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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."
As keeping power is essential to stability and continuity, and revitalization is an access to creation and vigor, whether leaders should abdicate in a short time or insist in a long time is a problem worth considering, since people from different professions have myriad of views. However, I believe, whether changing leader in certain interval should be discussed case by case.
In the field of politics, limiting the term of leadership is an effective way to prevent corruption. Sir Acton, great connoisseur, said (and I paraphrase)” absolute power leads to absolute corruption”. People are inclined to be avaricious and greedy, involving those in power. When facing the considerable money, the political leader tends to abuse their power in case that there is no supervise or fear of losing their puissance, especially having stayed for a long period of time. Sometimes, they even risk danger of obeying the law to obtain personal profit. The corruption will not only threaten the power of the government and themselves, but blemish the people’s trust to government. Hence, limiting the leader’s tenure is an effective approach to prevent corruption as well as instill new ideas. The scorching election of America president, holing every five years, aptly illustrates the point of view. It is the proper policy that prescribing president has to revote every five years leading America’s prosperity today.
When it comes to the realm of business, comparing with the desire for new power to promoting the government, keeping the enterprise stable and consistent is the primary goal to an enterprise. Almost every large-scale enterprise which has a history of hundreds of years are managed and controlled by an unchangeable leader, especially in dilemma. Among illustrations of this truth which might be cited, Haier, an electric enterprise leaded by Ruimin Zhang, furnishes a cogent example. Twenty years ago, Haeir met fierce competition as a fridge manufacture. Haier was to close down, at that time, ruiming zhang, leader of Haier, no doubt fell into the distrust and censure, on the point of continuing using Ruiming Zhang or employing a new leader from other enterprise, Haier made a wise decision to reemploy Ruiming Zhang. Then the outstanding enterpriser, using his familiarity of haier, brought haier out of quandary. And Haier becomes top500 enterprises of the world.
In most of professions such as education and larger business, the combination of the two ways is beneficial for their developing. Some of old leaders are so traditional and conservative that they can not catch up with modern pace and accept reforms or creations, and undoubtedly they should step down and make room for new ones, yet others who possess rich education or business experience should continuously perform their function in their areas. Otherwise, not only do new leaders definitely bring fresh blood, ample energy and new thoughts into their organizations but sometimes they are conceited, impertinent, presumptuous, immature and unskillful. So as I think, the effective combination of these two types of leaders, with their mutual complement or improvement, will bring huge merits to these professions.
In conclusion, the time of changing leaders is determined by the specific areas. Political leaders should be revitalized in a short time in order to make them uncorrupted. In the business arena, enterprise should stabilize the manager to ensue future
[ 本帖最后由 flycc28 于 2006-8-20 22:52 编辑 ] |
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