[Vnbiz] Are you proud of your organization? (formerly, Vietnam Airlines...)

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear chi Dzung & CACC,

Thanks for the thoughtful and eloquent message, Dzung.  You're right.  My
question is unclear and carries with it so many potential pitfalls that it
is not readable.   Let me rephrase it then.

I am really looking for something very simple and subjective.  I just want
to know if anyone is happy and proud of his/her company, agency,
organization?  That's all.  And if you are proud of your organization, say
it out loud.

Are you proud of your parents? If yes, then tell that to the world once in a
while.  Everyone will know that your parents are probably like most other
parents.  But they are exceptional in your heart, and we love to see that.

If you love your children and are proud of them them, we love to know that,
although your children are probably like most other children of the world.

If you are happy and proud of your job and your organization, we love to
hear about it.  It is just a nice thing to hear.

Why?

My response is:  Why not?  Why are we not talking about good news?

We need to create  a good-news culture, a culture of confidence, optimism
and happiness.

If you are proud and happy about your organization, say it out loud.

If you are not proud and happy about your organization, you can either do
something to improve it or find another job somewhere else.  Don't stay in
some job that you hate, at some place that you are not happy with.  Use your
life more meaningfully.

I hope that my question is clear by now.  For leaders of organizations
(project leader, department head, company director, etc...), if you are not
happy and proud about the organization you lead, then you shouldn't be
leading that organization.  Save the job for someone else.

If you are happy and proud about your organization, tell us so that we can
share in your enthusiasm.

(If you own your business and you are not so hot about talking about your
company with the enthusiasm of a guy head-over-hill in love, with everyone
whenever you get a chance, then your business will never be doing so
well.)

I am very happy and proud of VNBIZ.  Everyone knows about it.  I have talked
about it very often.  I want the world to know my sentiment.  I want
everyone to know about it.

What benefit is there if a guy tells the girl behind the closed door that he
loves her, but in the public he treats her with indifference or treats her
like a second-class citizen?

Public attitude counts.

We need to generate a positive culture, a culture of open praise, open
confidence, open optimism.

Of course, there are things that need to be addressed with tough criticism
at times.  But how about million other things worth praising?  Why aren't we
not praising?

I love to see the fire of enthusiasm in our heart.  It will light my fire
and the fire of many others.  That is how we fire up each other as a
generation, as a nation.

Have a great day, Dzung and all.

Hoanh


On 10/11/06, Dzung Nguyen <dnguyen.lse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My dear enthusiastic and passionate brother Hoanh ;-) (and CACC)
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> Please define what's clean first. I guess in business there must be always
> some tactics involved. Always someone is in more favour than the others (we
> are human and we live with biases), be it this supplier, this son of the
> director or this customer. Always something-which you never imagined you
> would do when you were very young- needs to be done. Especially when the
> border between right and wrong is so blur- blame the under-development
> world or the legal system, whatever work for your self-protectionism. Or you
> won't survive long, or you get beaten up.
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> You see, anh Hoanh, you're a lawyer, and you see the world a bit more
> ideally. I don't believe that a 'really clean' organization exist, or at
> least it's not necessarily needed to exist. Rather, the regulation and legal
> system and people  need to have a clear line/border of what's relatively
> clean, what's relatively acceptable. Exceed that level will be defined as
> 'dirty' (I'm thinking of the Competition Law, of the Enterprise Law, the
> Investment Law and all sorts). And it will be a long way before the line can
> be defined 'clearly' and we have a good punishment system in order to keep
> people stay away from the line.
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> Don't forget humans have a lot of sins and they at some point in their
> life will build up a self-protectionism system, so that all action will be
> justified in their own minds. Without noone reminding (such as punishment of
> the others, relatives etc), without a good education (so that people are
> more aware of their action, of the morality and how their action will affect
> lives of others) and good legal system, it's understandable why things have
> happened the way it had happened. (this' purely psychological reasoning, not
> a justification for anything, anyone though).
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> Just some thoughts, have a great day, you all,
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> Nguyễn Hồng Dung,
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> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Attorney of Law
> Washington DC
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