Interesting topic discussed by Associate Prof Dr. Azahari Ismail of UPM which I think worth
sharing here. These five types of friend are actually derived from the
main topic discussed at February 5th 2010 regarding ‘Self development As a strategy
of Human Resources Development”, and among several elements to instill
self development attitude within individual is through network expansion
through multiple and variable friendship and networks. This is how the
types of friend becomes related to self development As a strategy of
HRD.
Just decor picture.
So the five types of friend that one
should have in order to develop his/her self development are listed as:
- Spy – One needs a kind
of friends who have every information at their fingertip, means that
this type of friends have all kind of details, secrets (even a gossip)
and etc so that a person can rely on them to get any information needed;
- Thinker – A person
also need a kind of friends who encourage thinking at deep level and
always make their friends wonder for any possible situation. This kind
of friends will shape one’s personal cognitive ability and encourage
creative thinking in their friend’s mind;
- Radio Station – This
is a kind of friend that will do the good PR for his/her friend. The
function of this friend actually to disperse any good information about
his/her friend to others so that his/her friend can easily earn respect
from community of networks;
- Workhorse – This kind
of friend offers nothing to his/her friend except good and loyal
service, with this kind of friends around, an individual can ask them to
do whatever jobs, assignment and task and they are willingly perform
that just for the sake of friendship; and
- ‘Bouncer/Godfather‘ –
In Malay we call it ‘Kaki Pukul’, this kind of friends actually have all
the above four qualities which made them so reliable and much needed by
their friends.
So in term of self development which
later lead to leadership development, an individual must have all the
five types of friends mentioned above surrounding him/her, So that he or
she can emulate how these five types of friends inter-related with each
other and and can give advantages for him/her. -Source :
Jazmanie.
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