I have a small little feeling in me after i read this piece of news from The Star online. I am not being biased. Its just my own thinking and own feeling that i've got after i read that statement. Maybe its been altered and i have no intention to find all the truth all the time. Just little bit of time to think whether it make sense to make statement such as this by our own Prime Minister, the leader of our country. Read on more at here.
I have a feeling that he might not have the necessary ability, necessary thinking, necessary belief to think big enough and act big enough to lift the country to higher level in this age of globalisation. Seriously. Read carefully between the lines.
“Individual investors had also lost their entire life savings when their fund managers failed to deliver,” he added.
He said that such incidents could be avoided here if the nation’s human
capital possessed traits such honesty, trustworthiness and integrity.
What do you see and understand from the statement above? Is it:
a. He is a person who insists characteristics, good moral, good virtue is vitally important in every sense. A very good leader, who insists on the traits such as honesty bla bla bla, IMHO. A good islamic leader who follows vigoriously on every single good virtue in the book.
b. He overlooked the importance of the bigger picture globally. Financial institutions, critical decisions, economic policies, inter-country relationship, trade finance, attractions of countries to other funds investors, financial institutions worldwide and etc bla bla bla, which i think, is even more important than, "individual investors had also lost their entire life savings ....". I notice that he speaks the word "rakyat" more than our previous Dr.M.
No doubt that a good leader need to have BOTH! 110% agree and raised both hands and legs if necessary. But in my opinion, a leader of the country should be more focused on the option B and less focus in promoting the option A.
Realistically speaking, all those who corrupts, i.e. lack of honesty, integrity and trustworthiness have already solid A+ in "corruption" mindset pattern or black mind pattern. How do you teach them to be honest? Its just in their habit to tell lies or accept corruption all the time; consciously or subconsciously. Do you seriously think that cop by the street will not ask for corruption? *C'mon, be a realist!*
The only possible way to influence the trait of honesty is to change. CHANGE of people. Inforce a solid steel law that will punish those who are dishonest. I believe that is the only serious realistic way to change and turn the way of "honesty" around. Rather than to promote and influence those are corrupted for since last 20 years of his life. Pointless.....
Anyway, back to the point, i think Pak Lah is a good man. But i do not think that he have the necessary capability nor mindset to turn things around. Look at our neighbours who flourished. We ought to use the same concept of private / public corporation structure to be implemented in our government so that the government can effectively move if we are seriously thinking about movin forward (if not staying and moving backwards).
Examples of corporations such as Temasek competing globally against Arabic businessmen for a port in UK or our own Genting, competing against other consortium from overseas to bid for a casino in Sentosa Singapore or even our own YTL buying an energy company in UK?
We need a leader who have the same mentality of CEO of a company. A leader who can really make those critical decisions, who looks at the bigger picture, who can attracts investors from abroad to invest and dump their money to the country, who can influence the "rakyat" to have a better attitude in work rather than the poor mak cik who lost her $$$ in the stocks or mutual funds. A leader like Carlos Ghosn from Renault / Nissan or Nandan M. Nilekani from Infosys, India, to lead our country into the future.
What do you think? Make sense?
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