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HONOUR IN LEADERSHIP

LEADS TO SUCCESS
LEADS TO SUCCESS

FARZANAH MALL 2017 finalists and winners of the sponsors who have served during my
Outgoing president of the Businesswoman of the Year Awards. term. You are bold women and men
Businesswomen’s Association Congratulations! You are phenomenal who inspire me with your commitment,
trailblazers and exceptional leaders who dedication and sacrifice to support,
t has certainly been a year of rise above the status quo and give me empower, develop and grow women and
contrasts. It reminds me of what hope at a time when the world children in our beautiful country.
ICharles Dickens said in a Tale of is in crisis. You showed me your courage to
Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it I would also like to stand up for what’s right, to
was the worst of times, it was the age pay tribute to the challenge unacceptable
of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, board of directors, norms and that, with
it was the season of Light, it was the regional unity, a smile, a hand, a
season of Darkness, it was the spring of chairpersons, the kind
Hope, it was the winter of Despair” ... various thought, you can
for as much as we have advanced in committees, overcome adversity
terms of science, innovation and staff, judges and shape the world.
technology, we have in many ways and . SEE PAGE 23
regressed in terms of creating a better
world for humanity, one which is fair
and ethical.
Globally, we are not only experiencing
a business and economic recession but
also a geopolitical recession, brought on
by a lack of faith in those entrusted in
leading governmental and business
institutions. Great leadership is linked
with great character. It is for this
reason that the Businesswomen’s
Association has chosen the theme:
Women with no filter – Celebrating
leaders who honour themselves and
others.
Some people start their leadership
journey with pure wealth creation on
their mind. Others start it with the
hope that they will create a better
future and use their knowledge and
intelligence wisely to empower and
develop themselves and others. Along
the path of leadership come ego and
power together with status and wealth.
Many become consumed by titles and
positions, becoming indebted to those
who have placed them in positions of
power or to those who can enable them
to rise to more power, compromising
their values for personal gain or greed.
Leaders are forgetting that leadership
comes with the responsibility to lead
with competence, honour, integrity,
truth and wisdom. This year the
Businesswomen’s Association celebrates
leaders whose essence embodies
qualities of grace, truth, wisdom and
excellence. They honour themselves by
being the best they can be, staying true
to who they are without pretension,
acknowledging both their successes and
development areas with humility and
humaneness; and they honour others by
recognising that success is a team
effort. They invest in creating
opportunities for others and they lead
by example.
In a period of contrasts, I am
extremely pleased to acknowledge the