Thriving in Chaos and Following the Money ....

Like a John Woo movie where the doves fly in slow motions prior to a gun battle, it's like that talking to my father now.

Conversations with him are like golden surreal moments in time and I'd like to write about these conversations as if were a moment prior to finding the right shot or decisive moment.

When he's telling his story (specially stories about business), there's a certain mathematical precision and logic to both his story and the fluidity of his thought process.

It's amazing. I wish I had even some of in me by genetics or osmosis.

"Chaos", my Dad smiles and mentions "enable one to have an opening."

Most of his wins came at moments of chaos and difficulty which makes sense.

He sat at the Hilton and spoke to this young VP from Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts (KKR). It was chaos at that time. Somehow, he planted a seed of an idea which enabled him to have another person buy a brand and he by the same token acquire the same brand for a discount

for our home country.

"Follow the money", he tells me.

J, will have to ask you to tell him to re-tell the story to us again. It's amazing.

It's classic and brilliant -- perfectly executed, timed and geez.

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Back to photography on the next blog.. for now just logging this story for my own memory and this post for you J.