 Nugita lokata kwita, katuhu kwa mahi watu kwa buki ya hwja ujud. Tata kwa hii mtambukha kwa kutua na kwa kwa kuni yubayu kuida. Nijawas, mii wa kutua jende kwa kuna kutisha kikia. Meia hwja na kwa hane kaka mtambukha kikia. Weawe Kusayu Weawe Weawe Weawe Weawe Iwana Maoka Oda Kusayu so kisha kisha. nightsi mae hrda diffuse ongeri atama toki bifuohu humbold maes profession gere is wan na maa menters and both in the private seksa onionchatch I know that I love the Lord and I serve the Lord wherever it is going to. I'm seeing that my screen is not popping up but I'm hoping that when I spoke to Kate and I asked her, first of all I spoke to a person and he said, at the Kedenda, can you come? Can you come to Nairobi Central and talk to the youth? He had called me a number of times, always at the last minute and I have not said yes. So this time I said yes. I think this one, yeah. And so this time I agreed to come and speak. And unfortunately time is not on my side because I need to be at the airport by noon. But I want to talk about leadership. Maybe I want to start by asking you to imagine that car that's called the Prado. You know the Prado? The Toyota Prado? Which part of the Prado do you think is the most important part of that car? Which is the most important part of a Prado car? Take your car. Which is the most important part of your car? Which one? The engine. How many parts do you think make up a car? How many? 5,000? 2,000? It is said that you need over 40,000 parts to make up a car. If you are to count those parts, there are over 40,000. But which parts do you think is the most important again? Which one? All of them. I think you are clever. Yes. Because someone will say it is the battery. But you know the battery will not work without the spark plug. Someone may say it is the alternator. But again the alternator will not work without the connector. And even all those ones, if you don't have the key to get in, it will not work. So all parts are equal. Let's see the next one. So which is the most important part of the car? Every part is important and complements the other. Let me see the next part. So who do you think is the most important person in that organization? Is it the manager? Is it the secretary? Is it the driver? What about your t-boy? What about the messenger who delivers that document? For us it is clearing and for the agents we need the messenger to give the document in time. What about the seller and the buyer? Who is the most important person in that organization? Again the answer is all of them are important. Everyone is a leader in his or her own area of functioning. However, I want to say that no manager is necessarily a leader. Although you can have a leader who is a manager. And why do I say that? It's because managers tend to maintain status quo, but leaders aim to transform the status to a better position. You will find that managers work with policies. They will say 9 to 5. And that is what will work in that office. If you keep another time they will read the policy for you. If you spend beyond on the trip they will read the policy because they are maintaining the status quo. Their job is to keep the policy. But leaders follow policy. While the manager follows policy you find that the leader creates the policy. The leader is the type who will come in and say how long are you going to function like this? You must change this. Corona came. People are now working at home. The manager will be afraid to let people go and work at home. The leader will say go and work at home. I will explain to the board. That's the difference between the manager and the leader. But all of them are important. You cannot say that because the leader is creating policies therefore the manager has no role. You still need to implement it. Let's move on. And that takes us to quarantine. First quarantine is 12. If you want to turn 7, all of us know that the eye cannot claim to be the most important part. Neither my legs do that. Neither my hands are working out there. Everybody. Every part is important. To the extent that I would be a madman standing here talking if you are not there. If you call the meeting and brought these people here and the other people are not there we would be just mad people talking to themselves. So everyone is important. We must take that into consideration as leaders. We must know that everyone contributes to the well-being of us. Let's move on. So what is leadership? It is primarily focused on strategic goals of the organization. But also motivating people to do their work. So that leadership will improve things. It will change things. It will develop. It will correct. It will advance things. And it will eventually bring success. And I want to just give an example that leadership brings changes. Some of us have read about the black Americans and their struggle in the U.S. To the extent that they could be removed from the vehicles and be told to go outside because our brothers, the whites were getting into the vehicle and they had to come out. It took one lady called Rosa Parks to go mad and say that I am not going to. I am not coming out of this car. I am not coming out of this bus. Whatever you say. And sometimes it takes a leader to bring that change. It sometimes takes a leader to say no to what is going on. So leadership is very important. Let's go to the next stage. Okay, sorry. So a leader is someone who takes charge. He is a person who is able to convince people to move on. My sister, you know you are very good at doing that. Okay, when we come to chambers and we want to talk to the associations there are people who can stand and persuade people. And sometimes naturally people default on them. Although some people are very talkative but negatively in the end. So it is a gift that you can have and use positively and here we are talking of positive use of the gift of the gap. So a leader is a leader you want to find the best way to manage your people. You need to be able to have a style that fits in with the people that is able to give direction without overwhelming them giving them the confidence that yes you know that they are contributing to this work and you do want to listen to them not dictate to them. Reminds me of an example I was in Mombasa managing a company. We had a lot of trucks and during El Nino the road to Mombasa was very bad. And suddenly we found that there is a part of the truck that is called the bell housing. The bell housing houses the gearbox and the engine and normally the cover of it is made up of aluminum. So when the roads became bad on a weekly basis we were replacing like three to four bell houses and a bell house would cost almost 150,000. So I went to my transport manager and said what's happening why are we replacing bell houses three in a week and they couldn't tell me they couldn't tell me the transport manager could not tell me why we were losing them so I said I'm coming to the transport department and I want to meet you with the workshop manager because you want to find out why it's not working. We came they could not tell us what. So I called the I called the whole workshop the drivers and the turnboys I know the turnboys don't talk in front of drivers but that day I said anyone who is going to give me a solution to this problem I'm going to give 10,000 and then I saw someone move sideways and he came and said we have been telling them but they don't listen to us we are the drivers we know but they don't listen to us. The problem is that because the roads were rough they are what we call rubber mountains for the engine falling off and as they fall off then the body is hitting against the body and aluminum bodies were cracking but the transport manager could not believe that and so we went and bought the rubbers which were costing us 400 shengs each and we put them there and we solved them and that takes us back to what we were saying that everyone in the organization is important that person and is 10,000 but you know how much he saved us millions, millions because it was terrible doing that time let's move on to the next one next so why leadership? because nothing happens without leadership nothing changes without leadership nothing develops without someone taking leadership nothing improves in any situation without leadership and you can come down and you are always in the end led by someone even here we have been led by someone so leadership is important for all of us do you know sometimes it even takes a madman to be a leader because someone can come to your home and insult you my elder but you need a mad brother to take leadership and throw him out of that place so leadership is a mud of initiative a mud of taking responsibility but on a positive banner we have situations where people have been elected into leadership but they destroy more than build let's move on so good leadership take me back good leadership will not entertain mediocrity good leadership will not allow things to go wrong because the boss is not there and it is the responsibility of the boss good leadership will take the initiative do it and explain it afterwards leaders are usually angry people that is a fact you most likely find that it is it is only when we get angry that things change and sometimes you can go on a routine for so long in an organization until you get one person who works into the manager's office and say this cannot work so it is it it calls for initiative it calls for being brave in doing things brave in a positive manner you know there are people who want to talk loud to the manager to be heard so that he can say but did you hear me talk that is not brave that is foolishness you ought to be an honorable man honorable lady who is able to but there must be a limit for you to be able to say this can no longer work it must change and it must change must not be seen to be rude you can be able to say it firmly to the extent that your boss will be you understand that this is a matter of concern and it will be taken in seriously so it involves tolerance it looks for improvement in everything that is done let's move on so I think the question that appears at the bottom is why are we here so why have we been called here is it because it is an annual meeting where did you come what cost you to live home to be here is it you came to see my elder Prof. Sungeri or you wanted to see the architect what is it that you are hoping to get from this I've heard instances where young people face a lot of challenges in church because the way that young people plant things are different from the way that elders plant things because elders would want to look in and say why are you going to Longonot and youth will say it is an English program and the elders will say it is an outing and sometimes you will struggle over that the youth feeling that they are not being understood sometimes the elders feel that they are wasting money but I always tell the elders that you know if they don't go to Longonot they may not come here I might talk on behalf of some people if they don't go to Longonot just guess where they could be spending their time so when we say are you going to give youth a lunch on Sabbath and some people feel that as a ways they say sometimes it is good to give them that lunch because it keeps them to be in the company of the brethren rather than running out there so you use the opportunity to bring about positive change even when it is difficult and sometimes it takes leadership to be in the charge board to be able to say that it also takes leadership for one of the youth or one of the young professionals to be able to say that indeed what the elders saying is also right because they give and take in leadership so good the organizations that thrive normally thrive out of good leadership good leadership includes allowing others to play their role they don't feel they don't feel intimidated we had a leader in Mombasa that in his organization if he came and met you in the lift he would do this to you and once he has done that he actually sends out a lot of termination just because he doesn't like your face eventually this thing got around and one day the owners of the company came from Europe and they also did this to him and when that was done for him then we on a flight from Mombasa and here he is mourning at how many years he had put in that name and I'm saying to myself does he know how many people he has put into misery by just that you don't like the face of a person when you do this and you actually go to your office and write to show that you have power leadership must have limits and I want to say that transformational leadership moves to the people people must be able to benefit I want to give you an example that we did in Mombasa again just before the 90s customs declarations was done on paper it's still printed on paper but you had to do it on paper and we were clearing motor vehicles in what we call CKDs completely knocked down kits you see them at General Motors you see them packed there you come and you bring them because it used to take us two weeks to do an entry two weeks the lady is just typing to do that so I decided that this cannot happen it cannot continue my elder I went to customs I said I want to computerize my customs declaration I went and approached someone from KPA and brought him into the company he was a systems analyst I went to IBM and approached a programmer then I said I want to computerize our customs declaration now I then decided to have a meeting with my staff the head of declaration came to me and said this can't happen this is impossible I wrote in my heart that this man cannot be in the team he has already blocked his head he has already blocked his mind so I said you go in there talk to these people and get to know how this system works give me a program we did the program in a record time and by just doing the entry on computer we cut the time for doing the declaration from two weeks to four days the problem that we had is that customs say that you must declare on what is called a flimsy paper for us to speed up we were declaring on computer paper and when we got there all our entries were rejected the calculations were right but the paper was wrong so I went to customs and asked them what do you want is it the figures or is it the paper and they said Mr. Kedenda this is the law it is written in the customs act flimsy paper it took us 10 years 10 years to get to the point where we could declare on computer and there were people sitting in those offices who could see that the government could save time and could do but unwilling to change and so if you don't have a transformational mind all that you see are obstacles all that you see is how this is going and you know it was causing us money because every entry that you are passing now demands some money because things are delaying when we got a transformational leader it turned out to be also a terrorist in a way because now it had to be done and be done whether you like it or not and in that instance the country lost a lot of money I am talking to you because you are going to be the managers of tomorrow you are going to make decisions tomorrow some of you are in government some of you are in private organization but you must be able to understand that change is taking place you must be able to go ahead I went to the system commission of customers and look here is the proof why don't we go to Nairobi to prove that it is happening he told me Mr. Kenana looked behind me and when I looked behind him there was a computer that had been donated by the British government that was there that was being used I want you to be men and women of excellence men who are willing to make changes men and women who when you see good things happen you are able to buy that idea and you know even in church we have a problem sometimes because we also have elders who are 19 to Rudy they will not change this is how it has always been done and some of you are going to go in and you will be in that regiment that this is how work is being done in this company I want you to be a different lot of people I want people who can challenge and challenge with humility and be able to present your case so that changes can come through because unless you do it Kenya will always be behind I want to say something that I don't know how to place it All of us who are here it is good to pray and I pray but do something you know there is that prayer that is praying until something happens sometimes nothing is going to happen sometimes it will take you to happen am I making sense that you are praying indefinitely for work and you are not applying you are planning for business in your mind and you are never going out to do business and you are a professional well educated but you have in your mind that you must be employed who said that everyone who graduates must be employed good morning class who said that everyone everyone who leaves college must be employed I have a guy at home in the village and I am telling him that you know people who graduated with you are contractors he comes and works here with some Chinese he goes home and he calls that I am unemployed I said I am stuck in there I said why are you unemployed why are you not employing until we have that transformational mind that says I can do it if my classmate is doing it if he is contracting if he is able to be a contractor of a house in my village why am I looking for employment and some young people young ladies men will be spending time at home and could still be spending time at home now and when you ask them they say that I don't have an employment he is an electrical engineer he is a water engineer people are doing plumbing all over the place but he is saying that he is unemployed and he is living in Nairobi commuting, seeing friends and asking for bus fare good morning class is this what you expected me to talk about or am I insulting you I just want to talk about the truth that our young professionals must be able to go beyond employment sometimes it is your better off starting of non-employed than being employed I want to give you an example quickly so that I can move on I thank God that when I graduated from Nairobi within one week I was employed within one week I had a company come as thank God I could drive around I had a subaru, a very good car then I went to Mombasa I got a good job in Mombasa but the company belonged to the owners one day when I am in Nairobi I get a phone call and I am told to report to the Ministry of Transport and when I get to the Ministry of Transport the P.S. removes a letter and gives me and says I have been appointed to head a parasitinal I said I have not applied I have not applied for this job I don't know who is giving me this job I don't know, I don't know but the ones appointing me is the owner of the company so I go do you know that my employment there ended like that I could not say no I am staying because the one who is appointing me is the owner of the company and is the owner of the government so it went it went so I went to that company I served for three years and then one day someone calls me Mr. Kidanda do you know that so and so has been appointed to take your position I want you to know this because some people may not tell you experience of what goes on you are fighting for jobs you are trying to be appointed when you are appointed those days used to be appointed at one o'clock you could also be disappointed at one o'clock so even today you can be appointed and be disappointed there are people who just saw in the papers that their positions have been taken in the recent appointments so how do you handle that for the last five years you've been driven around and now you don't even have a car you had someone who was appointing the door for you ok now no one is opening the door and all this time you are spending your time with the people who are rioting if your friend buys a car you also buy a car if they change the TV you change the TV it happens I'm talking to these young people because that is that I'll give you one last time so I'm staying here in Westlands and my neighbor is competing with the other neighbor there are young people like us this is the early 80s ok so they buy a colored TV and I think his darling was saying how can we remain here with the white black and white they won't buy then this guy goes and buys a new car a saloon car this guy goes to the office ok he takes a loan buys a new car after a while this gentleman arrives with a range rover he has recently just taken a loan he doesn't know how this guy is working ok all he knows is that this guy he looks like my age mate our children so if he buys a car I'll buy a car let me tell you how this guy was buying a car this guy used to go and siphoned oil from pipeline he goes and takes a whole tanka few of charge and when he says it he can buy he can buy the range rover in those days so I want you to be level minded I want you as good Christians I thank God for the lesson for this lesson did you hear about covetousness did you read about it did it mean anything to you there are people who will not tell you these stories now I want you to take these stories look after your work be exceptional in your work do a good job your company is able to pay for you your medical bills do a good job your company is able to train you do a good job because there is a time that is coming and that company is going to restructure then you will find out you will find out how difficult it is to go to the hospital am I making sense to anyone here you know when you have the medical medical card you go to the hospital what happens when you are stretched and now you can't go to the hospital and you didn't invest in that line I am talking to you young professionals to be good stewards to learn how to save to learn how to invest learn how to invest last comment have you heard about Amazon have you heard about ebay how many of you buy through ebay just say I am not going to say a bad thing I want to tell you something that is happening to Africa that I want you to remember while Africans are fighting themselves in business Europe is merging to do business in Africa they are clearing and foreign companies are merging if you hear something it is a merger I wish I had one Ongeri Kidenda that I could work with learn to start working as a team and just be diligent in your work don't think that you can win that contract on your own you are going to borrow too much you will call your wife if you are married you will call your parents and everyone else learn to work in partnerships and just be faithful just be faithful to the work that you do so that you can grow it is no use working into the city here looking for contracts which are going to cause you to borrow a lot of money which you could have shared and then one day you are sold off I would like to kindly request that as good adventists as good professionals I am going to share with you my people professionalism in your work bring it in there and do it just like those other people are doing it be diligent in it and be willing to be patient to grow your business don't be in a hurry because when you get into a hurry you become corrupt you do not want to say it but it will force you to be corrupt it will cause you to get into debt that you cannot afford and yet you have partners here in church that you can partner with choose them well choose them well because even here in church they are conmen they will con you they will go with your man but look diligently look carefully and get into business because the government that used to employers you come from you come from graduation and you get a lot of appointment that government is no longer there there is no one who is going to give you that you are waiting for a lot of appointment even the teachers are not getting those letters of appointment I don't know whether I am making sense to you you must have a transformed mind and this professional body here can take you far if what my sister here is teaching you the things that they are talking about here if you put them in practice you will go far but if you walk alone you will walk long but you will not go far you will just be wasting money in things that you can't afford have I talked badly if I have talked badly forgive me but I wanted to tell you this because I see it I see it and I have walked it I have walked it I told you one time I was given a lot of the place where I was appointed I was now terminated on a fax machine they asked Mr. Kenanda are you there yes are you in your fax machine yes I got this appointment that you are looking for here unless you want to go and steal but you are there if you are going to you are better off doing your own business than going in some of the disappointments because at the end of the day at the end of the day you will pay idiot for it go and do it but I am saying be careful be faithful be a good steward in Jesus name