Manage­ment is dif­fer­ent from Lead­er­ship.
Man­agers have a posi­tion of author­ity vested in them by the com­pany, and their sub­or­di­nates work for them and largely do as they are told. Man­age­ment is trans­ac­tional, in that the man­ager tells the sub­or­di­nate what to do, and the sub­or­di­nate does this not because they are a blind robot, but because they have been promised a reward (at min­i­mum their salary) for doing so. [from Chang​ing​Minds​.org]
Lead­ers on the other hand do not have sub­or­di­nates — at least not when they are lead­ing. Many organizational …

Sinead O’Connor’s one of the most bril­liant artists when I was grow­ing up. She’s the Lady Gaga of my generation–pure bril­liant genius minus the crazy stunts.

Noth­ing Com­pares To You has been called by VH1 as one of the Top 100 Songs of 90’s, for good rea­son. It’s one of the best made songs lyri­cally and musi­cally. It’s music is haunt­ing, almost pained, and you could feel the pas­sion behind the lyrics. It talks of an expe­ri­ence we’re all famil­iar with–the painful mem­ory of good­bye, the love that could have been per­fect, and the tragedy of the one that got away.

Because we love, we are never the same again. We are for­ever scarred. We will always remember.

Ever since I became inde­pen­dent from my par­ents (when I lived in a dorm back in col­lege), I’ve become some sort of “gro­cery shop­ping expert”. I’ve had sev­eral inspi­ra­tions of course: (1) I used to go to a gro­cery near my school that was known for cheaper goods than the more-popular-but-more-expensive ones in the malls. I save on transpo cost and I save on gro­ceries as well. (2) I also remem­ber a Jesuit scholas­tic (now a priest) who would give us a gro­cery list that would already be num­bered accord­ing to its aisle posi­tion in the gro­ceries. Gro­cery shop­ping was lit­er­ally a breeze because of that. (3) Right now, I keep track of my expenses in a handy file that is easy to open in my Mac. I learned that what you can­not mea­sure, you really can­not man­age; so I make sure that I’m able to mea­sure my expenses, so I have a chance of man­ag­ing it.

This was some­thing I gave as a homily years ago when I was still a Jesuit and my par­ents cel­e­brated their 25^th Wed­ding Anniver­sary. In a world where talk is cheap and com­mit­ments more and more tem­po­rary, some peo­ple do stay together despite every­thing. This is about my mom and my dad. And even if their anniver­sary is still in June, I would like to share this at this early part of the year, because it is a good reminder for us to be there for the long haul.

We had the mass in my favorite chapel in Sacred Heart Novi­tiate, the Immac­u­late Con­cep­tion Chapel. It has one of the most beau­ti­ful stat­ues of Mary ever. I hope you could go to Sacred Heart Novi­tiate, in Novaliches, Que­zon City, Philip­pines, and pray in that cute lit­tle chapel and behold the beau­ti­ful Mary pray­ing with us and pray­ing for us as we start our jour­neys this year. May she be there for the long haul. And may we con­tinue to be pleas­antly sur­prised at the many things hap­pen­ing to us.

This is beau­ti­ful stuff. Not just because of the things you learn from the arti­cle but also because of how the whole lay-out was made. By THE OATMEAL.