Leadership Digest

A MAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS FAILURE OR SUCCESS A story was told of a young chap, who went to a soothsayer to inquire about his future. Right before his eyes, the soothsayer drew two circles. One in white and the other in black. He then put a millipede in between the circles, saying “if the millipede crawls into the white circle, your future will be bright & very great; but if it crawls into the black circle, then you’re finished & doomed. As soon as the millipede was dropped in between the circles, it began to crawl towards the white circle. This chap was super excited! But suddenly as it got to the edge of the circle, it turned back & began crawling towards the black one. The boy watched as the millipede progressively moved farther away from his desire to his doom. Then just when the millipede got to the edge of the black circle, this chap stretched his hands, picked it up & quickly but carefully dropped it in the white circle. The soothsayer in shock, ne...

THE TIGER ROARS AGAIN History was rewritten recently when, against all odds and predictions, Eldrick Tont Woods popularly known as Tiger Woods won the US Masters Professional golf tournament after he won it last in 2005 and after 11 years of winning a major golf title. Woods won his fifth Masters green jacket and his first major championship in 2008. The icing on the cake is the award of “the presidential Medal of Freedom” to Tiger Woods by President Donald Trump in a ceremony at the White House on May 6 th , 2019. At the occasion, President Trump praised Wood’s many accomplishments on the golf course and his ability to come back from debilitating physical adversity that might have permanently sidelined any other athlete. At the peak of his career, Woods won 13 golf major titles from June 1997 to October 2010. After which he fell from Number 1 to 58 in world ranking. The win by Tiger Woods was therefore very significant in the face of various crises he went through an...

FROM CAPE TOWN TO CAIRO: TEN TEENAGERS FLY IN SELF MADE PLANE ✈  CAPE TOWN - Teenage pilots have achieved their goal of flying from Cape Town to Cairo in a self-made plane. It took a group of 20 teenagers 10 days to build the four-seater Sling 4 plane which landed safely in Cairo on Monday. Six young pilots were a part of the journey which aimed to inspire youth across the world to chase their dreams, and not be limited by their past. Seventeen-year-old pilot Megan Werner, founder of the U-Dream Global project, said: “I wanted to do something bigger that will inspire people around the world. I’ve got a huge love for aviation because my mom is an aircraft engineer instructor and my dad is an airline pilot. When I heard about the initiative… I thought how about having 20 teenagers building a plane and then we fly it across Africa,” she said. It was no easy feat, as the group encountered multiple challenges en route to Cairo. “The support plane broke down and in Addis [...