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Thursday, July 15, 2010

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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