Good leaders are trailblazers, making a path for others to follow” -forbes.com
As global attention is riveted on the unfolding spectacle of digital media today, there are interesting parallels to draw from a brand that has endured for 25 years with a goal-getting General Manager, with enthusiastic commitment and dedication trajectory, Mr. Wahab Bashir, who clocks a year older recently.
CityPeople General Manager (Production) and Head of Online Department, Mr Wahab Bashir has been the man behind the scene, facilitating and initiating ideas, projections and modalities to keep the brand afloat and ahead of her contemporary amid the social media interruption into the media space.
For many who don’t know, the COVID-19 cum lockdown era literally “murdered” print media for about a month or two while others grasp for breath. We were supposed to “stay at home” for months” while we wait for an uncertain end.
Mr Wahab walked into Oga’s office and insisted, “Oga, we can’t just go home and fold our arms. It is in the desperate moment of brainstorm that CityPeople Digital Edition was birthed.
During the lockdown period, he will drive from his house to everyone’s area, he will pick all of us and take us down to the office, and repeat the same routine when we close at the very eve of the night before he goes home. This was at the high point of COVID.
Based on his wealth of experience he knew the needs and nuances of the company like the lines on his palms. So, he hit the ground running.
He has changed the leadership narrative and has become a reference point to other staff and management within the administrative context.
However, to be on the good side of history and more significantly to become better by the day, let us attempt answers from Mr. Wahab’s life experiences.
Especially, those that have stood him in good stead.
Little wonder that the online department achieved so much and more.
Both he and his woman of virtue have their lives firmly rooted in God. She is there as a pillar of support and as one who has stood by him through thick and thin. Besides, is their humility and tracing every success to the throne of Allah.
Whenever the online team wants to REBEL, he will tell us “No matter how much strategy that you have read in school or how much work you have done, …if it is working back- to -back and consistently, there has to be some other source that is making it work because *you are just one out of several others*.
*He does all that we do: Online, Fashion, Party, and gets busy with production!*
How he juggles all these as a quinquagenarian is the more reason why one has to be very sober and humble, to actually know that there is a source of strength to make him cope and that has to be God.”
From Online Department: Damilare, Sunday, Jamiu, Nurudeen , Damilola , Laolu, and Seun...
We say many happy returns, our dear, iconic boss.
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