Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 33, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 2016 — Aloha mai kākou, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Aloha mai kākou,

n the 21 st century, everything is moving faster. Change in our economy, social sensibilities and our way of life is coming at us at the speed of light. Technology means we get instant feedback on what we're doing or thinking. But I'm taking time to take a step back to reassess our direction. I've rediscovered that far from the poliheal rhetoric, what people are really concerned about are practical things. Things like making a living wage so they ean eonhnue to thrive in Hawai'i. Things like education, job placement and protecting the land and water. These aren't Hawaiian issues, but things that eoneem Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians alike. As you've seen in the pages of Ka Wai Ola in the past few months, we've been taking stock on where we've been and where we need to go. Our eommunity as a whole has been making progress on things like education and health. But on issues such as govemance, we remain all over the konane board. We need to look more introspectively on what we ean do to partner with our community without unnecessary controversy. Within OHA, we need less controversy and emohon and more discipline in the principles of govemance and in managing our tmst assets and resources. We must be more pono. We need to tackle issues that are in the best interest of our community. We need to ask whether the decisions we make today are in the best interest of OHA or in the best interest of our community. Will our decisions uplift our lāhui or do they just make us feel better?

You ean tell the maturity of a young warrior by whether he shouts a lot on the battlefield: the louder and shriller, the more inexperienced he is, the more he blows only hot air. A wiser, more seasoned warrior doesn't have to yell but has gravitas in what he says, and how and when he says it. In other words, do we force people to listen to us by being the loudest ^ or do we make them want to listen by talking calmly and educating them slowly and methodically? I believe we're at the stage in our history where people want u. SĒHk

to listen and want to hear our perspective. And that means we must change our way of leadership. That means I have to change and so does OHA. My mom had a saying Ho'oma'ema'e i kou hale mamua e hele a kipa: learn to elean your house before you visit other , families. In other words, practice what you preach before i you tell others to do the same. ^ We have to change our way of leadership. We must be more mature, civil and be better at what we do, so that when OHA speaks, people will listen. 'O au iho nō me ke aloha a me ka 'oia'i'o, Kamana'opono M. Crabbe, Ph.D. Ka Pouhana/Chief Executive Officer

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