Making Peace During War Time

I attended a management meeting last week and one of the interesting point raised by the Chair of the meeting is everyone in the market place has no time to take a real rest time as we have to either preparing the war during peaceful time or making peace during war time. Either way we have to make good preparation. Confucius and Sun Tze once said in ancient time that as a leader we need to worry first before others about things during good time or else you yourself is no more other than the ordinary people. This is rightly so because the leader is leading and he has to think well ahead and prepare for any untoward happenings or else he might have caught off guard for any eventuality. Under such circumstance, he is not fit any more to lead the followers who might have listen and follow the instructions as given. Of course, some might have just lamented that any untoward happening is the act of God or factors beyond their control or influence but no one will admit of miscalculation of misjudgement.

Having said this, of course not many will be able to sense and feel the right timing. Is now a war time or peaceful time is very much depended on who you have forwarded the question to. For example, although many are preparing for the rainy day anticipating that 2012 will be a difficult year because of the global economic slow down and domestic political uncertainty scenario, the government servants that I met up might have thought differently. Those having secure and protected career, fix income and stable life will not bother much about the surrounding disturbance as long as their life style is maintained and no drastic changes are taking place.

For those preparing for the war during peaceful time, it is of course an opportunity for better thing to come during a rainy time. They are with them sufficient resources and energy to capture what have been good and "cheap" for them.

For local authority, now must be the time to showcase to the stakeholders that we are care and concern about them. We are here to facilitate them overcoming the hardship or even developing wider opportunities for them during this difficult time. People are concerned about cost and ease of doing business. Is it chances for us to think about lowering the cost and easing the procedure of conducting business. I certainly think so.