The ROLLING STONE and Moss

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Let's reminisce some more guys...

Take a close look and see if this guy is familiar to you. He sort of hops from one company to another, not because his former employers dismissed him nor terminated his tenure. It's just that he simply disliked their management style and culture.

My unassuming multi-millionnaire former employer, Mr. Jack, intrigued me when we chanced upon reminiscing our youthful escapades over a cup of coffee during one of our usual mid-afternoon breaktime in the office.

Had he remained a diehard "8-12; 1-5" six days a week technician-employee for the next ten long years since he got employed in a garment manufacturing firm in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, in late 1960s, I would not have met and known him in August 1983 as the modest multi-millionnaire-proprietor who was instrumental in giving me the FIRST EVER managerial career break that led to my further growth, progress and advancement in the field of corporate resource-conversion as well as human resource organization, management, and development.

How Mr. Jack became a millionnaire-proprietor of a progressive labor-intensive knitting and ready-to-wear manufacturing and marketing enterprise, employing some 30-40 strong workers in a little less than a decade from 1974 to 1983, is one typical "Scrap-to-Crop-up" success story, only himself is worthy to tell and emote with spontaneity.

One episode in his early adulthood adventure that struck my attentive chord is his recollection of a disheartening and tormenting encounter with an autocratic former boss. The fed up Jackie, who couldn't take it anymore, following a repeated verbal skirmish with the lording over superior, called it quit at the time when the firm needed his technical expertise the most.

Feeling bad and quite mad, the tensed boss retorted with a resounding tenor, saying in effect,"Jackie boy, you're no different from a rolling stone down the stream to nowhere...you'll never gather moss..."

Well, Jackie boy and my boyhood then had something in common - a rolling stone temperament. Today, thanks Providence, I'm stuck around and found a home since that great day when I found myself already bumped and laid upon the One Big and Stable Corner Stone, The Rock of All Ages - The Great Master and Lord of servant-leaders whose management style is one of compassion, humility, justice, understanding, patience and forgiveness.

Friend, remain steadfast and gather more nourishing moss of compassion to feed the hungry souls who might still be rolling down the stream of disappointments.

Be of Good Courage!