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TOPIC: ISSUE99 - "In any realm of life-whether academic, social, business, or political-the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options."
WORDS: 509 TIME: 01:30:57 DATE: 2009-5-22 15:46:06
Pragmatic behavior is the essential means for us to survival in this society which is full of competitions and opportunities. In the realm of business, when pragmatic is mentioned, we always associate it with money or other immediate efforts. Admittedly, Pragmatic behavior can guarantee us to have enough money to buy food and achieve our short-term goals though an efficient and rapid way. However, I am certainly not a realist. I don't think a person with only practical views and pragmatic behaviors in mind can succeed.
A practical way to run a company is to try their best to earn as much money as possible. Some companies indeed reach it. San Lu group is one of the most famous diary factories in China. However, in 2008, it was found to sell baby milk powder tainted with toxic materials used in industry to children. The factory’s inspectors can not prevent the toxic milk powder from feeding to infants. Some infants died after drinking the powdered milk, and many other children took ill or had acute kidney failure. It is sarcastically that the belief of that factory is "to give a strong body and a better life for kids". Some executives in "SanLu" may argue," it is impossible for only our company to achieve this belief, and it is just an advertisement. We have so many workers, a wise and practical method is to earn a lot of money to pay the workers and run this company." However, this "wise and practical" suggestion leads a burst-up to this big factory.
It is so danger to only take a practical view. Now Jack may say " I have a glorious ideal, then I will success if I always keep it in mind." It is regret that a beautiful garden built in the air without foundation can not assure a "living happy after" life to you. The experience of Robert Owen is a vivid case to Jack.
Owen is a typical idealist. He bought 30,000 acres land in Indian in 1824, decided to test his idea of community in American of which concept was quiet different from Karl Marx’s. After only 4 years, His New Harmony Model co-operative community experiment failed as the settlement becoming overcrowded and the chaos developed.
From what is mentioned above, it is certainly to draw a conclusion that an ideal is the direction of life, without which, we are just on our way to become a mechanized and materialized savage, while pragmatic behavior is the means to achieve the ideal which can prevent us from being the mere visionary dreamer. Only to have a pragmatic behavior while keeping a great ideal in mind can we succeed.
The ideal of the Republic of China is to become a communistic society. How does it come true when the nation still has the highest wealth gap between urban and rural, and a 30% illiteracy rate in Tibet. The down-to-earth policy is to eliminate the social inequality and to enhance the quality of education. The Chinese government has already taken some practical and efficient policies, such as taking reform in education, increasing the financial aid to rural and encouraging people to help develop economy and culture of rural. Although the ideal is hard to realize, it will be waiting in corner on the way if we go step by step with a down-to-earth action and an inspiring ideal. |
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