Dear Friends and Well-wishers,
There comes a time in any human being's life when we all have to focus our minds to find solutions for the society we live in. We cannot just live and pass with our legacy measured by the old standards of the number of bags of salt consumed! No! We need to make an effort to change the world we inherited, to make it better and create opportunities for those behind us!
For most of my immediate readers, you may be from my original land of birth of Ghana, a once-beautiful nation with great potential in terms of resources such as gold, fertile land and rivers, lakes and talented motivated people who aspired towards a better life. Most of the issues of Ghana seem to apply to the great continent of Africa, and even to the rest of the people of the world often described as underdeveloped or third world, or poor in the West. Most of you who have accesss to this blog may have lived outside your home lands, or what we call overseas, and /or still live there. The large majority of humans will never have access to this opportunity due to lack of access or education; and we who can read this should think about this and ourselves as a blessing and an opportunity to make life better!
Within the last half century of the 20th century, after political independence of most our nations, our people have been exposed to other cultures, the most modern and challenging situations in the classrooms of the West and East, and on various jobs and situations, the professional and skilleld jobs as well as the back-breaking jobs. We should have learnt something to help build our own nations and make the world better!
In your journeys on earth you most probably had a chance to observe, study, work side by side with, and sometimes even manage some of the same people who have built the Western civilizations and made the world a breath of continuous improvements, innovative products and services to make life better for all. In the process resources have been harnessed, both human and material, riches and wealth have been built, and lessons learnt.
The Question is how much of these lessons of life have our people back home been exposed to and applied to enhance the lives of our people? What will it take to make life better for these people we live or lived amongst or left behind? Will time and nature by itself help improve life for these people humanity describe as poor, some of them living under $1 per day and hundreds of thousands dying of preventable diseases such as malaria from the the bite of the small mosquito? The world is moving on and as modern systems of communications, transportation, health care delivery and services progress, we need to ask ourselves what we are contributing to make life better for ourselves, our society and the world.
All human societies move forward with effective leadership. This blog aims to bring up issues of human leadership starting from where I started from on earth, Ghana, to Africa, America, and the world, and how we can push for effective leadership that cares about people, motivate people to higher achievements, and inspire those behind to move on a narrow path of ethics and morality and service to others besides ourselves.
It is not going to be a lecture but a dialogue and discussion to find solutions. Join me in the dialogue and exercise.
Express yourself and more importantly, let's find ways to sacrifice a little time and ourselves, to get involved, to push our leaders to deliver services, be more accountable and responsive, and make life better for our people and especially the needy and those behind us, the children, from wherever we are. We are one people, no matter where we were born. This blog is for all of us, from Ghana, Africa, America and any part of the world, who feel we can make life better from wherever we are, in whatever situation we find ourselves!
Join us to work and push for change, find solutions, and to make life better for all!
Cheers,
Dr. Kwaku A. Danso
There comes a time in any human being's life when we all have to focus our minds to find solutions for the society we live in. We cannot just live and pass with our legacy measured by the old standards of the number of bags of salt consumed! No! We need to make an effort to change the world we inherited, to make it better and create opportunities for those behind us!
For most of my immediate readers, you may be from my original land of birth of Ghana, a once-beautiful nation with great potential in terms of resources such as gold, fertile land and rivers, lakes and talented motivated people who aspired towards a better life. Most of the issues of Ghana seem to apply to the great continent of Africa, and even to the rest of the people of the world often described as underdeveloped or third world, or poor in the West. Most of you who have accesss to this blog may have lived outside your home lands, or what we call overseas, and /or still live there. The large majority of humans will never have access to this opportunity due to lack of access or education; and we who can read this should think about this and ourselves as a blessing and an opportunity to make life better!
Within the last half century of the 20th century, after political independence of most our nations, our people have been exposed to other cultures, the most modern and challenging situations in the classrooms of the West and East, and on various jobs and situations, the professional and skilleld jobs as well as the back-breaking jobs. We should have learnt something to help build our own nations and make the world better!
In your journeys on earth you most probably had a chance to observe, study, work side by side with, and sometimes even manage some of the same people who have built the Western civilizations and made the world a breath of continuous improvements, innovative products and services to make life better for all. In the process resources have been harnessed, both human and material, riches and wealth have been built, and lessons learnt.
The Question is how much of these lessons of life have our people back home been exposed to and applied to enhance the lives of our people? What will it take to make life better for these people we live or lived amongst or left behind? Will time and nature by itself help improve life for these people humanity describe as poor, some of them living under $1 per day and hundreds of thousands dying of preventable diseases such as malaria from the the bite of the small mosquito? The world is moving on and as modern systems of communications, transportation, health care delivery and services progress, we need to ask ourselves what we are contributing to make life better for ourselves, our society and the world.
All human societies move forward with effective leadership. This blog aims to bring up issues of human leadership starting from where I started from on earth, Ghana, to Africa, America, and the world, and how we can push for effective leadership that cares about people, motivate people to higher achievements, and inspire those behind to move on a narrow path of ethics and morality and service to others besides ourselves.
It is not going to be a lecture but a dialogue and discussion to find solutions. Join me in the dialogue and exercise.
Express yourself and more importantly, let's find ways to sacrifice a little time and ourselves, to get involved, to push our leaders to deliver services, be more accountable and responsive, and make life better for our people and especially the needy and those behind us, the children, from wherever we are. We are one people, no matter where we were born. This blog is for all of us, from Ghana, Africa, America and any part of the world, who feel we can make life better from wherever we are, in whatever situation we find ourselves!
Join us to work and push for change, find solutions, and to make life better for all!
Cheers,
Dr. Kwaku A. Danso
