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awesome post! absolutely love it.... looks like a study of lao tzu is in order for me next up on the research list!
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Let's go back a few centuries. Some of those old Chinamen had a few clues (unlike the present day control freaks).
“The best leaders are those the people hardly know exist.
The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
Next comes the one who is feared.
The worst one is the leader that is despised.
If you don't trust the people,
they will become untrustworthy (hello China?? Have you forgotten about Lao Tzu?).
The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly.
When she has accomplished her task,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!"
~The Great Lao Tzu
I'm entirely sympathetic to your comments above. Sadly, no such leader is even on the horizon in Australia.Not at all. I do however want an ACTUAL leader. By leader I mean someone who inspires people, instills confidence and faith in people (not religious faith). A leader who influences people in a positive manner.
Julia Gillard is 'leading' us by default. How can you expect anyone to cheer for her when stands up in front of cameras with that nasally Kath and Kim like pitch.
My point is, regardless of what he is saying when he speaks, he speaks convincingly, he speaks with power, with passion and confidence, imo as a great leader should. Regardless of whether he is any good for the country or not, when I look at him or see pictures I see a leader.
Can you imagine Gillards speech if she were to win an election? You would need to end it with an air horn to ensure everyone wakes up to know to go home. Australia government, both parties, need a massive over-haul. I despise Australian politics.
+1.To be a good leader you need to have the respect of the people you lead. To have the respect of those you lead you need to earn it. Unfortunately many leaders these days think that just by attaining the position of leadership they will have respect/be a good leader automatically. Once you get the the position the job has only just begun.
On the contrary, your comments are really interesting. Thank you.I think we used to live in a less competitive society. Our values of truth and honesty would hold us in good steed during negotiations. In Asia, its assumed everyone is trying to rip everyone else off, so the trust needs to be built by fostering relationships...Guanxi. Respect on the other hand, is given to people in postions of authority, whether they deserve it or not.
Sorry to take this off topic.
This difference has been the undoing of many western companies.I think we used to live in a less competitive society. Our values of truth and honesty would hold us in good steed during negotiations. In Asia, its assumed everyone is trying to rip everyone else off, so the trust needs to be built by fostering relationships...Guanxi. Respect on the other hand, is given to people in postions of authority, whether they deserve it or not.
Sorry to take this off topic.
In reference to the election of leaders though, Asians tend to respect their leaders regardless of whether they earned it or not, where as we tend to be skeptical of them until they prove themselves.
I suspect much of this is just the difference between a developed world with freedom of expression going back a few generations versus developing nations just started to express themselves as they wish.
CanOz
On channel 10's "Project", they read a tweat from a disenchanted American girl, who reacted to Obama's re-election by saying she wanted to move to Australia, because "the Australian President was a Christian, and when he promised something, he'd really do it."
Yeah - we really need young Einsteins like that to lift our National IQ.
Bit of a sad indictment of Gillard though if people in the US think Toney Abbott is the PM.
I heard this being discussed on the radio and a caller rang in and said maybe the tweeter had thought Tony Abbott was PM as the comments fit him pretty well (well he's male and Christian at least). Bit of a sad indictment of Gillard though if people in the US think Toney Abbott is the PM.
I'd be impressed if an American could name any Australian politician, living, dead, current, former. I lived there. I was complimented more than once on how well I spoke English, when I said I was from Australia. I was asked regularly what side of the country Sydney is on, which incidentally is also the capital of Australia. And on trips outside New York I would often get blank stares when I spoke because people couldn't understand my accent.
I know what you mean. When Gillard went to America last year I asked an American I know on another forum how the visit was going down over there and she told me she didn't even know Gillard was in the country(and this person is very into politics).
I'd be impressed if an American could name any Australian politician, living, dead, current, former. I lived there. I was complimented more than once on how well I spoke English, when I said I was from Australia. I was asked regularly what side of the country Sydney is on, which incidentally is also the capital of Australia. And on trips outside New York I would often get blank stares when I spoke because people couldn't understand my accent.
Americans have been like that for years, and its abit of a joke thats run when you talk to one. Ask them anything outside of America and they wouldnt have a clue.
Obama is a socialist left and a good mate of Gillard's.
Nuff said.
I think there's a tendency in Australia to think we're more important than we are, and I've noticed it getting worse over the last few years. We're an inconsequential middle power, at the end of the Earth. They probably have half a dozen PM's of similar sized countries come through every month.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/unsk...k-morris-michael-barone-2012-11#ixzz2Bhex9UCjUnskewed' Pollster: 'Nate Silver Was Right, And I Was Wrong'
Brett LoGiurato | Nov. 7, 2012, 12:47 PM | 65,016 | 83
Dean Chambers, the man who garnered praise from the right and notoriety on the left for his "Unskewed Polling" site, admitted today that his method was flawed.
"Nate Silver was right, and I was wrong," Chambers said in a phone interview.
Chambers' method of "unskewing" polls involved re-weighting the sample to match what he believed the electorate would look like, in terms of party identification. He thought the electorate would lean more Republican when mainstream pollsters routinely found samples that leaned Democratic.
But as it turned out, the pollsters were right ”” self-identified Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 6% in election exit polls.
"I think it was much more in the Democratic direction than most people predicted," Chambers said. "But those assumptions ”” my assumptions ”” were wrong."
Chambers' official Electoral College prediction ended up being much more tame than other conservatives, including Dick Morris. Chambers predicted Romney would win 275 electoral votes to Obama's 263.
But he said he probably won't go back to "unskewing" polls next time. He actually thinks conservative-leaning pollsters like Scott Rasmussen have a lot more explaining to do.
"He has lost a lot of credibility, as far as I'm concerned," Chambers said. "He did a lot of surveys. A lot of those surveys were wrong."
Interesting to see how making up facts to suit your own interest can blow up in your face.
One of the many dishonest aspects of the Republican campaign for the Presidency was denying the accuracy of the pre election polling which showed Obama ahead.
Their answer was simple.
Just create new polls which recast the information so it looked as if Romney was at least neck and neck if not ahead. It was called the Unskewed polling site.
The guy who ran it, Dean Chambers, acknowledged the error of his ways.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/unsk...k-morris-michael-barone-2012-11#ixzz2Bhex9UCj
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