I am not too sure if I am a little late to blog about this, but I stumble upon Chen Show Mao's maiden parliamentary speech. And can I say this is really one of the very very few times I am actually inspired by a local parliament figure.
This is what it is :
“政者正也， 子帅以正，孰敢不正”，“为政以德，譬如北辰，居其所而众星拱之”，“风行草偃”，这些都是孔子说的来形容好的执政者，意思就是，一个好的领导者，只要有信心，有正确的方向，有好的道德与能力把政绩做出来，人民自然会乐意跟著他走。不需要害怕国家分裂，强调团结。
爱国的权利不是任何一个政党可以独占的。一个党再伟大也只是国家的一部分而已，不是国家全部啊！陈独秀说过，＂党外无党，帝王思想。＂在民主社会里，有不同的意见，不同的建议，是很自然的事情。这也是好事。
It talks about unity, it talks about bonding and it talks about something that has always been in my head, the ideal world I wanted, the utopia that I have been looking for - "One Voice".
I always thought that when mending a company, a team or maybe even in a family, it is important for everyone to be united as one, do things as one and I believe this is what many mangers and management thinks as well. We will try to create team bonding session, we will try to pass down mission statements, visual and goals to make sure everyone is on the same page, works together towards one goal to make the whole team better. We try to enforce everyone to go to event together, we try to hire like minded people to form this team dynamics. I always thought that by doing so means getting everyone on the same side.
The speech above reminded me that having differences is common, having differences is inevitable, having difference is actually healthy. It's thru all these differences that people improves and become better. We do not need to fear differences, in fact if everyone is the same, what is the beauty in it? And if an organization is under a good leadership, "one voice" is not needed, it is not something an organization should work towards but instead it should be "harmony".
We can have different thoughts, different culture, different style of work and different beliefs but and the end of day it is harmony that we need to work on to ensure that all the differences only make things better, only make things work out and it is not but using fear or any other ways to eliminate and iron out all differences. It is through good leadership where we integrate all the differences.
Thanks CSM for sharing this. It is really inspiring. I hope I got the meaning correct but nevertheless I think it did inspire me the way I got it.
Mr.Smith, harmony
This is what it is :
“政者正也， 子帅以正，孰敢不正”，“为政以德，譬如北辰，居其所而众星拱之”，“风行草偃”，这些都是孔子说的来形容好的执政者，意思就是，一个好的领导者，只要有信心，有正确的方向，有好的道德与能力把政绩做出来，人民自然会乐意跟著他走。不需要害怕国家分裂，强调团结。
爱国的权利不是任何一个政党可以独占的。一个党再伟大也只是国家的一部分而已，不是国家全部啊！陈独秀说过，＂党外无党，帝王思想。＂在民主社会里，有不同的意见，不同的建议，是很自然的事情。这也是好事。
其实孔子三千年前就已说过，“君子和而不同”。和谐，可却不尽相同。晏婴说过：乐团只演奏一个音符，谁听得下去？白开水上再加白开水，谁喝得下去？一个和谐的社会，不只有一种声音。而是每个人很和平的在法律的範围内发表他的看法，从事政治活动。我们不必防民如防贼。
I'm not too sure how many of my readers actually understand what it means cause if it's just base on the Chinese characters I must confess that I only know around 75-80% of them but in context wise I actually fully understand and in fact feels it that much. (I hope I got it right. )It talks about unity, it talks about bonding and it talks about something that has always been in my head, the ideal world I wanted, the utopia that I have been looking for - "One Voice".
I always thought that when mending a company, a team or maybe even in a family, it is important for everyone to be united as one, do things as one and I believe this is what many mangers and management thinks as well. We will try to create team bonding session, we will try to pass down mission statements, visual and goals to make sure everyone is on the same page, works together towards one goal to make the whole team better. We try to enforce everyone to go to event together, we try to hire like minded people to form this team dynamics. I always thought that by doing so means getting everyone on the same side.
The speech above reminded me that having differences is common, having differences is inevitable, having difference is actually healthy. It's thru all these differences that people improves and become better. We do not need to fear differences, in fact if everyone is the same, what is the beauty in it? And if an organization is under a good leadership, "one voice" is not needed, it is not something an organization should work towards but instead it should be "harmony".
We can have different thoughts, different culture, different style of work and different beliefs but and the end of day it is harmony that we need to work on to ensure that all the differences only make things better, only make things work out and it is not but using fear or any other ways to eliminate and iron out all differences. It is through good leadership where we integrate all the differences.
Thanks CSM for sharing this. It is really inspiring. I hope I got the meaning correct but nevertheless I think it did inspire me the way I got it.
Mr.Smith, harmony
