Speaking on the importance of vision and doing the right thing, Joseph Campbell, the American mythologist, lecturer and author (The Hero of a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth), once observed that lots of people spend their lives climbing a ladder and then they get to the top of the wrong wall. In most losing organizations, their leaders accomplish the wrong things efficiently. They climb the wrong wall.

I gravely fear that this has happened to the much-criticized government response to super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan, at the height of its landfall and in the relief, recovery and rehabilitation effort afterwards. And this may explain the quizzical saga of former senator Panfilo Lacson, who was appointed first as rehabilitation czar and then as presidential adviser.

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