[Vnbiz] Future Leaders for Vietnam

[Binh, Vu The]

Dear Thu Huong et CACC,

Talking about this issue is interesting but complicated, especially for 
Vietnamese condition, I think.

You are true that there have been not many things tought in the schools/uni 
about so-called leaderships theorically.

But in fact, as far as I understood, there are chances for school boys or 
girls to be the leader in the class, and they are also trained somehow by 
the teachers. When you were kid in Vietnam, do you remember who was the 
monitor ("lớp trưởng")? :-)

And when youngsters go to the university, there are posts for leaderships 
such as "lớp trưởng", "bí thư Đoàn" (secretary for Youth Union :-). But as 
far as I remember then, almost no one (or best guys) would want to get that 
post. Do you know why? ;)

Comparision with other countries is fine. But we have more than 80 millions 
peopl, thousands of organisations, thousands of companies. There are many 
not only managers, but leaders around our life in Vietnam. Many of them are 
very good, and youngsters can learn much from them.

Anyway, when you talk about training the leaders, our new PM is a very good 
example ;-) the system seems to be quite good in training leaders since they 
are very young ;-)  huh?

That's just 1,000 dong contribution,

Have a nice day CACC,

Binh.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thu Huong" <meocon24 at yahoo.com>
To: <vnbiz at vietlinks.net>
Sent: 20/07/2006 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Vnbiz] Future Leaders for Vietnam


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> [Vietnam Business Forum]
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> Dear anh Hoanh and CACC,
>
> Thank you for the many replies in this thread of
> discussion. I have not been really interested in
> politics and therefore my understanding in this field
> is rather limited. However, I do observe the
> interlinked relationship between all areas and the
> impact that a political party may have on, for
> example, education and the country's economy.
>
>>From my understanding through anh Hoanh's analysis, it
> seems that there is a price to pay for democracy.
> After all, there is nothing that is absolutely free
> and the price democracy ought to pay is inefficiency.
> When we have a group of ten people operating in a
> democratic manner, we need to ask for opinions from
> all ten and decide according to the majority. For a
> company operating in a competitive market, I do not
> think that democracy is the way to go. Decisions in a
> company need to be centralized, or else the company
> would be fraught with inefficiency & slow response
> especially to the fast-changing & hugely competitive
> market.
>
> I raised the discussion of future leaders for Vietnam
> with some intentions in mind. Of course, I do know
> that there are Vietnamese youths scattered around the
> world wanting to make a difference and wanting to
> contribute to the development of Vietnam. The same
> goes for countries such as China and India. In fact,
> the influx of expatriates back into their home
> countries (China, India) has been one of the main
> driving forces for the phenomenal economic growth of
> China and India over the recent past years. In Silicon
> Valley for example, the majority of the most
> successful IT entrepreneurs are actually ethnic
> Chinese or Indian. Hence, the image of China/India as
> the future economic powers has been raised profoundly
> on the world stage.
>
> With that in mind, my particular concern lies with
> leadership education for the youths in Vietnam, for
> those who do not have the chance to go overseas. There
> might be activities all over our nation to educate
> these qualities. However, we do not have structural
> leadership education. With my eight-year experience in
> Singapore, the future leaders are groomed and
> recognized at a very young age. In secondary schools,
> there are extra-cirricular activities whereby students
> are trained and given the chance to lead. The
> Singapore government has spent a great deal of money
> and efforts in providing leadership education &
> opportunities for the brightest in the country to
> groom them for future economic, political & social
> leadership posts.
>
> I observe the lack of such opportunities in Vietnam.
> Or perhaps I have not attended University in Vietnam
> to fully understand the changes that are happening in
> our country. Please enlighten me in this area. What I
> hope to see are more systematic ways & more investment
> into education, especially leadership education to
> produce the leaders for tomorrow.
>
> These are my thoughts, somewhat scattered, amidst a
> group discussion for my research report in this
> program. There are certain issues I find of strong
> interests to me. And I hope the discussion in CACC
> will be more lively, for only with exchange of ideas
> and discussion can we find lights to problems that we
> are concerned about.
>
> Thank you for sharing, and have a great day!
>
> Warmest,
>
> Thu Huong
>
> --- Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> [Vietnam Business Forum]
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>> Dear CACC,
>>
>> There is this thought about this leadership issue I
>> would like to
>> share with everyone.  This is directly related to
>> the issues of
>> organizational internal discipline, treatment toward
>> citizens, and
>> democracy.
>>
>> (Well, I've been thinking hard about this subject,
>> and ideas keep
>> coming out.  My Gosh, every time you get a profound
>> question, your
>> poor miserable brain won't stop working.  I need
>> some Aspirin, for
>> God's sake!  In the period of a month, two ladies
>> threw out two
>> incredible questions that make us (at least, me)
>> think and think and
>> think non-stop.  The first one was from Le Thuy (How
>> to teach
>> morality?) and this one is from Thu Huong (Where do
>> future Vietnamese
>> leaders come from?). Incredible!
>>
>> Anyway, each organization, for it to be strong, has
>> to have strong
>> internal discipline.  So each organization usually
>> has its own
>> hierarchy of authority; orders from the top have to
>> be followed by
>> people below, otherwise the organization will weaken
>> and collapse.
>> The point here is:  There is not much democracy in
>> any organization.
>> This is true in a soccer team, a company or a
>> political party.  The
>> NATURE of organization is ANTI-DEMOCRATIC.
>>
>> In a free-market economy or a political democracy,
>> there is
>> competition among many organizations (among
>> companies in an economy,
>> or among political parties in a country).  The
>> competition among these
>> anti-democratic organizations operates as a natural
>> check against the
>> anti-democratic tendency of organizations, and
>> forces these
>> organizations to act democratically to the public
>> outside the
>> organization (i.e., acting nicely and politely to
>> consumers/citizens).
>>  Thus, COMPETITION is really the essence of market
>> economy (for
>> economics) and democracy (for political science).
>>
>> What happens in a one-company or one-party system is
>> that we have this
>> company/party which is anti-democratic as a natural
>> matter (as
>> discussed above), but then there is no competition
>> from other
>> companies/parties to operate as a check against its
>> anti-democratic
>> organizational behavior.  So the internal
>> anti-democratic behavior of
>> the company/party simply flows out into the public
>> and becomes
>> anti-democratic behavior toward the public too.
>>
>> So when we have a monopoly (i.e., no competition),
>> the economic
>> monopolist bosses its consumers around (Consumers
>> are beggars and no
>> kings), and political monopolist acts arrogantly and
>> abusively toward
>> its citizens.
>>
>> So the leaders' arrogance is the natural result of
>> the system that
>> they build and maintain.  We will not be able to ask
>> leaders to be
>> humble; and leaders, at least most of them, won't be
>> able to act
>> humbly, unless we can reform the system to inject
>> competition into it.
>>
>> Have a great day!
>>
>> Hoanh
>>
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