Earned authority

Authority can be given but leadership must be earned. – Claudia Gray, American writer One has to earn the right to authority to assume a position of power whether leading corporate governance, running a government, or even managing a social club. Earned authority does not mean the power to make persuasive statements and powerful speeches […]

Foo agrees with remarks on CM

KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth secretary-general Milton Foo agrees with Santubong MP Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar’s remarks that the Chief Minister and his Cabinet still have the full authority to govern Sarawak throughout the Emergency period even beyond the expiry of their terms on June 6. “I agree with the view […]

Who’s dying to be a Datuk?

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles. — Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian diplomat On my last trip back to Kuching in August, a conversation about datukship cropped up among two friends over breakfast in a kopitiam. Call it gossip if you will (aha, men also gossip too). It was about a mutual […]

Does the IGP have the authority?

It is not guns that kill people and animals; it is people who pull the trigger. REVOCATION OF RIFLE LICENCES UNDER ARMS ACT 1960 KUCHING: The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador might overstep his authority if he revoked lawfully issued rifle licences. The IGP had allegedly announced that all rifle licences […]