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Leadership, as we define it, is of vital importance to the survival and prosperity of almost any profession, which were particularly true in the realm of business, politics and education. Periodic leadership, by which I mean that those in power step down after a period of time, will add vitality and fresh blood to the system that will otherwise degenerate to stagnancy and rigidity. At the same time, we should avoid cursory decision since the changes of leadership usually result in new round of adjustment and renovation.
Admittedly, it is beneficial to establish competitive mechanism to set the whole system run properly and energetically. In the field of business where the product innovation and staff morale is leading to sustainable development, leaders, regarded as the soul of enterprises, should be well alert to the danger of arrogance and rigidity. Human nature reveals to us that no matter how capable and aggressive a hard-rider leader may seem to be, after long time of staying in the same place, handing the same stuff, the work that they once exhorted as revolutionary will be reduced to routine and boredom. Another draw to this life-long leadership is that this will freeze morale since nobody sees the possibility of promotion which is make possible through job fluidity and rearrangement of staff. The third problem involved is that facing a business world full of dramatic change, leaders that hold the office too long is deprived of creative thinking and as a result, instill fresh blood to the enterprise with innovative blueprints might appear to be a paramount power. Examples are abundant to illustrate this phenomenon. We always observe on newspapers that after staying in a office for a few years, a leader stepped down to be replaced by a new one whom were accolade by commentaries to bring a new round of reformation and revitalization.
This is also true in the political realm where life-long domination will result in power abuses, which will damage our dogma of democratic society. Psychological tells us that if leaders feel their post is not steady, they tend to be cautious of their own doing and are likely to rationally utilize their power for the fear of being overthrew from their shine, losing self dignity as well as personal achievement. In the US, this is well uttered in the presidential office term changed every five years. Comparing with the aristocratic and monarchic society, people get better access to public affairs, human rights and justice. Nixon’s Watergate scandal convince us that no government executive were endowed the right of power abuses and anyone neglecting the public scrutiny and democratic essence will be replaced by leaders with a better understanding of it.
However, such a generalization lacks sufficient justification under certain circumstances. For one thing that frequently changed leadership will distract the enterprise and political system and cause instability and thus decision of the proper duration of office years worth the effort of careful analyzing. Another point is that for those successful entrepreneurs and politicians wining public respect and abstain great achievement, we should allow them stay longer in order to benefit more from their contribution. (在这里可以加入成果企业连任的企业家,和民主国家连任的总统的例子).
In the final analysis, although I agree fundamentally with the speakers’ claim that serving a office too long will engender stagnancy and rigidity or even arrogance of leaders, in business arena as well political realm alike. On the other hand, I found that in some cases this claim is problematic since some leaders do demonstrate great leading strategy, respectful self-dignity and courageous innovative will. And I see nothing wrong for these leaders to stay in power comparatively longer period. |
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