NMI needs new pair of glasses The Issue Our View
The Issue: We’ve been wearing a pair of glasses to which we’ve outgrown the lenses where our vision have equally been blurred.
Our View: Must change lenses or we’d repeat the same mistakes to our own demise in the sea of helplessness and hardship.
Leadership simply means the ability to climb a tree (with humility) in a dense jungle to ascertain that the group is headed in the right direction. A leader must be able to declare right then and there, “Wrong direction, let’s go this way!”
As we study how the collective leadership has handled issues of substance here over a period of years, there doesn’t seem to be one in the flock who’s willing to say “Wrong direction, let’s go this way!” As such, we hop into the car but can’t find the keys in order to start the engine. For the most part, local leadership has been and is still out of focus to the detriment of its followers, many of whom pine for answers given the economic hardship that has slowly spread in the Northern Marianas Community.
No longer can leadership bask in the old boxed-in mentality that problems will eventually fade away. At the same time, new challenges have popped-up everywhere, challenges that call for serious planning in hopes of alleviating hardship as we head into the new millennium. The demands placed on leadership to guide its people out of the current economic turbulence may be mind numbing, but leadership isn’t absolved of its obligation to ensure better days ahead for its people.
This issue requires people with vision and commitment to wrestle with what had to be done even if the process is hard, long and arduous. That all major undertaking involves a lengthy process, leadership can’t afford giving trivia greater prominence over substantive issues. It may be a difficult undertaking, but an obligation that calls for local resolve no matter how hard it may be.
Perhaps, our pair of glasses need a new set of lenses in order to see with clarity what lies ahead and what is required of us to deal with our myriad of socio-economic problems. There’s no room in the slippery corner of revenue slide for leadership to acquiesce a deepening crisis. It must muster up resolve, with journalistic mind-set, to begin work on wealth and jobs creation.
Either leadership steps-in now and begin the proverbial first step in the long journey to rebuilding the crumbling bridge of revenue generation, or allow mañana to sink-in further translating into victimizing the multitude. We’re not asking for much, but how true it is that when economic hardship sets-in, the multitude looks to leadership for guidance and better days ahead. Si Yuus Maase`!
