Lately, I’ve caught myself checking out a couple of films with James Coburn on YouTube. To the young and uninitiated, Mr. Coburn was a star of around four decades starting in the ‘60’s.
He was lanky, not particularly handsome, but, parlayed this self-assured walk and, more famously, an amazing grin to stardom. He’d excelled in roles that had him employ those two attributes – confident, suave, criminal, devilish.
That was his mark and that’s what made him memorable (check out his Skyriders here on YouTube should you happen to find the time).
Some of the things I’ve learned having been back here for five years now: With Filipinos, you can actually come up with lousy products, but, just be good in relationships and projecting some sort of positive image.
Absolutely, absolutely nothing can be solved over a nice, long lunch. Go ask the BIR, politicians, criminals and cops.
I guess one should ask oneself, among others, these questions: Am I relationship-centric?, what do I think of meetings - a venue to cultivate meaning with God's other creations or just absolutely boring time wasters? What makes me indelible to others?
Lastly, we continue on with a few more nuggets from Abraham:
IX. Lead by Being Led
- If you are a good leader, when your work is done, your aim fulfilled, your people will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Try not to feel insecure or threatened by your followers.
- Let disputing parties work out their differences by bringing them together and guiding their dialogue.
- Write letters to your subordinates making the personal acknowledgement that they were right and you were wrong.
Written September 13, 2014
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