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Execution-based Execution-based Leadership Leadership Emerging Africa Emerging Africa What Media could do What Media could do Gilles Atayi Managing Partner, G&A Business Solutions
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PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION 2 : AFRICA: THE EMERGING CONTINENT Narrative: Political transition, citizens’ engagement, security threats and the awakening of the African economic giant: are the African media fit to report on these multiple challenges? Session Chair: Charles Onyango-Obbo (Executive Editor, Africa / Digital Media Division, Nation Media Group) Panelists: Denis Kadima (Executive Director EISA and Political Transition Expert), Jenerali Ulimwengu(Media Commentator, Tanzania), Cheriff Moumina Sy (Chairperson of the African Editors’ Forum) , Dele Olojede (Pulitzer Award Journalist and AMI Board member) and Kemal Öztürk, Director General Anadolu Agency, Turkey)
Transcript of Gilles Atayi - Emerging Africa
Execution-based LeadershipExecution-based Leadership
Emerging AfricaEmerging Africa
What Media could doWhat Media could do
Gilles Atayi
Managing Partner, G&A Business Solutions
Understand what our challenges are
• Botswana
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Maurice
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
•Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Chad
•Congo Brazzaville
• Cote d’Ivoire
• D.R. Congo
• Gabon
• Madagascar
• Niger
• Togo
12 Anglophone and 11 pays Francophone countries
Engaged with more than 400 executives in sub-Saharan Africa
At micro level
1. Low trust culture
2. Poor Engagement level – Lack of accountability
3. No shared Vision, different priorities and no alignment between partners
4. Urgency syndrome and severe lack of planning
At organisational level, our challenges manifest in the form of:
At macro level
At country level, our challenges manifest in the form of:
1. Poor Health system for our urban and rural communities.
2. Ineffective Education and Gender equality policies
3. Inadequate Energy and Infrastructure policies
4. Food Insecurity
5. Poor Protection for people
6. Lack of Responsibility and positive Influence
Emerging Africa challenges
Win the Health for our urban & rural communities battle
Emerging Africa challenges
Win the Education and gender equality battle
Emerging Africa challenges
Win the Energy and Infrastructure battle
Emerging Africa challenges
Win the Food security battle
Emerging Africa challenges
Win the Protection for People battle
Emerging Africa challenges
Win the Responsibility & Influence battle
Can we “Emerge”?
At macro level
1. Heath for our urban and rural communities.
2. Education and Gender equality
3. Energy and Infrastructure
4. Food Security
5. Protection for people
6. Responsibility and Influence
1. Low trust culture within the organisation
2. Poor Engagement level – Lack of
accountability
3. No shared Vision, different priorities and
no alignment between partners
4. Urgency syndrome and severe lack of
planning
At micro level
A new paradigm
A new perspective
A new mental map
A new « SIM card to be on the network »
A Evolution?
A Revolution
What weapons?
What weapons do we have to win these grand battles?
YOUBut potentially ONLY!
Emerging Africa challenges
Before anything, (technology, sciences, finances, etc…), we need a
critical mass of women and men of vision, courage and character,
of integrity, of generosity, of compassion, of sacrifice who can rally
us behind the great causes.
30 criteria , 6 competencies.
Will you inspire the necessary transformation, so that together we
can win these significant battles?
Food for thought
“People don’t do because they are told to, but because they want to.”
What weapons?
What weapons do we have to win these grand battles?
YOUPotentially!
