Strategic management

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After 30 years or even in the next century where do Bangladeshis wants to go or want to be are to be answered right at the moment when we are talking or working.

Then strategies have to be fixed how to get there.

Questions revolving around the former heads of two main political parties over more than 30 years are still artificially dividing the people of the country in two groups or may be more. Every year young people who do not have institutional path for their education and future career development take up the short cut political way and then become politically charged terrorists, while they should be learning and building up skills to survive.

As a strategic manager to me playing with puzzles or riddles of 27-30 years back is not important. I do believe that I share the same feelings of most of the 150 million people in Bangladesh. We have to take note of the following.

1. Bangladesh is an independent country. Once a boy becomes an independent man he has to take care of himself.

2. Bangladesh has a separate society, separate needs, separate problems. These problems are socio-economic problems. Many of the problems in Bangladesh including corruption and lawlessness stem from poverty and lack of opportunities where survival for the fittest takes a beastly form.

3. Bangladeshis have to solve their own problems within themselves.

4. Independence and religion should not be turned into political issues.

Easy to say but difficult to do: So how the strategic management would work?

I would give some examples.

Take a look at China, Hong Kong or Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore or Europe and Japan . What do you observe? It can be observed that what is common in all these cases is far from a reality in the countries like Bangladesh.

In our childhood we all learned that Bangladesh is a riverine country. But where are those rivers or water channels now? One of the greatest threats to Bangladesh are natural calamities. So one of our main tasks should be controlling nature to the extent possible. If not possible at least we should try to control damage. There are many other areas where improvement is possible through sound management.

The topics of strategic management are never ending. So is this discussion, I feel like sharing my thoughts with those interested in finding faults in the way we manage things in Bangladesh.