RB - Reputation Bankrupt

I want to talk about this topic simply because of its importance for oneself to be successful and respected in any organisation or his/her career.

Reputation is one of the aspects that widely discuss in the Confucian studies that best known in Mandarin language as "Xin"(信)or Trust

If you do not have the "xin" of the people around you, it is as good as you are RB. Whatever you talk are nonsense, meaningless and people agree with you simply because people scared of you and your power.

Every day they curse and swear behind you. They imagine bad things will happened to you. You have more enemies and friends. They will try their best to discredit you or if you have did a good deed, they will try to forget you.

A very typical example of RB is always make " empty promise ". It is very important that you deliver your promise when you promise it.

Just imagine when an insurance company failed to pay or make compensation to the insured upon happening of an agreed event. The insurance company will soon go bankrupt as most of the other insured will sooner withdraw their policies upon knowing the news simply because they lost faith on the insurance company.

Hence before you make any promise, always think of the way to deliver first. Otherwise, you will very soon become RB

To be continue..

DSC

DSC stands for Double Standard Country

Just imagine a school or a company having 2 sets of rules governing the entire organisation, what is the consequences of it ?

The country I am residing is practicing it more than 3 decades ago.

Just imagine that you are a foreigner, would you come and invest in this country ? Would you like to deal with this country ?

The answer is definately NO.

Just imagine you are an excellence student scoring flying colors in academy as well as co corriculum activities but the country would not admit you into the public varsities reason being there is no space for you there as the majority of the places was reserved to the "native" citizen whom are less qualify than you. How do you feel? And the sad part is that your father or mother are the "citizen" that contributed most to the country's revenue ; the income tax.

Just imagine when you stopped and issued summon by a policeman for not wearing a helmet when you are driving a motorcycle on one FRIDAY. Another muslim ( wearing songkok ) drive pass and having the same offence but the police didn't stop him. This is because, on Friday, any traffic offences by the muslim can be pardon simply because it is for the Friday prayer!

Other traffic offence that is pardonable by the police on Firday include; double/triple parking your car by the busy road side in the city centre

So, if you are trying to immigrate here; "my country", pls resonsider again as alot of people ( its own citizen ) already voting out their goverment by their legs (migrate to another country) in order to have "more" equal treatment. Forget about "Mxxxxsia"

孔子曰 Confucious Teaching (In Mandarin )

孔子曰：

仁爱就是要有恭，宽， 信， 敏， 惠。

恭敬，宽容，信任，敏锐，恩惠。

何谓仁爱 ：至少两个人的互动才会有仁爱。

何谓恭敬 : 对人的态度要恭敬。不要老绷着脸。

何谓宽容 ：对人要有宽容的心。不要计仇，不要斤斤计较。

何谓信任：让人对你信任，不要亏空。

何谓敏锐 ：做事要观察入微，对小小的变化都能够察觉。

何谓恩惠 ：要有感恩之心，不要过河抽板。忘恩负义。

The above teaching is a summary from Yu Dan's elaboration on confucious teaching which I think is very useful for our current and future generations.

Mahathirism a.k.a. Racism

Malaysia longest serving premier is one that I used to respect because of his policies and successes in governing the country.

However, my little respect to him ended few days ago when he commented that Malaysian Chinese had taken away the little resources that the Malays has and had resulted the country 's National Economic Policy - NEP (that aimed to achieved 30% Bumiputras equity by year 2000) gone down to the drain after more than 39 years of implementation.

I felt ashamed on him being the ex-premier of Malaysian and with his statement, I dare to conclude that he had misused Malaysian trust on him and I guess during his tenor as PM, he could have tried everything that could prevent the non malay from achieving their political/economy objectives.

Based on his thought, I conclude that whatever that exist in this country are belongs to the Malays and when the non Malays get something from this country, it was the sacrifices made by the malay.

For what I know, he has been always the champion of the Malay rights ever since he retired as PM. However, just be concious, how many malays are benefited from the so call NEP. Its only UMNO cronies benefited from NEP.

The malay stays the rural or suburb area doesn't benefited from NEP that suppose to distribute equally the wealth of this country amongst the Malaysian. In contrary, most of the wealth had gone into his cronies pocket.

Fortunately he had stepped down since 2001 before he could demonise the pity Malaysian. Its is lucky as well, as not all the Malays subscribe to his taught. The Malay are now be able to analyse and identify their own problems. They start to realised that what UMNO championed doesn't really benefits them for the past 39 years and they would rather opted for a polictical change rather than be with rotten UMNO/BN goverment.

UMNO is just a machinery used by the politicion to implement/achieve what they like and NEW is a shield for them that prevent them to get expose. They can mobilised the country's resources as they like in the name of NEP/Malay including giving out of APs to cronies (with the objective of enhacing bumiputra unvolvement in the auto trading industry), quotas for the admittance to public varsities, awarding of contracts to malay contractors, etc etc.

At last, those benefited from the NEP are a very small fraction of UMNO politicians/goons and those who suffer are still Malay themselves because naturally they are economically weak due to the nature of their thinking that always prefer to live in a moderate way.

Mahathir vision to create racial hatred tamosphere will not get his way as peoples already bored with his dirty tactics in playing racial cards; his divisive approach to weaken the political parties amongst the BN component parties had seen successful all this while but his evil mind in making this country a failure will not come true.

JUSTICE MY FOOT 2009

I remember there is a Hong Kong film starred by Stephen Chow by the name of JMF.

The storyline is something like if you have done something wrong or being accused to have done something wrong, and if you do not have connection with the government official, there will be no justice for you even though you are innocent.

At that time, Stephen is a lowest grade justice during the time and whilst disharging his duties, he came across a criminal case where a son of one top government official negligently killed somebody else and he was bribed to cover the incidents. He went through various obstacle to overcome the challenges in order to uphold the justice for the victim as well as the families.

Stephen was lucky as he managed to make use of the emperor's influence to upheld the justice for peoples.

However, this will not happen in the real world now. Take the recent case of Teoh Beng Hock as example.

The police is covering up for the MACC, they try to let MACC have more time to destroy their evidence. They only asked for the MACC cctv recording in their office 3 days after the incidents.

In this case, it is clearly MACC should have bear their part of responsibility as they are the last person to have seen TBH after the cruel questioning session that end in the mid night.

I do not think MACC is so kind to have allowed a witness to rest or "sleep" at the premises especially after that wee hours.

I don't think TBH also wanted to stay for even a second longer in that office no matter how tired he is.

What is clear in this context is that there is a hidden hands behind this case. The government is trying to fabricate or destroy the bad evidence as a damage control measure. This is to minimise the effect on Najib's 1Malaysia plans as well as to curtail any drop in Najib's approval rating.

At the end of the days, TBH was concluded as jumping from the MACC building as he might be classified a unable to take pressure after long hours questioning by the MACC morons. No body should have to responsible for his dead as there is no foul play found in the evidence. MACC should have take more precautionary actions to prevent witnesses for doing the same thing and business as usual.

Nobody will be prosecuted and after a while people will forget the whole incidents... This is Justice , your opinion pls..

"JOKES" of the day

An established Japanese firm would like to improve its image and decided to undertake a corporate rebranding excercise.

To save cost, the CEO, who runs the company as if he own the company, decided to make use of the middle management staff by gathering them for a brainstorming session.

As the staffs is not good in that, after having a couple of sessions unable to come out with any idea but is conflicting with each others.

At last, the chairman decided to faced with the reality and draw a big "O" on a paper. To him, the Big "O" is zero idea.

Intended to tells the boss that they achieved nothing by presenting the "O", the boss surprisingly concur the "O" idea before the chairman says anything.

WHY ?

This is what the boss want and expected, Bacause, what the boss main agenda is to adopt what ever idea presented by the brainstorming group and therefore company would have some expenditure.

With that idea, the boss approaches an advertising firm to improvise the "O" idea and at the end of the day the firm pay the advertising firm USD 300K for their service.

The new corporate branding idea is then launch within the group of companies and distributions of a new leaflets / brochures...

Thats it.

Traits of good CEO

Today I read an article about CEO as well and amongst the traits of good CEO are :-

Desire and energy

A successful CEO must have the desire or will to achieve, the energy, and the intellect.

“The desire to achieve actually describes the passion in any good leader,”

“The second, energy, describes his lasting capability. Too many so-called leaders fail because they give up too easily.

“The third — intellect — has very little to do with a university degree. Some of our best entrepreneurial forefathers did not have the opportunity to go to university, but have succeeded because they are very intelligent people.”

Makes tough calls

The CEO must dare to make decisions, especially the hard ones, whether they concern layoffs or pay cuts, or other difficult strategic decisions.

When making the tough calls, he must also have the ability to communicate his decision appropriately.

“Compassion isn't often a term associated with the most successful global CEOs, and they are paid to make the right commercial decisions for the welfare of the organisation and its shareholders,” said Guy Day, managing director at recruitment agency Ambition.

“That said, CEOs don't always need to be ruthless, and the manner in which difficult decisions are communicated, particularly around job cuts, can make a real difference.”

Tim Hird, managing director of human resource consultancy Robert Half International, said that not only do CEOs need to communicate, but they also need to do so consistently and sincerely.

Integrity

Leader with integrity are consistent, willing to trust others, and care about their employees' well-being.

These leaders are honest and transparent in a way that allows others to understand not only their decisions, but also the reasoning behind them.

Moreover, when they make big decisions, they hold themselves accountable for them, said Leon Perera, group managing director of Spire Research and Consultancy.

Gina McLellan, Singapore country manager of search firm Hudson, said a CEO should commit to “conducting himself with the highest standards of ethics and integrity which will inspire people's confidence and trust”.

Bill George, retired CEO of medical technologies provider Medtronic, once termed traits such as integrity and character “authentic leadership”.

Simply put, this is the quiet kind of charisma that puts a sense of values and purpose ahead of magazine covers.

Vision and strategy

The CEO must have a dream, a mission, a strategic intent, a vision and he must be able to articulate that vision.

“In the political sphere, (former United States presidents) John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and our very own Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew were masters of the art of communication,” Tan said.

Day said many CEOs are focused on short-term profitability and cash flow, both of which are critical.

But a successful CEO, he added, also needs to communicate to the organisation that there is a “clear plan” to where the business is headed, and despite the challenges in the economy, that path is broadly being followed.

"See E Oh"

Along my 13 years employment in my company, I have made some observation and conclusion about a good leadership in an organisation.

To summarise it, a good leader shouldn't have the following traits:-

a) Selfish
b) Self centred
c) Calculative
d) Autocratic
e) Lack of self confidence
f) Power Crazy
g) Indecisive
h) I can but You can't attitude
i) "You can't better than me"

A good leader must not let the staffs to ask the the following question and must have the answers in advance instead :-

a) When and where is my increment/bonus payment
b) When is the promotion list going to come out.
c) When can I get the my new company car when the car is due for change for almost a year ago.
d) Why is that Mr. So and So resigned some time ago can resumed the same position when he returned and contribute nothing to the company and even failed in the company special/pilot project.
f) Why did an incompetence overseas company could get a lucrative multi millions project in the company and we all have to be at the mercy of them.

The D-day for the Dwi- Menteri Besar

Tomorrow will be the D-day for Nizar and Zambry as the Court of Appeal will decide who will be the menteri besar of Perak. Who is the legitimate one.

These are the wishlist of a few stake holders :-

i) BN supporter - Zambry Win - more contract for the cronies

ii) PR Supporters- Nizar Win

iii) General Public - Nizar Win- Becasue they like their face so much, Tok Jangut

iv) The three frogs ( who jumped ship to become independent ) - Zambry Win - can keep their seats and drive Camry ( oh nope , now Zambry want Perdana, but he use Harrier )

v) Najib - Zambry win - so that he can save his face, his face is red enough.

vi) Gerakan - Nizar win ( say in their heart) - busy drafting KPI = Nonsense

vii) MCA - Dato OTK - No comments (He suddently became speechless nowadays - busy finding new CSL sex tape to topple him out or cracking head with Lee Hwa Beng why the PKFZ report cannot make public, or busy find way to persuade JPA head on the appeal of the TOP students)

viii) MIC - Semi Value - Kita belum tahu lagi apa boleh terjadi, mungkin kita tunggu Najib punya instruction sebelum buka mulut. Oops Jambatan Kepong retak lagi kah ?

ix) PPP - Pulangkan Taiping saya baru saya mahu komen, kalau tidak semua tak usah bincang !

x) TDM - Apanama.....Zambry Win - so that he can do more blogging ( I notice his blogs receive lesser comment nowadays )

To be continue.... let see what happen next.... Federal Court is preparing....

The May 13

Today is the 4oth anniversary of the May 13 incident that haunted the Malaysian especially the non malay where ethnic clash happened.

I was not even born that time but I heard quite a number of story telling about this incident.

"There was an election just concluded in prior day and the non malay dominance party won the race. They rallied in the street of KL to celebrate their victory and during the rally, there is a clash with another party that loss in the election that was malay dominance"

Malaysian history never taught about that incident and what I have heard is true or not is also in doubt.

However, I notice that for 40 years, Malaysian tried to avoid this issue as it is a "Black Mark" in our history.

I understand that it was due to the May 13 incidents, NEP was introduced by the then Tun Abdul Razak and it implemented until today.

I wonder what is the co-relation between NEP and May 13 as our socio-economy structure remained the same. Those rich one become richer and the poor one become poorer regardless of the ethnic. Those who benefited is the one close to the politician.

Malaysian should stand up and fight for the "true equality" rather than ethnic discrimination. Poor malaysian should be given assistance and the government should distribute equaly all the wealth of Malaysia to the poor. Not all Malay are poor and not all non malay are rich. However, the "small Napolean" in the government administration treat the non malay the different way.

To be continue....