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TOPIC: ISSUE70 - "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." WORDS:
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DATE: 04/01/2010 15:50:12 The speaker alleges that leadership should be alternated every five years in any fields, which can be regarded as the most reliable way to success. I agree with the contention insofar that revitalization can reject the dross and bring fresh blood to the community in some areas and under certain conditions. Nevertheless, other key factors like devotion and experience are also vital to engender success. To begin with, as a threshold matter, a short period of leadership would help diminish autocracy and abuse of power. On one hand, long-term leadership may give the leaders a sense of security of their position such that they may not progress and perform as diligently as when they are just entitled the power and serve at the best of the enterprise. On the other hand, great success, fame, wealth and respect from subordinates can sway the leaders into corruption and downhill. The avalanche of corruption cases happening around the world every year would be an impressive empirical evidence of this. Another paradigmatic example would be Chairman Mao, who led a large group of communists go through difficult struggle and founded the People's Republic of China, after which, he had been extremely respected and crazily admired by the public. However, only in less than ten years, he began to be egoistic in governing and started the Cultural Revolution without thoroughly considering any objections. The harmful result is that China stopped progressing for at least ten years. In one word, human beings are born with flaws, and long-term power may alternate an initially wise and sensible leader into a arrogant one.
Secondly, by maintaining a competitive mechanism, the enterprise can replenish itself with new ideas and methodology continuously. Newly engaged leaders may render new methods of leading and managing and more like to perform at his/her best in order to gain prestige among the community, which is convincingly true in the business field, in which management ideas are easily becoming obsolete. A sales-oriented company will perhaps be more profitable should a new leader begins to focus on reducing costs; staffs in a company with rigid corporate rules may feel unstressed and more cooperative and productive if the new leader is genial and does not lay extremely much burden on them. Moreover, a new leader will work with fresh insights and contagious excitement which may motivates staffs a lot. Nevertheless, under certain conditions, success of an enterprise may spring from more crucial elements like devotion and experience. In the realm of entrepreneurship, in which the entrepreneur will look after his/her company like his/her own child, will seldom abuse his/her power and let the enterprise slow down developing. For example, Bill Gates has been the CEO of Microsoft for almost 20 years, yet the company is still among the most competitive and has the largest share of customers in the industry of operating system. It is not only Gate's wisdom but also his devotion to the company that leads to the continuing success of Microsoft. Another telling example could be the leadership concerning supervision of graduating classes in a high school in China. As we know, universities in China are not easy to get in and graduating students are required to compete harshly and acquire high enough scores to enter a university. Thus a more experienced supervisor will be more familiar with examination tactics, how to deal with students' psychological stress and encourage students more effectively. To sum up, there is no doubt that this renewal mechanism will benefit an enterprise in a way that it results in new ideas and vitality as well as that it keep leaders from abusing their power and not behaving at the best of the enterprise. However, the surest path to success may involve many other essentials. | 
发表于 2010-1-7 09:03:29
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