[Vnbiz] Staying to be a leader - The leader in a changing environment

[Tram Dang]

Hello everyone,
Yes, interesting questions indeed Chi Thuy Lien.  I'd like to share my
thoughts on some of the questions.  There's a theme in all your questions:
change.  I think change is such an important element in our lives.  It's so
natural and so inevitable, but yet we sometimes forget to recognize it and
accept it.  The result is that we get left behind.  One of my favorite
quotes is:  "To survive is to adapt."  We must adapt, we must be constantly
changing and improving in order to thrive and prosper, or at the very least,
to survive.

*1.   How can we adapt with situation if  even our thinking haven't innovate
yet?*
Exactly.  How can we?  I don't think there's a way.  We have to upgrade our
thinking before we can transfer those thoughts into actions.
**
 *2.   And, how can we know whether the innovation happened in my mind or
not?*
I like this question the most.  I think it's the most important question;
unfortunately, I don't know how to answer it.  I'd be very interested to
read how others respond to this question.

 *3.  I wonder if the role of the leader in any orgazination in
change-environtment has any difference from one of the past. *
Do you mean in a "changing-environment"?  As in an environment that's
constantly evolving and changing?
 **
*5  Besides, how can we predict when the change is needed?*
I think change is needed when we find that what we're doing is no longer
effective, what we're doing is no longer giving us the desired results.
When the needs are not met, then that's a hint that there's something wrong
in the process, in the system, and that's when we should consider
implementing changes/improvements.

Happy Friday everyone!  Looking forward to reading everyone's responses!
Tram







On 4/20/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> Dear CACC,
>
> Several days ago, sis. Thuy Lien posted a gereeting message and in it she
> posed some very profound questions that I think we need to thining about
> them very sisrously.
>
> I would like to post some parts of her message here and highlight and
> number her questions to give them proper emphasis.  These are extremely
> challenging qeustions.  Thank you, sister.  (My God, I am so amazed at the
> quality of the college generation of our forum).  Here is the excerpt of
> Thuy Lien's message:
>
> "In the recent day,I've read a book whose tittle is "rethinking the
> future".I'm impressed in the conception that everything's changing fast and
> faster.And so,every type of the traditional thinking that we're familiar
> with in 20 th century isn't right anymore.I feel a real uncertain in my
> life which is very different from the past which is just 5 years ago.That's
> a world we're living.The more changes there are,the more flexible we
> are.That's the truth we all know.But,
>
> *1.   How can we adapt with situation if  even our thinking haven't
> innovate yet?*
>




> *2.   And, how can we know whether the innovation happened in my mind or
> not?*
>
>    I'm interested in the leadership.Maybe,never before the word
> "leadership" has been discussed so many times like today.I find a good
> alert that the Vietnamese traditional thinking  has been changed.Go back
> the past, for example 5 years ago,we were embrassed when standing up to
> present ourselves for the monitor of our class.Frankly,that's happening in
> my university.What I want to mention is
>
> *3.  I wonder if the role of the leader in any orgazination in
> change-environtment has any difference from one of the past. *
>
> We mentioned a lot about changes which's happening surely and even
> happening so fast.
>
> *4.  The book that I mentioned discussed an idea that the role of a modern
> leader is to make a change-waiting environment(I'm not sure about my use of
> word). But, how to build up it? *
>
> *5  Besides, how can we predict when the change is needed? *Changes are
> usually difficult with any one because it means many visible uncertain
> despite of many invisible advantages which a few people can realize. "
>
> Those are very deep deep deep questions.  Let us chip in to answer them.
>
> Have a great day1
>
> Hoanh
>
>
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Attorney of Law
> Washington DC
>
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