There is a phenomenon that occurs with considerable frequency in our country that gives me pause every time it happens.\u00a0 It is this bad habit of everyone wanting to see the prime minister whenever they are seemingly at an impasse with whatever their cause happens to be.\u00a0 It is also the willingness of our prime ministers to accommodate this foolishness with almost equal regularity.<\/p>\n
The most recent examples were the demonstrations of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU).\u00a0 Executive Chairman Leslie Miller was already engaged with what can hardly be called a \u2018dispute\u2019.\u00a0 The minister with responsibility for BEC had not yet been involved and the Industrial Tribunal was not yet even on anybody\u2019s mind.\u00a0 Nevertheless, as soon as the union took it upon itself to demand (by an unauthorized work stoppage and march to his office) an audience with the prime minister he immediately came out, acquiesced and arranged a meeting.\u00a0 In the process, he short-circuited and made of non-effect the offices of all of the aforementioned persons and organs.\u00a0 He also (like all of his predecessors of the past 40 years) demonstrated his complete lack of management knowledge and skills in that he would have severely impacted the morale of the chairman, minister Philip Davis and the Industrial Tribunal.<\/p>\n
It is a fundamental management error of huge proportions to appoint persons to positions of responsibility and then turn around and usurp the responsibility that you delegated to them.\u00a0 It demeans and belittles him in the eyes of the protagonists, who are his juniors, and leads to a loss of respect of him and his office.\u00a0 It also reveals that the PM is a disorganized person.\u00a0 How else can you explain his ability to so quickly re-arrange his extremely busy schedule?<\/p>\n
No wonder our leaders have stopped saying they are trying to take us to the First World.\u00a0 It is because their repeated actions betray and expose the lie.\u00a0 It is unheard of in the First World for a president or prime minister to meet (at short or long notice) a union leader because of a dispute, real or imagined.\u00a0 It simply does not happen.\u00a0 And the reason it does not happen is because others are appointed with the requisite ability and authority to deal with these matters, and they are allowed the latitude to do their jobs.\u00a0 In fact, persons, organizations and unions with issues in those countries do not even think about engaging their national leaders in this manner because they know that they will be barking up the wrong tree and will not be paid any attention whatsoever.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it strokes the egos of our leaders to imagine that everyone wants to see them for every reason.\u00a0 What they need to realize is that it does the nation a gross disservice.\u00a0 Why force the country to pay the expenses of a 21-member Cabinet and then act as \u2018minister for everything\u2019?\u00a0 In this country insanity seemingly knows no bounds.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think anything in this regard is going to change until the day comes when we have a businessperson as PM.\u00a0 I am not prejudiced, but it seems to me that thus far attorneys have just not been cutting it as far as managing the office of the nation\u2019s chief executive is concerned.<\/p>\n
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