Chairman of the National Commercial Bank Michael Lee Chin has expressed concern about the level of confidence local investors have in the Jamaican economy.
Addressing last Friday’s Jamaica Exporters’ Association dialogue with private sector leaders, he indicated that the difference between the wealth of local and international investors is the level of confidence individuals have in the country.
He has called on private sector individuals to change their approach to success by employing 99 percent strategy with only one percent of execution. “Success is one per cent strategy and 99 per cent execution. We in Jamaica, we strategise a lot, but I think we have it backwards with 99 per cent strategy and one per cent execution and unless we ‘fess up we are not going to change,”
Lee Chin has instead charged private sector leaders to jump to action and create solutions instead of dwelling on complaints about high interest rates, stagnation and politicians.
He says “I want us to make a promise to ourselves today that whenever we hear veranda talk about the complaints about politicians, stagnation, high interests — have an allergic reaction, and say to ourselves that’s a catalyst for all of us to jump into action and create that solution because someone out there is looking at and saying what a fantastic country this is”.