...your social environment, your natural environment, your economic environment, and your political environment. But what does it mean to be friendly?
Friendship, like leadership, is about identifying and respecting limits and boundaries. Just as sensible persons find it unacceptable for anyone to steal their passwords, their mobile telephones, their identity, or their tulip bulbs, most of us are not particularly happy being around people who steal our time, our attention, our peace of mind, our creative ideas or the affection of someone we love.
Lifelong companionship requires a friendly environment. Successful businesses require a friendly environment. Living a long, happy and healthy life is often dependent upon being in a friendly, healthy environment. Socially acceptable, trustworthy behaviour is usually friendly. And friendship requires good leadership if it is to be achieved and sustained, and vice versa.
One of my main duties as an ethereal being is to ensure that my delightful home town of Adelaide becomes even more friendly than it is already. Adelaide and its politicians should always be friendly to environmentally-friendly businesses, environmentally-friendly residents, environmentally-friendly visitors and environmentally-friendly events. What does being environmentally-friendly mean to you, dear reader?
Here are some friendly links:
A pleasantly cool environment
A friendly local community
Streets named after some of my friends and acquaintances
Good leaders see hierarchies as historical pictures rather than as current landscapes. Such leaders treat all persons within their organisations as colleagues, regardless of their employment roles and status. All persons within an organisation should be working towards the same environmentally-friendly goals. But who should be responsible for defining and establishing those goals in the first place?
You may know something of my contribution to good leadership in political life. If you are already familiar with my activities as a business leader, you will know that I treat some forms of speculation and most forms of gambling as if they are unfriendly and intrusive. For that reason, I am frequently invited to provide good leadership within both the local and global economies.
Creative speculations
Influential female friendships
Scientific gambling on government
A for achievements
My very dearest friend's views
To buy or not to buy
Great Aunt Twaklin advises
Nobility and no bull causes
An economical archive
If you are a leader of a business listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, you should probably now be rehearsing for the current reporting season. Practicing the right techniques, having some stage presence and timing, displaying elegance and originality can all be very difficult indeed if you and your colleagues lack talent or something easy to sell in a marketplace. Perhaps I can be of assistance.
Social networking is important, of course, wherever you are at present. Will you be attending any charity balls, gala balls, opera balls and other arts events during the reporting season? I am familiar with such occasions held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, as well as several in Vienna and Adelaide.
I am frequently willing to accept fully pre-paid, politically-neutral ethereal invitations to attend any open-minded, friendly occasions anywhere in the world for networking or philanthropic purposes, as long as there is no suppression of justifiable dissent. Do be advised, however, that I believe the waltz and other uninformed or inappropriate disturbances and indignities to be shockingly outrageous breaches of acceptable social, political and business boundaries. You may wish to make a note of these matters in your Minutes and minuets.
I do hope your registered office is in Adelaide. Have you ever considered moving your legal identity to Wilmington? It is very important to ensure you pick the right geographical location if you wish to continue along the lines of your previous business success, and perhaps even improve your performance.
Wilmington One | Wilmington Two
One of my own colleagues, a very friendly trainee copy editor by the name of Roo Bert Muddy Ocker (whose surname is sometimes shortened to MudOck) has been sounding out various Adelaide communities and businesses on my behalf. He claims to have a great deal of past experience at various Adelaide shows known as Annual General Meetings, though he is not all that keen on going to the opera, charity balls or even the Adelaide Fringe.
Mr Muddy Ocker says his favourite Adelaide performance occurred in October 2004. Were you there too? That particular performance did not have a proper title at the time but I have been told that some of the performers in question have since called their presentations The Tempestuous, based upon the responses of audiences and critics.
My favourite Adelaide performance happened in 1995, when I had a front row seat and my feet in the sand at the Space Theatre whilst sitting next to my dear friend Mr William Shakespeare. We saw the Belvoir Street Theatre Company's presentation of Mr Shakespeare's work known as The Tempest.
Perhaps you were there. Were you an audience member, one of the production staff or one of the adequately quarantined strolling players? I believe Mr Shakespeare intended the work to resemble the global economy, especially as I was one of his main advisers regarding the plot. The character of Prospero was meant to be a lady called Prosperity, but no ladies expressing a willingness to present the part could be found in time for the first performance approximately 400 years ago.
Mr Shakespeare enjoys visiting my library and even borrows some of my books from time to time. He finds my little villa to be an exceedingly friendly environment and hopes you do, too. Whatever your tastes, beliefs and opinions, I do hope you will join me, my friends and my colleagues over the coming months in an environmentally-friendly exploration of Adelaide's future and world peace.
I certainly would not want to see Adelaide's built environment develop into something resembling the Delaware Valley, the Pearl River Delta, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the Province of Naples, Milan, New York metropolitan area or even Vienna. I quite like the fact that I live somewhere resembling a remote, wondrous, beautiful and magical island. The people of Wilmington One and regional Australia may think likewise about Adelaide, as may the many millions of urban people around the world who enjoy eating bread, chapatis, pasta, cakes and noodles.
Sharing surplus food is a very friendly use of any environment, whether across the tea table in my parlour, or across the suburbs of Adelaide, or across the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges, or across the oceans and far away. I do hope you will let me know how your reporting performance is received. And I especially hope your audience is friendly.
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