Nigeria: Leadership Initiatives for Excellence - Leading Under Systemic Corruption

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Africa's stunted growth and development can be put at the feet of very poor leadership and systemic corruption. One of the greatest challenges for a leader is leading under a system that encourages corruption, where one person in particular is not the only corrupt person but virtually every cadre of people in the leadership ladder from lowest to highest appear to support a measure of corruption.

In the last few months, a lot has been published about leadership corruption in high places in both public and private sectors within and outside our continent. Most people have heard the line "Power corrupts." (or the longer version, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"). The question often asked is, "Why and how does power corrupt leaders?"

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