Stephen Speaks

#169: Covey, I mean

I'm looking for strategic fit. I need to determine internal and external alignment. What I'm doing is assessing to reduce variability, uncertainty and risk.
It's all part of good governance to minimize disjoint between management and shareholder interests.

And yes, I'm talking about relationships.

My friend Lee will probably not be surprised that I talk like this. How many dinners or Starbucks sessions have we wasted dissecting relationships - whether ours or others? What will probably floor him is that I've gotten so much worse.

Years back, a friend of mine turned to me when his fiancee stepped out of the car and confessed: You know what's hard sometimes? It's that I can't talk to her the way we can talk. She's in the medical field. She doesn't understand business jargon. And I don't understand the stuff from her work as well. I mean, I don't even know where my spleen is.

Well, I don't know either. I don't know many things too. Like the level of military spending in the Philippines. Or in the US compared to Canada. I draw a blank when people talk current affairs. But I love bullet points. And I know what reverse engineering means. I do it when I see odd couples being sweet to each other inside the bus. And I will do it when I see my friend and his fiancee-turned-wife again.