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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: 733 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2006-11-22
提纲:
1, 领导者会感到疲劳, 并在工作中失去自己的判断力 +
2, 领导者会失去创造力 +
3, 5年过于绝对, 应依据情况而定 -
4, 经验和传统的持续性很中 -
Modern democratic nations have mostly built authority systems which change their leaders in several years and limit any one from holding his power for long. I think this is quit correct and effectively since those who are in power may be tired and cannot bring new things after staying in a consistently stable position. However, the limiting time is too extreme to be defined as five years. For revitalizing an enterprise, changes of its leaders and other powerful positions should consider about special situations.
Commonsense tells us that there is no one who is perfect and always full of passion. Even the most intelligent leader may feel tired and out of control one day, though in many situations he cannot feel it--therefore holding on power and make wrong decisions. A striking example involves our nation's first chairman, Mao Zedong, who is considered as very outstanding and powerful. During his early years, Mao won the wars against Japanese and other enemies. Then he built an effective economical system from the establishment of PRC to 1950s. But after a long-time office, Mao became overpowered and lacked of sufficient consideration, resulted in several manmade disasters from which China suffered a lot. I think this is because a person's vitalization is limited that he cannot stand on a effective way to rule with limpid views. After several years' work, he may become tired and easily influenced by those who work besides him, with little rational choice.
Another advantage for enterprises to change their powerful members is that such a way can bring new thoughts and policy to the enterprises, which are possibly beneficial for them. Since a person's thoughts are limited, we may easily turn to others, after his intellects are all tapped. A person, no matter how hard he studies and learns new knowledge from media, is likely to run out of creation and be restricted in his own sight. During this period, it is necessary for others to join in. For instance, the famous Japanese architect, Taoda Ando, had designed many creative buildings in last century. However, he failed in several competitions in some recent projects, since he only maintained his way to analyze and design, but lacked of creative ideas. As claimed in his new book, Ando benefited a lot from his assistants, who are mostly students and new members in his group, and then managed to design with a totally new form which is diversified from those he designed in past. This design won him a project of a museum in the United States in 2003. It seems to me that people can only change their perspectives fundamentally when consider about others. And for enterprises, leaders and managers can change their unreasonable old thoughts by cooperating with those who are new in it, since they can see the situation originally with a by standing view.
Nevertheless, it is stated that five years should be a limited time, which seems to extreme for me. As we know, the voting period of the president of the United States is four years, and a president cannot hold on his position for more than 8 years. But in many business enterprises, leaders may take longer time to realize his plan, therefore making them take longer time in office. Bill Gates, for instance, had taken part as the CEO of Microsoft for almost twenty years, during which time the company grew from a small one to one of the world's biggest companies. If Gates had not worked for so long in Microsoft, it would have been hard for him to develop so many operating systems, including DOS, Windows 3.0 and so forth, which brought Microsoft what it has today. A consistent ideal for an enterprise is important and can be effectively maintained when one or several people in power keep on. Smaller enterprises, like schools, companies and so forth, are not placing so much pressure so that their leaders can hold on longer.
To sum up, since individuals are often limited in their spirits, and may be restricted by their formed thoughts, it is important for any enterprise to keep an open mind to all competitive members for its positions in power. As long as the enterprises are willful to obtain revitalization, and as long as they properly maintain an effective tradition and their members' experiences, they will grow fast and help the society with more property and happiness.
[ 本帖最后由 iq28 于 2007-6-23 12:20 编辑 ] |
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