“A child who watches the fire will one day carry the flame.” — African proverb

Leadership development in many Nigerian organisations is often treated as a search exercise: recruit externally, hire seniors, promote rapidly and hope competence appears. Yet the organisations that have consistently produced resilient leadership pipelines have relied not on luck, but on apprenticeship — the deliberate transfer of judgement, responsibility and culture over time. Apprenticeship is sometimes mistaken for a

“A child who watches the fire will one day carry the flame.” — African proverb

Leadership development in many Nigerian organisations is often treated as a search exercise: recruit externally, hire seniors, promote rapidly and hope competence appears. Yet the organisations that have consistently produced resilient leadership pipelines have relied not on luck, but on apprenticeship — the deliberate transfer of judgement, responsibility and culture over time. Apprenticeship is sometimes mistaken for a