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Sidek: Learn from failure of big teams in World Cup
Thursday July 15, 2010
PUTRAJAYA: Government officers should take heed of the fall of mighty
teams like England, Brazil and Argen-tina in the recent Fifa World Cup
and not think that their jobs are forever or that they automatically
deserve promotions, said Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd
Sidek Hassan.
He said these teams filled with superstars were
in the end outshone by Paul the Octopus which was “an outsider,
non-football player, non-human, unassuming sage and who had nothing
whatsoever to do with football”.
“All too often we are in a game,
albeit a job, for so long that we perceive it our own to claim and no
one else’s. We think it is our birth right as we are the ‘indigenous’,
the bumiputra and the ones with the only right over it,’’ Sidek said
when opening the Diplomatic and Adminis-trative Services Association
annual general meeting here last night.
He reminded his fellow officers that for too long they thought they couldn’t be replaced because of their “superstar” status.
“We
psyche ourselves into believing, even to the point of self-deception,
that only we can do the job and an outsider could not survive the pace,
or know the rhythm.
“We build a ‘club mentality’ amongst us and
subliminally we stifle all else that seems foreign to us. We insist that
we are the deserving ‘stars’ of any right that the job might offer. Yet
when we are told to raise our game and deliver, we fail, as England did
at the World Cup, so abysmally.”
He said the time had come for a
change and that government officers should realise that they need to
“shape up or ship out” as there are others who could do their jobs and
do it even better (see pages 40 and 41 for full text of the speech).
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