Hope you all are enjoying your long weekend ka.
I'm leaving for the north to help Fulbright with a group of American teachers visiting Thailand to learn more about our country so they can teach their students back home ka. I'll sure learn more from them too.
Several days ago, I was given a book, 'พลิกมุมมอง', which I finished within several hours. Even so, I reread it to read between the lines with more thinking ka.
Ajarn Prasit Tunsuwan is the author who shared his experiences working in large companies and then Thailand Productivity Institute. The stories told me what have been valid till today ka. It also revealed who Ajarn Prasit has been.....a life-long learner and thinker ka.
What I've learned from the book are:
- Vision and threat seem to go along with each other well especially in time of speedy changes when vision needs to be realistic to aim for the better of the overall organization.
- While servant leaders help guide their team to grow further like coaches, they need to balance well to be bosses to take lead and offer orders at the right time too.
- Good leaders have to be role models as enthusiastic learners for their staff to see and imitate.
- Being morally sound in business when survival is the key issue is the hardest for leaders to stand firm. I like it most when Ajarn Prasit tried it on himself to place a grey piece of paper on a bigger black paper to see that the grey one seemed to shine out in white! It ignited so much thinking ka.
- How I wish our thousands of study visits organized could have given/could generate benefits like what Ajarn Prasit got even after decades have passed, he still can share them. I wonder how many have maximized the learning for use in their organizations. Had we managed well with the great sense of learning and responsibility, our country could have achieved much higher level of development ka.
After all, leadership is a forever classic issue that requires us to have more learning and thinking with right actions at the right times ka!
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