Sunday, May 15, 2005
Of leadership and men
One question has always puzzled me no matter how much i try to rationalise it...i have always wondered what it takes for a person to be a leader? I'm talking about a leader that is naturally looked on to lead and not a person that was elected or put into that position. Its a pretty gray area, different people seem to react differently to different types of leadership tactics, some need a leader which tells them what to do in a military manner while some others need soomeone who sets the general objectives of a project and then delegates duties. What then makes a true leader? what does a person need? Some prefer their leaders to be somber and serious while some others prefer them to be jokesters and funny in order to releive tension...if a siingle individual was to follow the needs of everybody around him, he would develop multiple personalities man...I wonder what the Prophet did in his time to do his thing?
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Blair Affair
Three cheers for democracy!
Its the only political system in the world that lets good, educated and politically aware people choose their potential leader. Hurrah for democracy! the only system that lets people make the same mistake twice! It was bad enough that Bush Junior was elected back into office, but that was expected because of strong Bible Belt support and the current Christian Revivalism in the U.S., but Tony? Come on...
Weeks before the election, we saw Tony being questioned about his involvement in Iraq and the lies that he told about the weapons of mass destruction that were supposed to be hidden somewhere in the numerous harems of Saddam's palace
Furthermore, the Labour Party's economic policies have been receiving a lot of flak from the British public...Those two reasons would be enough to signal death to any political candidate, but somehow Blair seems to have survived...albeit with a significant reduction in his majority votes.
May be it was a case of the Brits not wanting the other guy more than Blair...Better the devil you know than the one you don't right? Mr Howard from the Conservatives has reputedly resigned as a result of his three time in a row defeat at Mr. Blair.
Democracy has spoken.
Its the only political system in the world that lets good, educated and politically aware people choose their potential leader. Hurrah for democracy! the only system that lets people make the same mistake twice! It was bad enough that Bush Junior was elected back into office, but that was expected because of strong Bible Belt support and the current Christian Revivalism in the U.S., but Tony? Come on...
Weeks before the election, we saw Tony being questioned about his involvement in Iraq and the lies that he told about the weapons of mass destruction that were supposed to be hidden somewhere in the numerous harems of Saddam's palace
Furthermore, the Labour Party's economic policies have been receiving a lot of flak from the British public...Those two reasons would be enough to signal death to any political candidate, but somehow Blair seems to have survived...albeit with a significant reduction in his majority votes.
May be it was a case of the Brits not wanting the other guy more than Blair...Better the devil you know than the one you don't right? Mr Howard from the Conservatives has reputedly resigned as a result of his three time in a row defeat at Mr. Blair.
Democracy has spoken.
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Work stress
at long last i have finally manged to find the time to actually update this damn blog of mine...honestly its kinda turning into something of an addiction...Anyways, i finally got myself off my bum and got a job. Currrently doing surveys of customer satisfaction for Company X an IT solution provider, whch incidently is a fancy corporate sounding name for a company that puts together systems for customers...I learnt one very important lesson at work...the value of patience...The interviews have to be done over the phone and the customers have to answer a series of questions in order for the survey to be complete and for me to get paid...:-)
As expected, i got more than my fair share of Malaysian "courtesy" so to speak. Have you ever stopped to consider the effect you manners may have on the person that you are peaking to on the phone? I encountered people who seemed to think that telephone manners is an alien concept. My job involved me calling the IT dept heads to ascertain whether they were satisfied with the products provided by the company and if not to identify the problems that they faced so that the company could inprove its service, but more often than not i was treated as a nuisance and a bother to their schedules. That in itself is not a problem, but some of them seemed to go out of their way to be rude to me.
Just goes to show that Malaysians have a long way to go in terms of professionalism and courtesy.
So folks the next time someone 'inconveniences' you with a five minute customer survey, cut the guy a little slack, alright...he's just trying to pay the bills. If you don't want to answer the survey, say so, and make their lives a little easier.
As expected, i got more than my fair share of Malaysian "courtesy" so to speak. Have you ever stopped to consider the effect you manners may have on the person that you are peaking to on the phone? I encountered people who seemed to think that telephone manners is an alien concept. My job involved me calling the IT dept heads to ascertain whether they were satisfied with the products provided by the company and if not to identify the problems that they faced so that the company could inprove its service, but more often than not i was treated as a nuisance and a bother to their schedules. That in itself is not a problem, but some of them seemed to go out of their way to be rude to me.
Just goes to show that Malaysians have a long way to go in terms of professionalism and courtesy.
So folks the next time someone 'inconveniences' you with a five minute customer survey, cut the guy a little slack, alright...he's just trying to pay the bills. If you don't want to answer the survey, say so, and make their lives a little easier.
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