walk past litter, and will never litter.

I am thankful for people that own their space, and do the right thing, especially when they feel no one is watching.

Responsibility

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 ~ osasuoviawe ~ Leave a comment

Many leaders are victims, and not servants to the people they lead.

As a leader, if you choose not to be deliberate about service, inadvertently, you choose to be used and dumped.

There is a thing line between being of service and being used. That thing line is responsibility.

The people you lead must understand and own their responsibilities, if you are to serve them.

Where all responsibility rests on the leader, it is only logical that the leader becomes the scapegoat for all things. And scapegoats are always sacrificed for the sins of others, even though they played no role in the sinning.

– Osasu Oviawe