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A Tribute to Jaycee Pressy

“MEMBERS don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

We quoted this in reply to a comment on my blog on the “Role (Past) Presidents Play.”

Members in an organization like JCI get motivated no matter what the odds may be on tasks they do when they feel the leader cares for them, even through mere pats on the back. Much more when the leader demonstrates affirmation.

This brings to fore my memory of my mother, Presentacion T. Eviota, Jaycee Pressy, charter member of the Cebu Hara Jaycees (JCI Cebu Hara), the person who brought me to the world of JCI, whose birthday we remembered last Nov. 21st.

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Gene Kranz at NASA.

“FAILURE is not an option.”

So goes the famous line NASA flight director Eugene “Gene” F. Kranz uttered to flight controllers at Mission Control in Houston on April 13, 1970 after declaring:

“We’ve never lost an American in space and we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch!”

Actor Ed Harris said it well when he played the role of the person, who brought Neil Armstrong to the moon and saved the crew of Apollo 13, in the 1995 movie.

The line is typically American, truly western and very results-oriented.

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How about Obama - Clinton?
And why not Roxas - Escudero?
How about at the local front in Cebu?

For Mandaue City, we’d want  Carlo Fortuna to continue serving, likely still as Vice Mayor. But many of us, his friends in Junior Chamber International (JCI), now want him to serve as National Executive Vice President for the Visayas.

Agree?

It will be his spring board for the National Presidency by 2011, if not in 2010 only that he’ll be busy with the local election in that year.

More discussions in my Multiply page.

By the way, Carlo will fly to the US Thursday, June 5. He’s the only Filipino local official to be part of 16 other non-Americans to participate in the United States International Leadership Visitors Program.

The 4 week leadership program, which
will bring the participants to different States in the US from the East to the
West Coast, will focus on U.S. Federal System of Government, the functions of
the State and Local Governments and its interactions with the Federal
Government and how elections are organized and how private individuals and
organizations work with local governments to provide services and ensure accountability.

The program’s participants are
established or potential foreign leaders in government, politics, media,
education, economics, labor, human rights and a variety of other fields.
Previous Philippine participants include multi-awarded Mayor Jesse Robredo
of Naga City, Mayor Edward Hagedorn of
Puerto Princesa City, Cong. Nerissa Soon-Ruiz and Solicitor General Agnes
Devanadera.

Let’s have coffee, and discuss more!

Lots have now unfolded about the running box-office in
Philippine news drama, the ZTE-NBN issue. I’d like to share with you my thoughts … with a bit of
humor in the end. May you share yours, too?

Just read and comment at http://ctenews.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/these-special-operations-in-the-philippines/.

Cheers and good day!

Fellow Friendsters,

I’ve started (and hopefully will sustain) a
digest series at http://leadersdigest.wordpress.com/. Kindly take a
minute or two to read my first item. Please leave a comment, if that is
okay.

     — Cerwin

Hi Friendsters,

I wonder what you may think about my thoughts here at http://ctenews.wordpress.com/?

Kindly take a minute or two to read this … then leave a comment, if that is okay?

Salamat!