"How Far Will You Let Me Take You?"

Leaders must be able to have a full understanding of the current landscape of her/his business environment (including its opportunities & threats) and then have a clear vision of where s/he wants to take her/his organization, Team, customers and community forward into a better future. The vision must be emotionally moving, motivationally empowering and insatiably desirable that it creates a colossal wave of positivity that everyone enthusiastically aligns with. The leader must be able to clearly communicate the steps on how to achieve this vision of a digital better future effectively to all stakeholders. The steps must be both intensely challenging and ridiculously simple you can almost touch it, feel it, smell it, and want it.

Associates, clients and the community are magnetized to a Visionary Leader because s/he is able to present a blueprint for building a better, easier, more profitable and comfortable way of life. A visionary leader not only excites his Associates but s/he also walks-the-talk, is the product-of-the-product, and leads at the front both during very good days and very bad days rallying everyone “never to give up”. The only question of the visionary leader to her/his stakeholders is: "How far will you let me take you?"

*About the photo

The most tremendous visionary leader I know is my my dad. He has taught us to learn something new every day which includes unlearning in order to elevate to the next level of learning and maturity. He told us to value relationships with everyone you meet… every one! He taught us the importance of being vulnerable and resilient at a very young age. He told us: “share everything I teach you especially share to those who may not have a parent to coach them”. He prepared the generations of my siblings and our kids to be ready in so many ways for when he and our mom are no longer around.

My dad, Jaime N. Salazar, Jr, published his book “Mga Tula Sa Pilipino at Ingles” in 2008. I asked him why did he not write books related to his profession as a Regional Trial Court Judge and a Law Professor for several decades in UP, UE and San Sebastian Universities. He told me with a smile, ”I am not writing for other people. I wrote this collection of poems to commemorate my childhood, to celebrate my family and as a gift for my grandchildren. Something you all can read even when I am no longer around.”

Here is the poem he wrote for my eldest daughter’s (Nina) 18th birthday when she was still under 11 years old.

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