Frank Mossman's description of decision making by way of democracy .

[shaikh]

An article has appeared about possibility of presidential system for Pakistan


http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/777696

Therein in response on Frank Mossman wrote the follows:



"If democracy were as wonderful as it's made out to be then business enterprises, which live and die as a direct result of their leadership decisions, would have adopted it instead of their current leadership model of boards of directors/sole owner based dictatorial decision-making.


Imagine Proctor & Gamble, Apple Computer, Unilever, a cherry orchard in Turkey etc, polling all their workers, from the janitors, cafeteria dish-washers (fruit-pickers & tree-planters in the orchard's case) on up, to select their leader. Clearly, someone who promises them higher wages, regardless of its business-sense, would win. The janitor has as much elective power as the head of R&D.


Democratic elections are beauty pageants where appearances/cosmetics are more important than substance. The key to successful national leadership is to have rigorously selected individuals who are then trained for leadership over a number of years, complimented with a similarly selected support staff. China is a good example. The track record of its leaders speaks for itself.

 

[Fardad]

What a wonderful description about the efficacy of democracy. So true.

 

[Bret Hawk]

There are number of flaws in this piece you have posted although I have to maintain that in the absence of an alternative governing system I do have to support democratic system.

The power hierarchy present in corporate sector around the world is by no means ideal or efficient to say the least and these words are echoed by prominent scholars like the ilk of late Professor Peter Drucker.

One has to remember this point that the same coercive power structure of corporations gave rise to the reactionary ideology of socialism which we all know how much disintegrated into an equally oppressive regimes of communism in Russia, Eastern Europe and in China.

China is by no means a beacon of light when it comes to corporate governance and I think Mr. Frank is trying to mix the corporate performance (In terms of generation of profit) with its corporate ideology that surely is a recipe of disaster.

However there is no easy solutions to the plight of proletariat class in the current capitalistic world of corporations and the respective legislation of central governments of states have to fix the leash on the arrogant necks of corporate governors to act within the admissible limits when it comes to the matters of labor class and market maneuvering.