{"id":16268,"date":"2022-11-24T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=16268"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:00:04","slug":"the-importance-of-a-ruler-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=16268","title":{"rendered":"The importance of a ruler\/leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tsekung asked about government and Confucius replied: &#8216;People must have sufficient to eat; there must be a sufficient army; and there must be confidence of people in the ruler.&#8217; &#8216;If you are forced to give up one of these three objectives, what would you go without first,&#8217; asked Tsekung. Confucius said, &#8216; I would go without the army first.&#8217; &#8216;And if you were forced to go without one of the two remaining factors, what would you rather go without,&#8217; asked Tsekung again. &#8216;I would rather go without sufficient food for the people&#8230;. [A] nation cannot exist without confidence in its ruler.'&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 From The Wisdom of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=china&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"0\">#China<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=india&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"1\">#India<\/a>\u00a0by Lin Yutang<\/p>\n<p>Leadership matters to purpose.<\/p>\n<p>This is why\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=neomarxists&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"2\">#NeoMarxists<\/a>, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=postmodernists&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"3\">#postmodernists<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=communists&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"4\">#communists<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=attackinstitutions&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"5\">#attackinstitutions<\/a>\u00a0and undermine identity, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=identitypolitics&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7001543246287925248\" data-attribute-index=\"6\">#identitypolitics<\/a>\u00a0because leaves the people nothing to fight for, so perfect scenario for mass manipulation of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Ar you contributing to or attacking your intitutions?<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tsekung asked about government and Confucius replied: &#8216;People must have  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}