Dear children,
No, this salutation is not a light hearted attempt to
discredit ‘some’ politicians. It is
indeed a statement alluding to demonstrated behaviour by politicians more akin
to 5 year old tantrums or petulant immature teenagers with their behavioural
‘I’m not quite ready for the real world’ issues. Perfectly natural for those two groups but
disgraceful for the people who are supposed to lead our country.
I am writing this as a plea for all politicians to spend less
time on personality driven small issues and more time and thought on a vision
for Australia because it’s only from an accepted vision that ‘we’ can galvanise
to collectively move forward.
I am not a fan of Mr Trump, to say the least, but his
keepers came up with a fantastic 4 word vision which ALL people understand and
rally behind. ‘Make America Great Again’
is a great vision only flawed, in this case, by the behaviour of the person
spouting it. Unfortunately these
negative behaviours are common amongst all so called supremacists in that they
believe they are actually closer to their chosen deity which, in turn, makes
‘respect for all as a God given right’ impossible.
Pity.
But at least Mr Trump had the nous to start at the top
rather than dribble around with minutia - which only leads to more minutia.
I was dragged up as a Liberal voter albeit not with eye’s
closed. Therefore I jumped ship a couple
of times when I thought it necessary.
Indeed, I voted for Keating and personally told him so one evening because he was the best Liberal Prime Minister the labour party
ever had and he achieved great things financially for Australia which has since
saved our collective bacon on a number of occasions. Perhaps a trifle direct in Parliament for me
but very able to rally the troops when needed and he achieved ultimate
respect. Wahoo!
And, this alludes to the
second time when I voted for Hawke. Only for the reason he was able to
galvanise the whole country behind him.
When we won the America’s cup he was beside himself and everyone
followed. Great stuff for a leader. On the other side, I voted for Kennett
because he had a vision for Victoria and led us out from the disaster labour
left behind. No question and unarguable.
Now we have a Victorian Premier who pontificates at length
about building Victoria’s future by maintaining a few level crossings. This is NOT visionary, it is minutia
thinking!
The great leaders focus on vision and strategy and can see
the strategic ‘jigsaw’ put together in their heads whilst the 'pontificators' search the same jigsaw in which to put a tiny piece of blue sky then crow about
‘blue sky’ success which, is unfortunately defined as ‘a state in which real
world applications are not apparent’.
Level crossings are ‘blue sky’ pieces.
We have a lot of minutia led blue sky crowers and very few
visionaries.
Jon Langevad MBA
