The Next President of the Philippines
Posted on August 8th, 2008
Can our country be really run like a social enterprise? I can agree that we have presidentiables who are so ‘enterprising’, but the qualities of a social entrepreneur being in them is another point. Besides, for an enterprise to succeed, sometimes it needs to sacrifice some department, make unpopular decisions, and run it on an iron hand if necessary.
The Philippines being a larger enterprise, so to speak, with a diverse sector of society each wanting to be given a fair share of the pie, it will take a lot of political will to be able run the country as an enterprise. With the current crops of presidentiables and wannabe’s, political will is hardly a character displayed
That for me is the main requirement for our next president. Anybody can have many credentials… and anyone can be an entrepreneur, yes even, a social entrepreneur. But not everybody can have enough courage to go against what is popular or is willing to forego personal status just to implement what really should be done.
Doing what is necessary, even if it’s an unpopular choice – political will, more than a social entrepreneur, that’s the leadership quality I want on the next president.
