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Top Ten Lessons from Dr Yaw Perbi – #YawQUOTES 

1. Pivoting. COVID-19 required many things that were in-person to pivot online. That has led to increased reach. Today, we have leadership, impact, business and ministry without borders.  
2. The new world of work. For my executive programme, I have different managers operating seamlessly from different countries. This requires an understanding of the dance of leadership.  
3. Hybrids. The post-COVID-19 world will be an amphibian world; dominated by people who are able to excel both in-person and online. Those who can’t manage this shift will be caught out.  
4. Africa’s Season. COVID-19 could be Africa’s greatest opportunity and our season. We have more Christians than any other continent. We are ahead in mobile telephony penetration, mobile money and a number of potentially positive indicators. 
5. Destiny. I was almost not born alive. There was a medical complication that threatened my life; and my mother prayed and promised God that if I survived, I would be dedicated to him. 
6. Early Pointers. Responsibilities and leadership kept following me right from school. I acted as Jesus in my school play, was school prefect at various levels and got selected for three international leadership programmes. 
7. Interwoven threads. To the onlooker, my life may look scattered from medicine to ministry, to media to finance etc. But they are all interwoven and the common thread is leadership. 
8. Authentic Leadership. I have become a proponent of authentic and cross cultural leadership. More than ever before, the world needs GQ or Global Intelligent Quotient; an appreciation of different cultures and perspectives. 
9. The secular-sacred divine is not biblical. Jesus is interested in the whole world from Archaeology to Zoology. When the policeman or teacher or doctor understands that it is the work of the Lord, the world will be a better place. Secular work is full-time service.  
10. Christian Work Ethic. With the numbers we have, if Christians translate our faith into the marketplace, there will be total transformation all around us.