Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Just Maybe


Maybe quite a lot of people have being a little harsh about f-face... and maybe @ first he did have good intentions about supposedly freeing Fiji of corruption...maybe his not a bad/evil/devil-ish person but someone that has made a lot of wrong decisions....very wrong decisions!!!..just maybe, he can be a good leader one can hope for( some people already think he is...weird!!..i still dont understand that part of things)...or maybe he is just a leader gone bad...
Which leads me to ask; does power always corrupt???..well the answer is probably yes- @ least where power means that the holder is given the opportunity to abuse it, and self-interest dictates that he should do so...well he definitely had the opportunity...Bainimarama has taken power twice in Fiji's history, the first time as Head of the Interim Military Government of Fiji from 29 May to 13 July 2000, after organizing a counter-coup to neutralize the ethnic Fijian putsch led by George Speight. He handed power over to the newly-appointed President Ratu Josefa Iloilo and on 5 December 2006, he overthrew the Qarase government and announced that he had "reluctantly" assumed the powers of the presidency...after intense criticism of the government's policy of showing leniency towards people invloved in the coup...

but is he a leader gona bad???

Barbara Kellerman has been studying leadership in its less-than-heroic forms, and she believes that regardless of the reason, leaders don't create disasters or become monsters on their own. Kellerman is the research director for the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her book Bad Leadership identifies seven types of bad leadership and gives examples of each. Kellerman hopes that it will eventually become accepted practice to consider the good and the bad in leadership development. But, she says, part of the problem is that the literature of leadership over-focuses on individuals, and ignores the role of the supporting cast. Followers surround bad leaders, she says, and bad leadership isn't possible without bad followers. It's essential to consider the role of followers in bad leadership, because followers play a role in the leader's overexpression of his or her unique dark side. "A leader is dependent on followers to aid and abet their leadership, whether it's bad or good," Kellerman says.

well i guess he's not necessarily bad...not good either...well i dont..just maybe!!!

1 comment:

  1. Yeah well...we all live day by day with the "maybe's" and "if only's" but 3 years on its quite clear now that it always was about him and his quest for power.

    ReplyDelete