Awatif Yahya

I chose to highlight two women examples in my book because their stories resonate with my own experience. But these examples are just a glimpse. Countless individuals, across industries and generations, some famous, some not, attribute their success to the support and mentorship of leaders in their orbits. Leadership has ripple effects. It shapes careers, builds confidence, and changes lives. This is why the work we are doing matters. My book pre-sale page officially ended on March 9th, but...

During a recent conversation on the topic of leadership, I was confronted with a provocative idea: that a leader is nothing more than a dictator with charisma!     At first, the statement made me pause. While catchy, this oversimplification misses the critical distinctions between leadership and tyranny. Then, I was determined to make a case against this thinking.   Leadership is not centered around manipulation or personal magnetism; it’s about mindset, skill, and purpose. It goes back to...

Dictators don't start off as dictators; there is a progressive spectrum that takes them from wanting to do good, to the “I know it all mentality”. The spectrum starts off from:   Communicator ⇒ Facilitator ⇒ Leader ⇒ Autocrat ⇒ Dictator ⇒ Tyrant ⇒ Despot  The seven stages above are not inclusive of all possible negative progression. There are other characteristics in between such as domineering, coercive, narcissistic, exploitative, disingenuous, condescending, deceitful, dogmatic and...