Continued from yesterday.Good leaders strive as much as possible to create an environment for people to be happy and establish instruments or mechanisms of measuring it. The neglect of this fundamental principle is the surest way of signing oneself off from the platform of political leadership. However, rarely do leaders get down to measuring the people’s happiness emanating from their development efforts. Leaders’ content is usually at the level of seeing physical structures like roads, schools, power stations, clean water and sanitation facilities etc. These facilities are indeed important but should not be the end in themselves. The next step should be whether they bring about happiness in the people. Research should bring out data that show the link of such facilities to peoples’ happiness. The August 12 elections in Zambia evidently brought this issue. While the leaders strongly shouted their achievement in infrastructure development, the ordinary voter was strongly shouting back saying but shall we eat […]
HAPPINESS FOR MOST PEOPLE: THE FUNDAMENTAL GOAL OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
