11/07/2021
LEADERSHIP IN THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY
Politics today needs a fundamentally different approach - and a new breed of leaders. The new leaders focus on outcomes and use performance measurement as a motivating tool to organize selves and drive improvements.
It is no more enough to offer salt, rice and Maggi during elections. It is wrong to starve the people, only to show up during campaigns with Ghana-must-go bags of money for INEC staffs and a few centers of influence in a community.
What is enough is value. "Value" is not a bad word. "Value" means something else; achieving good outcomes as efficiently as possible.
what is enough is to empower people with the right economy skills/means to create/co-create wealth in a community economy in line with international best practices.
Again, what is enough is to mentor youths to know where the world is headed - identifying opportunity and commercializing it thereby solving economy problems.
OYA is dissatisfied with the present decadent and bankrupt social order which treats it's people as means to some ends, and not as ends of themselves; a vicious social order where leadership uses it's competent people as cannon folders to achieve it's unconscionable, immoral; predatory and greedy end.
OYA is poised to find new leadership that understands the philosophy of the golden rule of modern economics as a solution to the creation of sustainable wealth, rapid development, lasting peace and real prosperity. We desire a new social order whose principal economic policy is centered on the development of human capital as a whole through the social investment approach (SIA) founded on the golden rule of economics.
OYA seeks improvement in service delivery. Elected leaders must be SERVICOM compliant. As the impacts of democracy on the environment and on individuals become too substantial to ignore. In many realms the rules/methods of doing politics keep shifting, considerations that hadn't previously complicated the plans of political leaders started getting factored in. It is no longer possible to ignore political and democratic externalities.
EXTERNALITIES talks about the spillover effects of an elected leader's operations. They're the impacts political office/s has on its broader milieu, either directly or indirectly, but not obliged to pay for or otherwise take into account in it's decision making.
A classic example is the disproportionate number of young unemployed or underemployed adults that snowballed to the END SARS social unrest.
Many types of exyernality that used to be minor have grown too large to ignore. Today's political leaders are bombarded with messages through many channels that they owe more to society and many think so themselves. But often the result is an incoherent mishmash charity giving, unsustainable empowerment programs/initiatives.
THE BIG IDEA. The key to becoming a great political leader is to take on responsibility for externalities - what economists call the impacts you have on the world (like hunger) for which you are not called to account
Externalities framework allows you to respond rationally and in ways that are simultaneously defensible to all stakeholders. By focusing on your own footprint - societal problems that really can be laid at your doorstep - you can establish priorities, set measurable goals, and take action.
Greater resources should be applied to social problems with cost borne by those who occupy elective offices.
This Is For Real......
Senate must return to old Obubra
