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70"In any profession—business, politics, education, government—those in power should step down after five years. The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership."
分成了非盈利和盈利组织
1. 任期限制防止滥用权力
2. 常换领导利于及时纠正错误,不断创新
3. 在商业领域,情况不能简单考虑
Power, a tricky word, sometimes plays a crucial role in helping achieve one's feat, but sometimes it may destroy one's mind or even life. How to handle it? In my view, in those nonprofit areas, the leader, who holds power should step down after a limited tenure, maybe as the speakers asserts, five years. It is a proper path to keep enforcing the strength of an organization. While in some for-profit areas, the situation is more complicated.
To begin with, in those nonprofit areas, mostly a democratic organization, such as in politics education and government, the leader is usually elected by the mass and serves as the one whom in charge of the public. Take a democratic society and a feudal society for a comparison. The president of the former is elected by the public. He is empowered by the public and takes in charge of the country in his tenure, usually four to five years. If he wants to continue his leading role, he has to perform outstanding in his tenure and win the support and confidence from the mass of people in the country. On the contrary, as Sir Acton once said: absolute power leads to absolute corruption, the leader in a feudal society, the seigneur, has no fear of losing his power, is usually inclined to abuse it. History has informed us that hundreds of seigneurs in the past who abused their power were finally toppled by his people and earned a poor ending. For the well-being of the organization, the priority rule is to avoid the leader from abusing his power.
In the second place, another advantage of a limited tenure of the leader is to have a opportunity to bring new ideas and justify the mistakes of the past in time. Let us still focus on a democratic society, the new president who take the former one's position is surely the one who performed exceptional in his previous related job, which in another word, he is also a man with great ability. For a wise president, he has to possess both passion and calmness in his mind. Passion means he has the willing of leading his country stepping forward. Calmness represents that he has the ability to find the deficiencies of the former’s work and modifies them in his tenure. If it is not a democratic society, conscious or unconscious, the leader may possibly fail to detect his mistakes, let alone admit them and justify them. The society is more likely to follow a biased direction and accordingly harms the public's benefits.
However, although in most of the places, the method of limited tenure functions well, the essential standard to judge it is whether the condition of the organization is improved. In some areas, usually, in business field, to complete a long run goal some enterprises do not follow this rule. Especially in those enterprises whose top leader is also the founder of the company. Donald Trump, the most successful business leader in realty of the world. His enterprise is growing gradually under his leadership period by period. Hardly is there anyone has the courage to criticize his leadership. Instead, millions of people are dreaming to be his apprentice. Business is entirely different from politics, to achieve the goal is the most important and democracy means little to such area. The one who owns the company, if he is also the executive leader, would never give up his power until he has fulfill his goal.
In sum, to limit the leader’s tenure may serve well in those nonprofit democratic organizations. To those for-profit areas, such as in business, the situation is more complex. |
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