Letter of the Day | Time to dump Dave Cameron

THE EDITOR, Sir:

It is past ironic, that in Harvard Business School guru, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter's highly acclaimed 2004 book - Confidence: How Winning Streaks And Losing Streaks Begin And End - the West Indies cricket team, under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards, provided a critical case study for her analysis of winning streaks.

It takes no rigorous analysis to correlate the performance of the Windies, begun under Frank Worrell and perfected by Lloyd and Richards, with the contemporaneous evolving self-confidence of the people of the Caribbean, at home and in the diaspora. This is evident in their self-assertion and the resulting global impact of Caribbean culture, intellect and athleticism.

What is of immediate relevance to those like me - forced to retreat, for the better part of two decades, within the comfort of a cocoon of nostalgia - is Moss Kanter's prescriptions for moving from a culture of losing to one of winning.

The principal strategy is a radical change of executive leadership; preferably to one which had no prior knowledge of the line of business of the beleaguered organisation, but who comes minus the label of 'loser'.

It is clear Cricket West Indies' chairman and the entire board have studiously avoided reading this book.

Caribbean people, therefore, need to send Dave Cameron et al a very simple, terse and unambiguous message:

Tek weh oonooself!

PAUL JENNINGS

Development Consultant