{"quotes":[{"text":"The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa?","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["africa","attitude","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":4833,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.","author":"Harold Nicholson","tags":["british","constitution","continuity","dictator","elect","government","hereditary","identity","institution","king","legitimate","monarch","neutral","partisan","political","politician","president","queen","royal-family","service","sovereign","state","succession","terrorism"],"id":5646,"author_id":"Harold+Nicholson"},{"text":"It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader’s heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":13067,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Around the world, the perception and reality of corruption and bad governance in public places remains very high. But it isn’t just in governments that these are found; they can permeate through society, where they are rampant in private enterprises and even religious institutions. We need to deal with the causes, not just consequences. You will need to play your role, both as a good example as well as part of the social police force. Cultures and beliefs must change at a personal level as well as at institutional levels.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","corruption","education","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","knowledge","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":17182,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","effectiveness","excellence","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","politics","success","succession"],"id":24516,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Just imagine the strides Africa would have made if all the resources being channeled towards conflict resolution were going into construction of power generation plants and irrigation capacity. Can’t we promote our own peace? What are we doing to seriously focus on other eco-friendly energy sources like wind and solar?","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["africa","attitude","corruption","education","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","knowledge","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","peace","politics","success","succession"],"id":31187,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"It’s about teamwork, realizing we are on the same side and complementing each other. The family is at its best when exposed to and engaged in high-quality environments, interactions, and relationships. This is not technological or economic quality – it is leadership and effectiveness quality. Children mature best when the adults in their life work in partnership with one another. There must exist important aligning of mission, beliefs, values and behaviours within the family unit.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":53468,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Begin to invest in productive capacity, and the ability to see people flying or shining on the platform you have set for them in support of your vision. You need to draw the best out of them so that the reach and impact of your vision becomes phenomenal. See them as your extension, the multiplication of the tentacles of your vision and mission – sometimes when they shine, they are not trying to replace you at all, they are trying to be a “little you” somewhere you cannot be, as you focus on other key strategic issues elsewhere.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","effectiveness","excellence","faith","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":70424,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Realise your Stewardship role as a parent – you raise children to offer a quality gift to society. Even your spouse should not be treated as an object or possession you own; support them to be the best of what they were created to be. Do your part and trust God for the rest. If you have empowered them, trust them to be responsible.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","effectiveness","excellence","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","parenting-children","politics","success","succession"],"id":74888,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"},{"text":"Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.","author":"Archibald Marwizi","tags":["attitude","effectiveness","excellence","growth","inspirational","inspirational","leadership","legacy","politics","success","succession"],"id":76477,"author_id":"Archibald+Marwizi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}