ISSUE70

TOPIC: ISSUE70 - "In any profession-business, politics, education, government-those in power should step down after five years. The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership."
WORDS: 617 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2008/7/23 12:37:32

The speaker asserts that the leader must be took place with a new one after five years in any profession, such as business, politics, government and so forth. Generally speaking, the above norm, which depends on the situation that we are in, the specialization of certain profession from case to case, cannot be available for all circumstances. Furthermore, it is not always the best way to succeed through new leadership.

To begin with, whether the every five years' replacement is suitable or not depends on the epic we are in. The empire, which has the sovereign power in feudal society in past years, would take charge of his nation until his death. This phenomenon is based on the assumption, which we regarded as ignorance, that the empire was the son of God or the son of Heaven which was distinguished from different cultures and nations. At that time, the direction of development of nation, the death of people was all decided by the empire, which may intensify the power of centre and therefore be prone to use the resource of all the nation expediently. In addition this kind of production relations would stimulate and improved the productivity undoubtedly but it really do not suit for productivity nowadays because all of us realize what the leadership is and what the relationship between leader and people really is.

Furthermore, sometimes the surest path to success for us is really revitalization through new leadership and there are more and more leaders in grand enterprises want to step down and be replaced with new ones. For example, Bill Gates, the world's famous computer scientist and businessman, have been away from Microsoft, which was founded by his own and was one of the well-known enterprise in the world, and devoted all his life to philanthropy forever. Admittedly, his kindness is one of the reasons for his leaving, but the other one, the more important, is the fundamental reason that he realized that it is not suitable for him to be in power in so long a time, which may do harms to the management and creation of Microsoft. In addition, Welch brought new cultures and modern management into GM, whose profits increased from 1.6 billion to 12.7 billion in 2000. These examples both substantiate the advantages of new leadership.

However, in certain realms, especially in politics, the replacement of leader would have bad efforts on the whole nation. The Soviet Union, which is one of the strongest nation in the world since the Second World War, was disorganized in 1991, because during the fifty years approximately, the Soviet Union's leader have changed many times and nearly each new leader held the opposite view to the last one. So, the interim heritage of the regime undermined the united of the union. So, for a country, it is the most significant to keep on the direction of development.

In addition, is it the best way for our meeting success by replacement of leadership? Absolutely not. Besides it, there are many useful approaches, such as updating the technology in production, undermining the useless department, and carrying out the system of encouragement or punishment. Furthermore, compared to the above methods, the new leadership will be less helpful under certain circumstances. So, the perfect way for any enterprise to be successful is that to deal with the problems with certain approaches.

Generally speaking, the replacement of leader has both advantages and disadvantages. If can use it in proper situation, we will gain more benefits. Besides, it is not the single way for us to achieve our success through new leadership, because there are more other approaches to solve the different and complex troubles in our life.