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If I Were a Leader

Monday Apr 30 2007

I’ve been musing about David Suzuki’s campaign some more…. If I were leader of a major nation, I think I’d be overwhelmed by all the input from every imaginable camp, not to mention the politics of decision-making and the drift toward ‘governance by poll’. I don’t think there is a centralized institution in the world capable of taking on all the items that need to be addressed in the timeframes that are necessary if anything will make a difference. The only viable strategy I see for addressing the myriad problems confronting us as a society is the same strategy corporations have found is central to their viability: specifically, to inspire and empower people to declare their personal responsibility for the issues they care about and then take on projects and initiatives to do something about them. In other words, we can’t wait for ‘them’ to do it for us.
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Written by Jim Selman at Leadership
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