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Storming, norming, performing, celebrating stages in Guyana
Dear Editor,
There are stages through which organizations, institutions and societies develop. Likewise, leaders go through several stages of development in each of these entities.
Guyana has spent over 50 years as a society to reach the Storming Stage of development which is characterized by our leaders still trying to understand each other and arguing full time.
When will we reach the Norming Stage where we can agree on how we are going to do things in acceptable and satisfactory ways?
When are we going to reach the Performing Stage where progress, prosperity and the good life would be achieved?
When are we going to reach the Celebration Stage where we can sing, dance and boast about our achievements as a cohesive society?
Using the fifty years we took to reach the Storming Stage in which our society is still embedded, I reckon that we have to wait another one hundred and fifty or more years.
Now what about our leaders? If for over fifty years, they are still at the Position Level fighting over territory and protocol, when will they reach the Permission Level where the decisions they make will be acceptable to our people?
When will they reach the Production Level where profits are created and our people see property and a future?
When will they reach the People Development Level where there are new leaders who will succeed the wheel-chair ready and infirm ones?
When will they reach the Servant-Hood level where they will share the shirt button glory with lesser leaders? I guess it will be another two hundred years or more.
What about the much vaunted social cohesion goals. For there to be social cohesion, people must be willing to belong and contribute to Guyana.
When will our people see a future in staying in Guyana? When will we see shorter lines for visas to regions 11, 12 and so on? Maybe another 500 years using the foregoing as benchmarks. These are serious challenges which people who are not permanently visionless must see.
Ed Singh
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