There was a little sign (written in Chinese) outside a 4-D shop
in my neighbourhood. It says: No. 1 cause of failure is:
Arrogance.
So, ordinary people understand the true nature of leadership or
elite approach. Leadership and elitism is inhabited by self and
self-ness. At one time, people frequently claim leadership quality
or talent. Then came the Asian Financial crisis that exposed
leaderships as self and root cause of financial collapses.
Subsequent large-scale corporate scandals in the aftermath of Asian
Financial crisis further confirmed self or self-centredness as the
root causes of company malpractices affecting many countries.
Talents, elitism, Asian value, and Confucianism relied upon to
justify leadership died off and subsided. Now leadership claims are
seen to make a fast come-back once the world economy is recovering
once more..
The falsehood about leadership is on the wall, of the 4-D shop
showing that people understand what it means. It is paradoxical
that the over-pragmatic is taking over the leading.
Many ultra-pragmatists including some found in forums are all over
pushing to keep to status quo with robust rebuttals of
non-conformist views. This has been the main problem to our pm's
call for change. He has to get his grassroot to let go and not be
over-zealous to stop people from airing views.
Just my two cents' worth..
