...management of compromises

...represented VC to the ASAIHL board meeting yesterday...10 members from 8 ASEAN countries and the President of Keuka College NY attended the meeting...it was a short but quite a heated meeting which lasted about an hour...anyway i always like lively meeting...they're all either university rectors or vice chancellors or presidents...except me Dean of Graduate School...and the only one without grey hair...yet...ha3...one group would like to make changes to the association charter but another group opposed to the idea...bla bla bla hmm not an easy discussion as they're all leaders with own ego...then remember what Leo Moggie said "politic is about the management of compromises"...the most vocal member (despite struggling with his English) was the President of Vietnam National University...he later became a good friend of mine who called me chicken... but not a tame one tho ha3...he thought i'm in the mid 30's...