The Kissinger Approach and The Barber’s Way |
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Written by Benjamin G. Maynigo | |||
Saturday, 20 March 2010 08:20 | |||
TAKE IT FROM MY BARBER By Benjamin G. Maynigo The Kissinger Approach and The Barber’s Way I read the news that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was just recently hospitalized for stomach pains. The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was known for introducing Shuttle Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in the ‘70s. Learning it in my early professional and entrepreneurial life, I described to my barber the Kissinger approach to negotiations this way: Kissinger saw his good-looking and smart nephew while traveling to Kissinger shuttled to Kissinger went back to U pon hearing this story, my barber commented, “The Kissinger approach is not really original. Do you know how I started this barbershop in the heart of “Being a barber in the Then, I went to the owner of the building which was vacant at the time and offered a partnership together with the rich Filipino doctor also known to him. “Why should I do that?” “Because in your building will be the first all beautiful, an all-woman barbershop in Metro D.C. where men and their boys would rather go,” I said. He agreed. Then I went around hair cutteries and Vietnamese-run barbershops recruiting attractive female barbers. The common question, “Why should I?” The common answer, “It would be in As you can see, it was not really all women. My barber is a man and so is the doctor and landlord. The barbershop is still on-going. So are the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and my barber does not foresee any conclusion anytime soon. Yet the Kissinger Approach is somewhat like the Barber’s Way. # # # E ditor's Notes: The author is a Washington, DC-based International and Cyber Lawyer with an LL.B and LL.M; an Educator with an M.A. in Human Resource Development; An IT Chief Executive Officer with M.B.A.; Community and Trade Association Leader; Lecturer/Speaker/Writer; Political Strategist; and Technology Pioneer.
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