• Why Stanbic IBTC and Standard Chartered Bank MDs outclass their male peers
Power and acclaim, fancy titles and luxury make bitches of grown men. Many a grown woman suffer such pitiful transformation too, from modesty to monstrosity. Indeed the frills of affluence and kicks of fancy title have caused too many women to mutate into flamboyant monsters prowling the corridors of high society. Be it as wives of prominent politicians and powerful industry titans, too many women have turned brutes, simply because money and power accord them such luxury.
But Bola Adesola and Sola David Borha are remarkably different. The Managing Directors (MDs) of Standard Chartered Bank and Stanbic IBTC respectively cut brilliant portraits of genius and modesty.
Unlike too many of their male and female counterparts in positions of power in the banking sector and other industries, Adesola and Borha are never haughty or guilty of false modesty. They are no painted faces, chained to false personas by a common yearning to exploit and defraud. Neither do they play pretend in a dark industrial Ponzi scheme in which all the characters are frauds.
Adesola and Borha rather epitomise the finest of Nigeria’s league of extraordinary leading ladies.
Findings revealed that their unparalleled exploits in the finance sector led to their rapid, steady ascent the corporate ladder in an industry erstwhile dominated by men. The fact that each woman presides and calls the shots atop two of Nigeria’s most successful foreign-owned business enterprises, confirms their brilliance and inspiring exploits in the nation’s banking industry, according to pundits.
The two women are so disciplined. They affect a cultured, modest professional work ethic thus they are not given to frivolities or extravagance of any kind. They do not dress obscenely neither are they obsessed with vulgar and expensive jewelry. They are very simple in outlook and character and their banks are doing pretty well.
The duo no doubt assert by their work, that the purpose of human life and industry is to serve diligently and show compassion and the will to help others. In their prime, they radiate a fire from within that burns brilliantly and true, brightening their features and framing the feline girth that shelters their persona. Their compassion and will, like preternatural folds of flesh, serve as furrowed pillows to their speech and windows to a femininity that captivates almost too often at first glance.
Left to the duo, anyone who considers his or her occupation, merely a means of earning money degrades it; Adesola and Borha see in their calling, a service to mankind thus they persistently seek to ennoble their office and their work.
Cloaked in swathes of moral and pleasant punch lines masqueraded as sardonic humour, the two women flaunt that rare spark and spiritedness that most women of their ilk suffer a dearth of.
There is no limit to their excellence, and they could do just about anything to guarantee the attainment of set personal and corporate goals. Left to the duo, walking the talk and doing their bit is the only comfort and assurance that they are truly human.
This can hardly be said of their peers, many of whom are fixated with material pursuits and other worldly vanities. The desperately seek to live like rock stars and emperors. They acquire the finest and most expensive cars, houses, trophy wives, toy boys and so on.
