Almost months or years never have time to attend seminars, just don’t have time to leave my work place for sake of datelines and never ending tasks.
Lately, Open Dynamics has approached with MATRADE (Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation) for business opportunities, with their helps to promote Joget the Malaysia made software. However, MRM (Majlis Rekabentuk Malaysia) an association funded by Government who organised this event together with MATRADE.
It was a 2 days seminar and workshop, many of the participants were from product design and industrial design, I think I was a rare one in this conference room. Well, there’ were 6 speakers from Korea. First day of Seminar has covered history of Korean Industry and the change of design, importantly Korean government has given a lot of supports to their local industrial and economy development, and somehow design has taken an extraordinary improvement and important role for Korean economy.
For example, famous brand such as Samsung, LG or car industry Hyundai etc have penetrated into global market with a major helps from Korean government. In other word, brand community was also funded by Korean government.
And, we were all fully agreed that Design was a key success in many differences industry. The ‘Magic’ is in the product but without good design, it will never reach the customer shore. Well, few important keynotes taken were ‘Function, Integrity, safety, universality, environment, continuity and identity’. They shared in terms of functionality, sustainable is key point to Glocal (Global to local, or local to global).
DesignSeoul (Aireys-collaborative-integrated-sustainable), to know more about Korean design, log on to Globalization of Korea Design (global.designdb.com) recently I realize Korea have a lot of great designers.
One of the interesting topics – “Ubiquitous! Digital Design” has caught my attention and the speaker was the CEO of Pentabreed (www.pentabreed.com) – Terry Park. He shared about Korean Mobile/communication tools, digital design and technology, and he did mention the growth of Internet has keep Korea in a fast mode and momentum that how their industry break through globalization whereby the change of product’s awareness.
Me and Terry Park, although he can’t speak well, but there was no barrier when designer meeting another great designer. Haha….
Here were the details of the speakers, and they are knowledgeable in design industry.
Junki Moon (CEO of M.I Design), Terry Park (CEOof Pentabreed) Deukju Kim (CEO of Dito – www.ditobrand.com) , Eunice Lee (Vice President of CDR Associates), Yongmihn Kim (Director of Continuum Korea)
(From left Terry Park, Deukju Kim, Translator)
A innovative gift from Kidp (Korea Institute of Design Promotion), it was a 4GB Thumb drive!!
2nd day of the leadership summit, one of the speech from John Ng who gave a fabulous speech on the title of “finishing race”. He played this movie “Cool Runnings” before he shown us the chart below…
This chart was designed by John Ng.
Building a great community, you are the GOD-centred Person which you need to have Character + Calling + Competence
Character (Integrity and morality)
Well, you have to be sensitively to GOD request and depend on what your ear custom to hear.
Calling
Finding you own voice, and rediscover you own passion. Be the best for GOD.
Competence
You have to spend time develop competence.
Now, let’s look at the grey bubble:
What is Moralist? Means got character but no callings & no competence
What is Demogugue? Someone only got calling and no competence and character
What is Technocrat? Competence but no calling and no moralist (TGIF member)
Or, what if the leader only has calling and competence?
Calling + Competence = Destructive Achiever, this type of people who destroy people. For instance, people from Wall Street who has no Character, self-serving and destroy the world economy.
Competence + Character = Sloopy under Achiever, less passion & calling.
Calling + Character = Charismatic “Gung Ho”; Means he/she excited and want to do everything but cannot deliver coz no competence.
In another word, a person who has Demogogue, Technocrat and Moralist. He/she able to complete the race while consistent focus on the prize.
Leadership is not about yourself but people. Because everything you learn and earn in this world, will go into “Box” but invest in something greater than you.
I was attending this Leadership conference organized by CMC (Chinese Methodist Church) at Port Dickson from 27-28 Feb. It called “ETLS” Eagles Team Leadership summit, well it is a gathering where pastors and lay leaders learn biblically informed principles, integrating church/marketplace perspectives to address current leadership challenges.
CMC invited this group from Eagles Leadership Institute (www.leadership.org.sg) with fabulous speakers, there was Michael Tan, Lim Peng Soon and John Ng (www.meta.som.sg). Although it’s just a day half of conference, I had gained a lot of knowledge and I believe 400 of the attendants had the wonderful class that how to be a leader in church or workspace.
What trigger me during the conference? Let me share with that.
Meaning of Leaders or who is qualified to be a leader?
L.E.A.D.E.R.S... each alphabet has its own meaning.
L- Long-term record of effectiveness
E- Egos surrendered to Christ
A- Approachable and accessible
D- Devotion to spouse and family, yes, support from family is important
E- Excellence in service & work
R- Reflection of Godly Character
S- Sharing with others
Although your position as a manager, supervisor, etc. gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives in the organization, this power does not make you a leader, it simply makes you the boss. Leadership differs in that it makes the followers want to achieve high goals, rather than simply bossing people around.
To be a good leader with 8 Characters or it called 8P.
1) Purity of Hear (Mind and hands)
2) Posture of Servant hood (Pride)
3) Perseverance (Follow-through)
4) Predictability (Integrity)
5) Promise-keeping (Confidence)
6) Partnership (Faithfulness)
7) Prayer (Spirituality)
8) Passion for Christ (Sincerity)
Well, when a person is deciding if she respects you as a leader, she does not think about your attributes, rather, she observes what you do so that she can know who you really are. She uses this observation to tell if you are an honorable and trusted leader or a self-serving person who misuses authority to look good and get promoted. Self-serving leaders are not as effective because their employees only obey them, not follow them.
And remember, good followers manage themselves well, committed to the organization and build their competence & focus, courageous, honest and credible. Or I put the terms in this way…
Followership = Partnership = Leadership = Relationship
Coz leadership is everyone’s business.
