THE lessons from Yolanda echoes strong, two years after the tragedy that we cannot gloss over what November 8 means to us. Yolanda is about leadership, decision-making and management. It is both the IQ and the EQ of leadership; being proactive, building consensus and making decisions on the spot; and of managing adequately, human and financial resources in order to respond to a natural disaster. Part of management is the ability to communicate effectively to all parties involved, never framing it as you versus us.

Yolanda showed the maturity of our leaders and the ability to care for the greater number than the few, selected ones. Yolanda also showed that the most powerful man in the country does not have a team of seasoned implementers, setting aside the experts in the bureaucracy, both uniformed and civilian, to respond to the biggest calamity the country experienced.

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