by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 16, 2015 | DailyFT
THE LONG MARCH: Government is good at walking the talk on anti-corruption drives and is no doubt sincere in the main about stemming the rotten tide. However, civil society together with the genuine elements of the powers that be, have to do more than tangibly...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 9, 2015 | DailyFT
Leadership can be a sinking ship as long as only driven, darkly charismatic leaders who are lacking in character but are very strong-willed and even temperamental do helm the project – without sufficient regard for relational leadership … and the position,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Dec 2, 2015 | DailyFT
Legendary model leader Roman republican Cincinnatus prioritised his agricultural acres over the affairs of state – until his country had need of his services. Duty done, this exemplary Consul then laid down his fasces – a symbol of real power – and retired to tending...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 27, 2015 | DailyFT
Radical budgets call for reinvigorated critical engagement by Civil Society. Governments that dodge bullets and clampdown on media commentaries by their mandarins – culpable of conflicts of interest (or not); or worse, chicanery – may read as an epitaph,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Nov 19, 2015 | DailyFT
While the skyline of the modern French Republic, Paris, was recently shrouded in a veil of grief and tears, storms clouds may be hovering over the political hub of a distant island-republic’s ancient commercial port city, as a long-drawn-out maritimeand military...
