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Sunday, 9 October 2016

7 LAWS OF POWER USED BY LEADERS AND CELEBS TO ENCHANT THEIR FOLLOWERS

The book “48 laws of power” was written by Robert Greene, first published in 2000 in the United States. This is a very insightful book, opening minds into how leaders in the past maintained their power, detailing how some who could not observe these rules lost their powers and sometimes paid ultimate price losing their life.

While we should all keep in mind that there are no universal laws to acquiring wealth or power and many of the personalities never a code to maintaining their written in any book, we cannot however learn from the success and failings of others, so we might not make the same mistake or so we can achieve what took them years to figure out in a short while.

In my observations over time, I discovered many of these rules are still applicable in our society. Many of our leaders and popular celebrities have either subconsciously or consciously followed or ignored these rules, and it certainly has paid off or backfired either ways. So let’s share some of this rules with their applications in our contemporary world;

1.      GUARD YOUR REPUTATION WITH YOUR LIFE: Reputation is very much important, probably the most important after your life. What people think of you, their perception of you depends on how you portray yourself, even when people lie about and spread rumors there is always an element of truth in it, so guard your reputation at all cost. An example is US stand with democracy and observance of fundamental human laws, a country inhumane laws knows that US will not publicly support it at least. Notice the popular celebrities Jay Z and BeyoncĂ©, they never discuss their personal issues in public, sometimes ago when it was reported that Queen B’s sister slapped Jay Z in an elevator, both of them never made comments as to the cause of that and this has helped to greatly keep their fan base.

2.      COURT ATTENTION AT ALL COST: There is the saying, there is no such thing has bad publicity so long as you are in the news, it does not matter why you are. see every opportunity to do something as a means get known. To those just getting off with their careers this is very important, be ready to do volunteer jobs. A lot of time senior colleagues might give assignments that are not related to your job, always leave a good impression regardless.

Sometimes ago the dead Kola Olawuyi, published a story on whom who claims to be God, if you watch or listen I’m pretty sure you will be amazed by how convinced she is that she is God and that alone has given her attention, using some elements of mystery people will want to listen to you, even if they might want to leave latter you have made an impression. When you look at celebrities like Kim K and sisters even though they did things people considered unacceptable, they got the attention needed and has maintained a large fan base since then, making millions in the fashion and entertainment industry.

3.      CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES: Involving yourself in too many adventures might make you less productive, find something you are very skillful at and put all your energies into it, you will achieve more. We often advised these days to put our energies into all we can but we should learn from stories of people like Mark Zuckerberg, Trump and Bill Gates. They continue to channel their investment towards the same line they started with, Trump’s father was into real estate and he focused more on it and he is highly successful today at it. Glo focused at providing data cheaply, now they hold the largest share of mobile phone users in Nigeria.

4.      ENTER ACTION WITH BOLDNESS: These I can give to Nigerian politicians who has been accused of one crime or the other especially the current senate leadership, regardless of these alleged crimes, they maintained a public image, showing no fear or cowardice at any point in time.


Having doubts at the beginning of an event is a recipe for failure, especially when you leading people. Followers will abandon their leader at any sense of weakness, this was how PDP gradually lost the last election, they often showed cowardice in many events they could have boldly maintained their stand. Obasanjo’s tenure is by far the most successful, all because of his approach to issues and till date no one can question him, he is forever highly respected by both citizens and leaders.  

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