In “Cleaning the House of Marcos” (27 May 2025, Inquirer, opinion.inquirer.net), former NEDA Chief Ciel F Habito says:
“This reorganization of his official family could be
Mr Marcos’ best chance to reclaim control of his presidency and to reassert a
policy agenda amid factional squabbles. Again, it can only work if he walks his
talk – if he fires those who must go, hires those who are capable, and above
all, renounces transactional politics in favor of true statesmanship.”
So, President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr I expect will
be exercising “Visionary Leadership”
(image from r.search.yahoo.com).
BBM reorganizing PH
at the top – me, as an agriculturist and son of a farmer, I am thinking mostly
of the Department of Agriculture
(DA) and its leadership. I believe the failure of the DA to solve the problem
of poverty of millions of Filipino farmers derives from a lack of Vision – if
you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you are not fit to be Secretary of
Agriculture! (image from bromleyparishchurch.org).
Today, I propose
to help my President reorganize government by advising him go get a visionary Secretary of Agriculture. BBM
did not see that in him years ago, but now is the chance for all good men to
come to the aid of their country! BBM, please appoint William Dar as the new Secretary of Agriculture!
BBM, let us begin
the beguine!
Wikipedia says (“Begin The Beguine,” en.wikipedia.org):
“The beguine is a
dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. In his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators
1900–1950, musicologist and composer Alec
Wilder described "Begin the Beguine" as a maverick, it is an
unprecedented experiment and one which, to this day, after hearing it hundreds
of times, I cannot sing or whistle or play from start to finish without the
printed music ...
Cecil
Adams says, “Now is the time
for all good men to come to the aid of their country” was/is “a typing lesson”
(16 Sept 1977, “Who Originated, “Now Is The Time For All Good Men …” The Straight Dope, straightdope.com). And today? We have a visioning lesson.
And why William
Dar as the new Secretafy of Agriculture? He is a proven international Visionary.
Look at history – where was the nternational
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) when he
took over as ICRISAT’s Director General
(DG) in 2000? Kulelat! Tailender!
Where was ICRISAT in just a few years after Mr Dar became DG? At the forefront
of the CGIAR, a group of global partners (2025, cgiar.org).
What the
Department of Agriculture has been lacking all these years since its founding, are
Vision, Mission & Strategy (the three management failures
of the DA after it jettisoned William Dar as Secretary of Agriculture):
Vision – Where do you want to be in so many years?
Mission – What should be accomplished
to fulfil that Vision?
Strategy – What should be done to
fulfil that Mission?
Mr Marcos, let us
begin the beguine!@517
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