Comments on: Peacocks, Power & Prosperity http://lorettalovehuffblog.com/2009/03/peacocks-power-prosperity/ Loretta Love Huff, The Dream Leader for Business: People and teams EXCEEDING their dreams! Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Yomi Owoyem http://lorettalovehuffblog.com/2009/03/peacocks-power-prosperity/comment-page-1/#comment-5116 Yomi Owoyem Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:51:54 +0000 http://lorettalovehuffblog.com/?p=281#comment-5116 I love Ms. Huff analogy of male mating peacock. The mail bird is neither ashamed nor afraid to “strut” his stuff. Western culture is based on this model, in other words, blow your trumpet. For those of us who come from culture, where self promotion is frowned upon or even consider a taboo, adapting to the western way of self promotion is very hard to do. One does not talk of one’s talent and or good works, others do that for you. Many of us, from the culture I grew up in, usually fail woefully at job interviews, not because we lack the expertise nor do not possess required skills for these jobs. We fail mostly because we find it hard to self promote. Some of us are slow to adapt, many more fail to neither adapt nor adopt western ways of doing things. Hence are trapped in lower jobs. Even when we have the abilities, experience, education and know how to be on top. Again on a personal note and shared from talking to friends from the same culture, we found it hard to move up the “ladder” in our places of employment. It would be nice if Ms. Huff can tailor her Peacocks, Power & Prosperity to individuals from different cultures. , teach them to recognize how this culture operates and how adapting will enhance their success in their profession and or places of employment. Great job, love it and I will start strutting like the male peacock. Yomi I love Ms. Huff analogy of male mating peacock. The mail bird is neither ashamed nor afraid to “strut” his stuff. Western culture is based on this model, in other words, blow your trumpet. For those of us who come from culture, where self promotion is frowned upon or even consider a taboo, adapting to the western way of self promotion is very hard to do. One does not talk of one’s talent and or good works, others do that for you.

Many of us, from the culture I grew up in, usually fail woefully at job interviews, not because we lack the expertise nor do not possess required skills for these jobs. We fail mostly because we find it hard to self promote. Some of us are slow to adapt, many more fail to neither adapt nor adopt western ways of doing things. Hence are trapped in lower jobs. Even when we have the abilities, experience, education and know how to be on top.

Again on a personal note and shared from talking to friends from the same culture, we found it hard to move up the “ladder” in our places of employment.

It would be nice if Ms. Huff can tailor her Peacocks, Power & Prosperity to individuals from different cultures. , teach them to recognize how this culture operates and how adapting will enhance their success in their profession and or places of employment.

Great job, love it and I will start strutting like the male peacock.
Yomi

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