The Secret of the Seven Seeds
A Parable of Leadership and Life
Chapter One
Wake-Up Call
Ignacio Rodríguez was anxiously awaiting his turn at the
cardiologist's. At forty-two years of age, he still couldn't
believe that he had heart trouble. He had always been a
healthy man. Lately he had been working eighteen hours a day,
Monday through Saturday, stopping only to sleep. He had neglected
his children, his wife, and his body. He never did any
exercise. He drank and smoked too much. He ate mostly fast
food, because he often had lunch at the office while he was
working.
He still remembered the day his father died. Before dying,
don Jose asked him to take on the general management of R & G,
a large family import business. Jose Rodríguez had built
R & G into the market leader and now Ignacio had the responsibility
of keeping the firm in that position. But things had
become complicated. He felt like one of those surfers who row
with their arms against the tide to get out among the waves, but
don't manage to go far enough out to sea. The waves of change
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