Tuesday, August 19, 2008

What's your horizon?

My perspective changed when I read this from a book entitled Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell

How can dimissing a person be handled properly?
The essence of doing it right is in maintaining this perspective:

"When you appropriately fire a person from a position in which he is failing, you are actually releasing him from that failure and freeing him to seek a position in which he can find success. With a proper release, it's even possible to instill in a person the excitement that comes from anticipating a new adventure" ~Bob Biehl
(quoted from Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell)

The highlight here is not about firing someone. It stood out to me because of its optimistic perspective on the whole issue. Who ever thought that firing can be a good thing? It definitely wasn't the first thing that came to my mind. This in return reminded me of a sermon point...

" Look for the positive in every situation" ~ Bro. Kim Hock


I hope this entry instills "postive" in you. :)

2 comments:

Julian said...

therefore maybe stealing pictures aren't that bad in an optimistic perspective?

hahaha, but nice ba~

Gilbert Wong said...

not bad~ good point u found der dear.. glad the book helps~ :)