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Statesmanship
STATESMANSHIP

Definition: Skill in managing state affairs.
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* Skill/management should be:


1. Purposeful (PEACE AND HARMONY).

2. Necessary (GROWTH, PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT).


* and would involve:


3. Seeking guidance or asking for information from the better informed and more experienced, and working with what is heard, received or discovered (LEARNING AND PLANNING).

4. Consulting all the stakeholders who are available and/or able to make meaningful contributions (SELFLESSNESS AND HIGH-MINDEDNESS).

5. Demonstrating openness and transparency (RECEPTIVE AND RESPONSIVE).

6. Exhibiting boldness and daring, in the decisions taken, for the good of the majority (COURAGE AND RISK-TAKING).

7. The full display of candour (simplicity), intelligence (common sense), persistence (determination), if required, and irrefutable integrity (sincerity of purpose) (WILLINGNESS AND FREEWILL).


* including:


8. Preparing for disappointment, failure, let-down, etc. and/or knowing when to quit, if required (FORWARD-LOOKING).

9. Making some compromise, where necessary (SACRIFICE).

10. Being decisive and incisive, in respect of official acts, actions, activities, etc. (THOUGHTFULNESS AND PRESENCE OF MIND).

11. Being timely or prompt in decision-making (REASONING).

12. Doing the very best that can lawfully be done, in a particular circumstance, after adequate research, cross-checks, etc. (DILIGENCE).


* hopefully,


13. Leads to an awareness, recognition and acceptance of dissenting views and respect for the opposition's standpoint on all vital issues (INSIGHT).

14. Achieves objective(s) (GOOD GOVERNANCE AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE).
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See perfect STATESPERSON.



Quote: "Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians". - Fletcher Knebel.

Quotable quote: "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better be alone than in bad company". - George Washington.

Quote: "We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost". - Charlie Chaplin.


* It's some divine majestic art, consisting of forgiveness and stooping to serve, both rolled into one.

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