"To Serve Is to Live" is an autobiographical journey of reflection on leadership thoughts and action in nation-building in Nigeria. It covers a period from the 1970s when as a nineteen-year old student-leader, the author first began to interact closely with senior government officials of cabinet ranking, through to the closing months of the second millennium, though with additional appraisal of the Nigerian state in the 21st century, so far.
It is also a story of character building, the search for values in a society that sometimes appears drained of all things dear. For the most part, it is a tale of persistent quest to be principle-centred in the pursuit of what the author calls the two "immortalities". In pursuit of spiritual and material immortality, the author finds a common denominator: sacrifice for the common good otherwise known as a sense of service. In reviewing the evolution of the Nigeria political economy, Pat Utomi uses the measure of service as life to evaluate how Nigeria has been led. using the unique style almost akin to novel writing in treating very weighty issues, he develops a very readable book that captures the soul of the Nigerian experience. This inspiring book is recommended to captains of industry, politicians, economic thinkers and youths of all persuasions.The Author
Pat Utomi is a political economist, management scholar and newspaper columnist. His career spans a Presidential Advisory position in government at the age of 27, the distinction of being the first Nigerian to be named deputy chief executive of Volkswagen of Nigeria at the age of 32 and an academic career as one of the most senior faculty members of the prestigious Lagos Business School from inception. He is the award winning author of the Business Policy Book, Managing Uncertainty: Competition and Strategy in Emerging Economies.
Pat Utomi is a Lagos Business School faculty member. LBS was founded in 1991 as a management development organization offering non-degree professional development programmes to practicing managers. In January 2002 the Federal Government of Nigeria approved the application of LBS to be raised to the status of a private university as part of Pan-African University . From that moment the Lagos Business School became the first school of Pan-African University and became able to run degree programmes in Business Administration. LBS started its Part-time (Executive) MBA in 2002, the Full-time MBA in June 2003 and a Doctorate Degree programme in Management in October 2006.
LBS places a special premium on developing a deep knowledge of what it takes to do business successfully in the Nigerian environment.
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