People with a BIG heart!

That’s what the father of that dying girl said about American Medical Evacuation (private jet), among them Dr Phuoc Le.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#35171116

That’s what I call leadership: do what is necessary, what is important and pay the price, including unintended consequences.

If it’s easy, it wouldn’t need leadership.

The White House did step in at the last-minute to resume Military airlift or even better, sending Army doctors in-country.

M*A*S*H style.

We are living in a post-Davos world. By that, I mean, nations used to be well-regarded due to the size of the bomb or the bank .

Now, we have moved on to the Commons and spheres of influence: thought leadership and intellectual capital.

Climate, energy, disaster relief, innovation and collaboration. Stuff that we see huge companies advocate on TV these days (Intel, IBM and GE. By the way, it’s John Travolta who flew his plane to Haiti to bring relief supplies. The entertainment industry seems to have acted with their feet and fund).

In The Empathic Civilization, Rifkin argues that we have built a connected society which enables empathy at an unprecedented scale, yet in doing so, we have depleted so much energy . There lies the tension between empathy and entropy (depletion of resources). Compassion fatigue. Burning out.

Just a few days ago, Governor Christ of Florida announced that the State is officially recovering from the downturn. Then the next day, he said he needed more money to accommodate Haitian refugees because of  Florida proximity to the disaster area.

One day we were ready for empathy (idealism). The next, entropy (pragmatism).

People with a big heart! Yet with shrinking wallet ( Madoff emptied it all out).

Again, we will look back to 2010 as the turning point in human progress: to tell the story at Grammy (Album of the Year), and to tell the story of a Post-Davos world i.e. global powers has since been consisted of bomb, buck and big heart (hard and soft power).