{"id":72346,"date":"2017-12-01T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=72346"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:48:11","slug":"thisara-perera-failures-are-the-pillars-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/01\/thisara-perera-failures-are-the-pillars-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"THISARA PERERA \u2013 FAILURES ARE THE PILLARS OF SUCCESS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

When we were chatting about newly appointed ODI captain of Sri Lanka, there was a general consensus that Thisara had more failures than successes.\u00a0 Then a colleague of mine said failures are the Pillars of Success\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Another friend promptly replied, Yes, he had more Pillars, but not a single building\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the retirement of cricketing greats Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Dilshan Thilakaratne, the cricket captaincy was a game of musical chairs.\u00a0 In different formats of the game, so far we had, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Upul Tharanga, Rangana Herath, Lahiru Thirimanne, Chamara Kapugedera and now Thisara Perera, since the retirement of Dilshan Thilekeratne in 2012.\u00a0 Altogether 8 captains during past 5 years.\u00a0 Now there are few other names being tossed around for the near future.\u00a0 They are:\u00a0 Asela Gunarantne, Dananjaya Silva, Milinda Siriwardene, Kusal Janith Perera, Kusal Mendis and Kaushal Silva.<\/p>\n

A captain is a leader.\u00a0 Prominent persons in charge of the game in Sri Lanka had promised us a glorified future, with a strategic plan for Leadership Succession.\u00a0 We now ask them, where is your Leadership Succession Plan?<\/strong> We have invested large sums of limited resources to recruit top class \u00a0\u00a0Coaches to achieve positive results of building Leadership Succession. In addition, the services of Araviinda, Vass, Hashan, Marvan, Sanath,Gurusinghe, Romesh Ratnayake, Roy Dias, Upul Chandana were integrated into different spheres of domestic and international competitions for training and development.<\/p>\n

The Wheel fell apart, when suddenly Angelo fell ill.\u00a0\u00a0 In leadership succession, isn\u2019t there a back-up or reserve pool of potential captains? Where and who were they?\u00a0 If those names have been mentioned in the second para of this article, then question need to be asked, Why they were not given a fair chance and length of time to prove their talents?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the retirement of Kumar Sangakkara ( in quick succession after Mahela\u2019s\u00a0 retirement) Dilshan\u00a0 was brought in, who held the role only for 2 years.\u00a0 At that time there was a great sense of urgency to flush out Dilshan and crown Angelo, even though Angelo might not have completed all facets of So called Leadership Course\u201d \u00a0\u00a0pioneered by Sri Lanka Cricket.<\/p>\n

Is Thisara Perera being USED in the current episode as a stop-gap and bring back Angelo just before the World Cup?\u00a0 Do you call it \u00a0\u00a0the Implementation of Strategic Plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to veteran Management Guru Prof. Peter Drucker The only\u00a0definition<\/strong>\u00a0of a leader is someone who has followers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Let\u2019s bring back the skippers who have already been tested:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Lasith Malinga<\/p>\n

    Angelo Mathews,<\/p>\n

    Dinesh Chandimal,<\/p>\n

    Upul Tharanga,<\/p>\n

    Rangana Herath,<\/p>\n

    Lahiru Thirimanne,<\/p>\n

    Chamara Kapugedera<\/p>\n

    Thisara Perera<\/p>\n

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    1. Now let\u2019s bring back the potential skippers<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Asela Gunarantne,<\/p>\n

      Dananjaya Silva,<\/p>\n

      Milinda Siriwardene,<\/p>\n

      Kusal Janith Perera,<\/p>\n

      Kausal Mendis<\/p>\n

      Kaushal Silva<\/p>\n

      Now, reverting to Prof. Drucker, we should ask Which Leader \u00a0has the Most Effective \u00a0\u00a0followers within the team\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      By M D P DISSANAYAKE When we were chatting about newly appointed ODI captain of Sri Lanka, there was a general consensus that Thisara had more failures than successes.\u00a0 Then a colleague of mine said failures are the Pillars of Success\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Another friend promptly replied, Yes, he had more Pillars, but not a single building\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}