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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: 558
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-3-16 11:25:58
Is it necessary that leadership should be revitalized through certain short period of time for any profession? In my view, this is merely a possible solution rather than the surest path to success as the speaker claims. The success in any profession cannot all be attributed to those in power, such as managers in business corporations, presidents in political party, and principals of colleges and prime ministers of governments. After all, there are other factors like institution and macro environment influence whether we can achieve our goals.
Revitalization through new leadership does bring opportunities to succeed. We should admit that new leaders always bring in new ideas to solve long-lasting problems, and their former experience may give some inspiration to their co-workers, which will benefit the whole group. Consider the situation in colleges. When a new principal of Business School, who has been abroad working and teaching for years, was in accession, it is likely that he or she will come up with enlightening solutions for effective instruction provided for their students. The solutions may be a new way to attract students’ attention, a new scheme for vocation intern or something else that would prepare the students better for the competitive business world. Thus, by revitalizing leadership, the Business School in college gains some opportunity in favor of improving its education quality.
However, such case is not the representative of all possible outcomes of revitalization in leadership. As with opportunities, it also brings in challenges, or even risks, against their original desire. In the world of politics, each election for leaders will probably cause unrest in public psychology, especially in those countries where conflictions between different parties are fierce. Or in some countries suffering from financial crisis, any changes in the board of leadership will possibly worsen its economy, for their trade partners fear the trade policy will be altered by the new leadership. Under such situations, the revitalization in leadership is more like a potential harm rather than benefit, no matter to its own citizens or to its economy.
Besides, the speaker suggests that five years should be the normal term for those in power in any profession. In my view, this is neither desirable nor practical to apply. For example, the policies aimed at boosting economy may not receive certain effects until five or more years. If the leaders are revitalized before the positive effects are obtained, the new leaders would like to change the policy due to the public pressure. However, the new policies may take longer time than the previous one that it can not achieve goals in the term of new leaders. Education is similar since it takes much more than five years to test the effectiveness of certain education system. Even if we account only from the primary school to college graduation, it takes at least sixteen years, which cannot be determined in any term less than five years. Revitalization in leadership is likely to break the consistency of policy, which will hurt the final goals.
In sum, to achieve success in any profession, revitalization is not the surest path but only a possible solution. Considering the risk it contains in damaging public trust and consistency of policy, we should be more discreet when we want to revitalize the leaders to attain our goals in a short period of time like five years.
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