Where Do We Go From Here
Where Do We Go From Here
By Dr. Edwin Weaver
December 30, 2009
For more than 18 months I have been warning people that we were in danger. Our faulty leadership was setting us up for a big fall. However, while the stock market was rising and everyone was laughing all the way to the bank, no one wanted to believe the truth. The same thing happened just before the great depression. What will happen this time?
In the summer of 1929 Forbes was calling it the "golden age of American industry". Not too long ago the Wall Street Journey was calling this the most prosperous time in history, China and India expanding at record breaking rates, the whole world moving into a new era; a close parallel. Does that mean we are heading into another GREAT DEPRESSION? It all depends on one important factor.
The economists say that another great depression is impossible. They say we will suffer a deep recession, but not a depression; the economic are not right for it to happen again. However, these economists lack one important aspect, the same aspect which drove the 1930s depression so deep; economists know number, not people.
People decide how deep the depression will go, more importantly the attitude of the people. in the 1930s people were depressed, they lack hope, they lacked vision, they lacked purpose. That is why the depression lasted so long, even though the government was adding money to the economy and giving jobs; the same plan that Obama has.
It is not prosperity or the lack of it which drives people; it is hope, vision and enthusiasm. This comes from leadership. Leadership is the important factor which will determine how deep this depression goes.
Obama is not super leader. He can not mobilize everyone in every sector. The companies need great leadership if they are to survive and the people are to have hope. Unique Leader Professional Leadership Development has worked with people around the world, often in the poorest countries in the world. We have seen the effects of great leadership on the people, even when the government was devoid of leadership, even when the government was corrupt and rotten. Great Leadership motivates, great leadership gives hope, great leadership provides a vision of what is to come, and great leadership destroys despair.
It is time for companies to throw out the bad and develop leadership which is true leadership, not over paid, number crunching, money hungry businessmen. We need true leaders if we are to avoid the worst depression the world has ever seen.
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