True leadership is the art of setting new directions and then creating the environment for that vision to become possible; not just plausible. Nurturing the right climate for ideas and ideals to flourish is just as important as the new directions set. Follower-ship consequently is the discipline of acknowledging visionary leadership and the requisite obedience …
Someone recently asked me two questions about the Attorney General which I could not answer. The first question related to “why the Attorney General and IGP ‘interfered with’ the elections after it has been called, and insisted on changing the rules?” Do the AG and IGP have any such authority within a jurisdiction of interim …
Is the title of this column an oxymoron? According to Wikipedia , an oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. I would like to argue that my title is not an oxymoron. In the field of the science or study of knowledge or epistemology, there is a concept in perennial knowledge philosophy …
It is said marriages are made in heaven; but many do not believe in this theology! Many prefer to build and develop marriages entirely on earth and let them breakdown, and then find the easy way out, especially in Malaysia, by \”converting to Islam.\” Thereby taking on new wives, in the plural that is, as …
My Professor Jerry Harvey, author of Abilene Par adox and other Meditations on Management has one chapter in the book entitled: \”Captain Asoh and the concept of Grace.\” He describes the true story about a JAL 747 captain. Asoh was the pilot who successfully and accidentally landed his jumbo jet perfectly in the bay outside the Los Angeles airport, in …
Wikipedia defines poetic justice as a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character\’s own conduct. The structure of poetry, prose, and drama to have justice originates in Aristotle\’s Poetics. Aristotle says that poetry is superior to …
Most of us know and understand the power paradigm in the applied form. It is often made visible by the application of authority through power in our daily lives. Whether at home, in the office, or in the community or at the service counter, ordinary people can see and recognise raw application of power. Its …
In developed nations, whether in the East of West, old structures and institutions are honored and respected, not destroyed. In such \”developed and mature thinking,\” which we sometimes call ‘civilized,’ all institutions which have survived more than 100 years are \”classified as historic institutions.\” Such institutions are part and parcel of the heritage of a …
I am borrowing the title of this column from the speech of Martin Luther King Jr, as seasoned readers would have noticed already. Thrust into national spotlight after the bus protest march in Birmingham, where he was duly arrested and incarcerated, King built on that momentum and months later led a massive march to Washington, …
This is the second part of my article on how Martin Luther King Jr’s speech titled ‘I have a dream’ can be juxtaposed to Malaysia’s present political scene. King speaks about Afro-Americans and their place in America. Is it Malaysia’s kairos to define a new paradigm and mindset? We had 1000 persons at Hindraf’s birth …
