Invictus: Love and Foresight critical for the successful leader

décembre 9th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

I watched this movie last week and was amazed by the quality of the leadership. If you haven’t watch it, please do. If you already did, please do it again. This real life story demonstrate many of the concept taught in Organizational behaviour and Change Management classes. But there are two things not discussed by the professors: how investing your time and capital in a lousy rugby team can effectively take the rainbow nation from a concept to public embraces between yesterday’s abusers and abused, and of course the mighty power of love and forgiveness.
We can discuss it much deeper but the key is that, love helps you to forgive and leave yesterday’s  chaos , and helps you to understand and nurture today’s balance.
Two quotes i enjoyed very much:
1. The first Mandela-Pienaar discussion:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/quotes?qt=qt1204996

2. The President has decided to put « his whole » self in the balance to protect the name of the lousy rugby team.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/quotes?qt=qt1061062

Well, what can we add? For the road, one more? Captain Pienaar, on the eve before the greatest match of his entire life, is thinking.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/quotes?qt=qt1205000

It’s time to continue our days folks. Let me send you off with the original words of Invictus, the Victorian Poem.

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

From poethunter.com

Be blessed people.

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Oeil pour Oeil: Justice Equitable?

novembre 28th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

Samedi, Fab D. et sa famille m’ont conduit dans un culte adventiste, le sabbat comme on dit lĂ -bas. LĂ , nichĂ© entre le Salève et le Jura, se trouvait un jeune prĂ©dicateur, Gabriel de son prĂ©nom, qui nous a transportĂ© au premier siècle de notre ère, quand le Christ sur la montagne dĂ©livrait son sermon.

 

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Égalité des chances?

novembre 7th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

L’Ă©galitĂ© des chances signifie une

chance Ă©gale de laisser en arrière les plus dĂ©favorisĂ©s dans la quĂŞte personnelle de l’influence et de la position sociale.

John Rawls, Théorie de la Justice (trad. Française), p.137.

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Unlimited!

octobre 29th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

At a time when almost every resource is scarce even the air we breath, at a time when we are being 7 billion folks greedy for life and happiness, one remain unlimited for everyone one of us in the crowd. As written in Is 43:13, « I am God and always will be ». So then, feel free to reach out to Him. By definition, He can’t be busy, He’ll be there for you. He can cater for each one of us, as if He is Unlimited.

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Munjamoto

octobre 16th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

Hier nous avons mangĂ© des JoĂ«ls frits, revenus en riz sautĂ© Ă  la tomate. Les clients ont bien aimĂ©. Il y en a mĂŞme une qui a demandé  de faire plus d’une boite de riz la prochaine fois.
La vĂ©ritĂ©, c’est que ça m’a rappelĂ© les samedis chez MĂ©mĂ©. Les munjamoto, frits et rissolĂ©s, servis avec le fameux riz parfumĂ©. Une Ă©poque ! Rest In Peace, Madame FS.

ps: un clin d’oeil Ă  Clovis, NCH, le specialiste du riz sautĂ© Ă  la citĂ© U.

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Back to school

octobre 3rd, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

15 jours. Et on a l’impression qu’ils Ă©taient faits pour ça. Les conversations se dĂ©veloppent de jour en jour. La curiositĂ© aussi. Et tous les jours, ils ont envie d’y retourner. Jugez en par vous mĂŞme.

 

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A quoi ça sert tout ça ?

septembre 18th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

Hmm! VoilĂ  une question si ce n’est essentielle, alors au moins intĂ©ressante voire pertinente. Voyez plutĂ´t :

Le dernier acte en est sanglant, quelque belle que soit la comĂ©die et tout le reste: on jette enfin la terre sur la tĂŞte, et en voilĂ  pour jamais. [Pascal in Fragment 210-165, p.110, citĂ© par Soeur Emmanuelle]  

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Aaarghh! Sustainability?

août 23rd, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

I have a boy, a 5 y-o tall boy. God has blessed him with curiosity and kindness. I’d like to have a chance to eat those sweet fishes from the Atlantic Ocean. I’d like him to have a chance to kiss a girl. We were entrusted a girl, pretty, smart and with an innate knowledge of human mind. Will she ever receive white and red roses? Will she ever ever enjoy the majesty of snowfall? Or bear my mother a great-grand-child?  

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Powered by the Sun

août 23rd, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

As a side note, it is interesting to imagine that we are powered by the sun. Yeah, we need to have daylight for our skins and our eyes and our brains. But there is more! Someone on the wikipedia sustainability page framed it this way: plants store Sun’s energy through photosynthesis. Plants are ate by animals. Those animals are ate by other animals. And we humans eat some of these animals / plants. In essence, every being on this earth, human, animal, or vegetable, eats the Sun. Can you say it: I need my daily supply of eatable and non eatable sun energy to fuel my day?

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Frères Jacques

août 19th, 2011 par Juste MBAMBA

Mercredi 17/08/2011, 7h37, Abbaye de Scourmont, Forges-lez-Chimay

La comptine dit:

Frère Jacques, Frères Jacques

Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?

Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines!

Ding, Deng, Dong! Ding, Deng Dong!  

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