I believe that there is a deeper cause for the unrest in the federal Liberal party leading up to Denis Coderre's unfortunate resignation as Quebec Lieutenant and ill-considered words. The deeper cause is an insufficient focus on vision, principles and policies, and too much focus on people, political tactics, and the shortcomings of other parties.
Why do for-profit corporations invest resources to craft mission and vision statements? Couldn't they save some money by skipping that exercise? Couldn't "Let's maximize profits" be good enough?
It's not good enough. The corporation that does not have a mission and vision is more likely to fail, even at making a profit. There are always difficult decisions to be made when running a business. For example, there are compromises between quality and price. Or, managers must decide between investing in the research division or investing in sales and advertising. In such cases different stakeholders have competing interests and you need unifying ideas and a road map to help get everybody to pull in the same direction and build a winning team.
Back to the federal Liberal party. I believe that it's all too easy to focus on personalities and power structures inside the organization and external threats from other parties (and the press is happy to help with these) when we're not sufficiently focused on our vision for Canada, the principles our party stands for, and our policy proposals to serve the people of Canada. We have all of these. Let's work on presenting them to the people of Canada.
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I somewhat agree, but if Ignatieff announced his vision, the Conservatives would tear into it quickly, as much as they tore into Dion's idea on Carbon.
We have a party running us that runs on untruths, and the gullible believe it all.
I'm not sure I buy the premise that there _is_ a problem. Ignatieff handled the Corderre thing very well, and we're continuing on. As Lizt said, it's too early to release an election platform. There's nothing unusual about how Ignatieff is proceeding.
Hello Yappa and Lizt.
Michael Ignatieff may have handled the Coderre 'thing' as well as anybody, but I think that if the Liberal party were more occupied with policy, there would be less time for interpersonal rivalries.
I understand that the details of an election platform can wait for the election, but vision and principles and general outlines of policies do exist and should be what the public are reading in the newspapers about the Liberal party.
It's certainly not easy. People are busy and/or tired, sometimes would rather be entertained. The news media know that and are happy to give the Coderre story as much coverage as they can get away with.
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