[Vnbiz] Leadership -- What are you looking for in your leader?

[Hien Nguyen]

Dear CACE,

It's entertaining to see how social theories can be condensed into one or
two sentences. Thanks anh Hoanh.

I'd like to volunteer three core elements; but before I list them out, I
explain the way to build up the concepts.

>From a mathematical perspective,  three "core" elements should be
distinctive, and complement others to make other elements, namely three
vectors. If we rotate all three vectors by few degrees, they will be another
three "core" elements.

I select:

LOVE
WISDOM
and TOUGHNESS

as core elements.

Have a great day,
Hien

On 7/18/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> Dear CACC,
>
> Thanks chi Tea for the wonderful short list and brothers Andi & Brother
> Thien for the critical look at Tea's response.  While waiting for more short
> lists to come, I'd like to make a quick comment on brothers Andi's and
> Thien's responses, because the wonderful analytical questions from them have
> the potential to lead us into a great confusion if we don't try to clear the
> air as fast as we can.
>
> Anh Andi question belongs to the "definition" category.  How do we define
> "wise" or "integrity"?  This question carries with it two other definition
> questions:  First, we need further concepts to define what "wise" or
> "integrity" really is.   And second, the problem of subjectivity:  "Wise" to
> this person may mean "unwise" to another person.
>
> These questions are superb philosophical questions.  And if you really act
> like a philosopoher, your chain of questions may go indefinitely--as soon as
> someone gives you an answer, you will be able to push for another sesires of
> questions (of the Socrates style).  Can't win :-)
>
> But let me say this:  There is a general agreement among us humans about
> many things, and there is disagreement only in borderline cases.  Say, in
> general, we all will agree that helping the poor is good, stealing is bad.
> But in some borderline cases, someone may say he is doing something (like
> lending money) to help the poor, while others may say that he
> actually steals from the poor (by charging a high interest rate on his
> loans).  These borderline cases may bring disagreement and dispute, and
> bring into question what we consider good or bad.  But they cannot stop us
> from agreeing worldwide that helping the poor is good and stealing is bad.
>
> Once I heard someone say: "Don't sit there and argue what 'good' really
> means.  Just go out and try to be good."  The author implies correctly
> that most of us has our own definition of "good" and most of the time our
> own definition agrees with other people's definitions around the world, even
> though there may be differences in borderline cases here and there.  The
> main things is that we don't sit until we can define everything absolutely
> clearly -- because we're NEVER able to define anything with absolute
> clarity; human language always has a great degree of vagueness in it.
>
> I believe that in general we all know what wisdom and integrity mean,
> although we may disagree where Mr. X is wise or not.
>
> On another point, anh Andi is correct that we will sacrify clarity for
> brevity.  That may be true, but as a matter of learning and practice, in
> almost every single subject we need to focus on one or two or three core
> elements ad the guiding principles for everything else.  Say, when I teach
> people to write, I tell them to focus on one thing: "Simplicity, simplicity,
> simplicity.  You have to be able to write about Einstein relativity theory
> in a way that a junior high school student will understand you. If you can't
> do that, you are not a good writer."  When I teach martial arts, I say:
> "Lots of things are important--strength, speed, flexibility, stamina,
> strategy.  But we want to focus on speed, because if you practice speed, you
> will build up your strength, your flexibility, your stamina, and your
> strategy.  It is useless to be strong if you cannot hit a fast guy."
>
> Christianity teaches a great many many things, but all of them come from
> the central idea of "lovling your neighbor as you love yourself" and "Do
> unto your neighbor what you would have done unto you."  Western Democracy
> encompasses many things, but they all flow from the concept that "everyone
> is born equal" and "living together with our differences."   Communism also
> teaches many things, but they all flow from the concept that "everyone is
> born equal, but the bad guys ( i.e., captialists and the like) have
> created and maintained inequality and must be destroyed."
>
> In any subject, there are great many things to learn, but for us not to
> get lost, there must one on or two things acting like the North Star. to act
> as a point of reference for everything else.  That is what I call "core
> element."
>
> In a separate message, I will attempt to "clear the air" on Brother
> Thien's message. Also, anh Shane's wonderful list has one or two points that
> I would love to analylize further, soon.
>
> In the meantime, it would be great with other brothers/sisters volunteer
> some core elements of leadership.
>
> Have a great day!
>
> Hoanh
>
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