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they will conspire instead to improve To this end, two popular idioms are
the lot of their citizens, especially of the apt: If what’s good for the goose is good
“Instead of a spirit of revenge there many who are far less fortunate than for the gander, then why is it when our
will be forgiveness, them. That school-leavers will be offered leaders are in need of a medical check up
in place of hatred there will be love, real and serious opportunities to find or treatment, they head for the nearest
compassion over vindictiveness, decent work, be it in offices, factories, airport and not for a local hospital.
farms or sports grounds, and that our
And if the Fijian proverb is to stay
honesty over corruption, senior citizens get to spend most of their true that everything should start from
humility over tyranny, time enjoying their twilight years, no Jerusalem, should it not follow then that
faith over cynicism, longer worrying about their health or before we parade our localised concepts
geniality over bitterness” personal safety. and traditions on the world stage, that
That in lieu of striving to seek fame we first put them to practice at our very
and prestige on the world stage, our own backyard first?
leaders in the Pacific would use 2018 to As we welcome yet another year in
Conceding that it is utopian to wish for take off their wool and silk jackets, roll our lives, it is our fervent wish that the
Pacific leaders to recommit themselves up their long sleeve shirts, and get right words of Chris Hadfield, a Canadian
to making the adjective meaning of the down to the grassroots, dirtying their astronaut would come true in the lives
noun Pacific a reality this year, we have hands (and legs if need be) in working of our leaders today when he said that
to wonder nevertheless whether is it re- to improve the lot of their own people for leadership ultimately “is not about glori-
ally too much to ask that leaders strive after all, they are the very ones that put ous crowning acts.
for something much more simpler and them there in the first place. That they “It’s about keeping your team focused
quite basic. will work more and travel less. on a goal and motivated to do their best
That for 2018, they will strive to be- That instead of a spirit of revenge to achieve it especially when the stakes
come better in what they do. there will be forgiveness, in place of are high and the consequences really
That they will listen more, understand hatred there is love, compassion over matter. It is about laying the groundwork
better and work smarter. vindictiveness, honesty over corruption, for others’ success and then standing
That in place of plotting day and night humility over tyranny, faith over cyni- back and letting them shine.”
to see to the fall of their political foes, cism, geniality over bitterness. r editor@islandsbusiness.com

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