LEADERSHIP – 13
What Makes Us Follow?
Sir George Alleyne
REGIONAL – 04
Movement
of Our
People
Dr Ralph
Gonsalves
HEALTH – 08
Tipping the Scales
The Obese Trini
HEALTH – 12
ADifferent
Kind of
Nursing
Palliative Care
“…he spent as much time speaking about life and living
in personal interaction as he spent in discussing cricket. Such was the rapport and respect that there was ready compliance
with his instructions on and off the field, because one did not wish to disappoint the skipper. He removed much of the almost natural island jealousies born of ignorance by having
players from different islands room together. Apparently he was not a great fan of large team meetings. He clearly did not know only cricket and therefore genuinely knew cricket.
“But perhaps the characteristic which for me identifies and epitomizes the essence of Worrell’s claim to iconic status as a leader is demonstration of the classical Pygmalion effect.
If I expect you to do well and let you know it, then that brings out some special reserve of resolve and talent.”
UWI Chancellor, Sir George Alleyne
defines leadership and proffers the
late
Sir Frank Worrell
as a model.
The
Worrell
Model
