Tuesday, July 12, 2022

VANISHING VALUES

An FB friend posted this which I find somewhat interesting, only that this idealism and integrity elicited by the time-honored Filipino value of "delicadeza" has ceased to be particularly in the bureaucracy. 

 

Sadly, even the rank and file has ceased to be idealist and accepted this "new norm". "Iyan na ang kalakaran ngayon. Palakasan at kapal ng mukha."

 

Thus she wrote:

 

“Many people in leadership positions believe that to be an effective leader, they must be the smartest person. If they are not, it will somehow send a signal to their staff that the leader is somehow inept.

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Some people tend to think a leader should have a complete set of skills, characteristics, and abilities to handle any problem, challenge, or opportunity that comes along but no one is an expert at everything...”

 

My view:

 

Political protégées may lobby and accept designations in the context that they need not be the best strategist, planner, or implementor but can always delegate, the nitty-gritty but pass on the blame to subordinates for any failure.

 

Many leaders no longer believe that they should have the best skills and capability to carry out the agency's mission and vision and introduce innovations. 

 

This is the very reason why inept leaders fortify themselves with equally or far more stupid people, with hostile biases against intelligent ones because of envy and insecurity, that activities under the guise of innovations are nothing than "pa bebe" and serve no purpose but lauded by the "palakpak" boys and girls.

 

We can judge the quality of leaders by the kind of people closely surrounding him/ her. That way, in the bureaucratic blind world the one-eyed is king, as the saying goes.


jaime e. masagca
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