[Vnbiz] [Leadership] Focusing on your positives [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
QuangAnh.Nguyen at dfat.gov.au
QuangAnh.Nguyen at dfat.gov.au
Sun Oct 28 19:45:53 PDT 2007
Dear CACC
We saw the discussion on planning and implementation in several places and
times, from a forum to a lovely "pavement" tea shop in Hanoi. Can I make a
comment on just one point?
I heard that in those discussions, "Vietnam was suffered from wars in the
past" was a lovely phrase. I also heard some people think in a different
way. The war has been actually far away for 32 years. In a time comparison,
we are in the age of a post-war Japan in the 80s, when their Walkman and
Honda Custom bike were "conquering" some parts of the world. Or in a less
developed level, Singapore in the 90s, also after 30 years of their
separation from Malaysia. It appears that we are not in an appropriate
position of saying: we have just standing up from the ruined cities
anymore...
The war may be seen here and there, especially in our heart (our family
lost my father's elder brother in a battle in Long An 37 years ago). But I
support the idea that young generation should try their best for the next
30 years of our country (sorry, it's not my words, it's the words of Ly
Hien Long, current Singaporean PM). Where would be our position by then?
Reading a relevant story, I shared the worry with HCMC people, who suffered
the worst flood in last 5 decades. As I am not a planner, neither a
technician, I am not sure who should take the main responsible for this
disaster, nature or human...?
Have a good weekend!
Regards
QA
Thu Huong Nguyen
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[ Vietnam Business Forum ]
Dear Anh Tuan,
You are right that VN's weaknesses are in the planning stage. I reckon the
planning stage for many of the projects in Vietnam is not prudent enough,
or I can say the planners didnt see far enough in the future so we may do a
great project and ruin it some year later due to a better alternative.
But don't forget Vietnam was suffered from wars in the past, which it took
long time for the whole country to recover. Therefore, what we do for our
cities now is basically in parts. I think we're lack of overall or macro -
view in planning for the development of cities.
But how we can do it? It is difficult, needing time & costly too. I can't
give any suggestion.
Have a good week :)
Huong
Dr Hoang <hoang at fpt.vn> wrote:[ Vietnam Business Forum ]
Dear CACE,
I think we don't lack resources, in comparision to other countries say
Singapore, we have much more, but we far behind them.
I have visited some Vietnamese ports or hospitals, and I do the same in
Singapre, the gap is such so big, what we dont have in Vietnam is
the Organization Skills, how to put things well in order.
Our ability to plan and execute what have been planed is oviously not so
strong.
As a normal Vietnamese person, I will keep asking mysefl, how other
countries could plan their cities so well, is there any CACE who could
share some of your thoughts here?
e.g. which Universities produced lots of quality planners? or which
companies have great planners like that?
Cheers,
Tuan
----- Original Message -----
From: Tran Dinh Hoanh
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Vnbiz] [Leadership] Focusing on your positives
[ Vietnam Business Forum ]
Dear sis. Thu Huong & CACC,
Thanks for the note, Thu Huong.
Thu Huong asks: "In case of Vietnam, what do you think that we have, we
think positively in that and we engage in activity most effectively?"
"What we have" is easy. Just turn around a look. We have beautiful
beaches running the length of the nation; we have beautiful mountains
and highlands; we have a good mix of religions--Buddhism, Catholicism,
Protestantism, Cao Dao, Hoa Hai, etc. with attractive churches and
temples; we have a long history with many historical landmarks (Ho Guom,
Quoc Tu Giam, Den Hung, Lang Ong, etc.); we have many ethnic groups with
different cultures, clothes, houses; we have good food -- Vietnamese
cooking is very high on the world's chart (many years ago a food critic of
The New York Times rated Vietnamese food 4th in the world, after
French, Chinese and Italian).
All these are very good for tourism. We can focus on these things to
develop tourism--i.e., making it easier for tourists to come in;
organizing "tourist information centers" in each city to pass out info to
tourists; helping the hospitality industry (restaurants, hotels, tour
companies) do their work with more coordination, discipline and quality;
making the streets more friendly to tourists (like public rest rooms and
police); fighting the crime-ridden industries so that they don't scare
tourists off--sex and drugs; helping religions and cultural
organizations to grow (so that they will build big and attractive
temples. Beautiful temples attract tourists); helping cultural
organizations to bring in visitors -- Zen is now a worldwide
attraction. If Zen centers are open in Vietnam for foreigners, many
will come to learn Zen. Vietnam is a martial arts country--why
not using martial arts to attract tourists and students (Thailand uses
its martial arts presentation in performance centers). Of course, the
history or US-VN war is good education for tourists; so are war-related
historical landmarks.
We have lots of things very attractive to tourists. All we need to do
is a little planning to make them FEEL attractive, and stay away from
pushing for crime-ridden industries -- sex, casinos,nightclub. Good,
clean dancing clubs are good for tourism. But clubs that thrive on sex,
drugs and overdosed booze are bad for tourism, because they generate so
many criminals on the streets.
All we need is putting more brain power into tourism, not necessarily
more money.
The above is a quick example on tourism. Another example is that we
have an extremely young and highly literate population. This is an
incredibly strong asset, because many countries in the West are becoming
too old, with more old people than young people. In these countries,
too few young people have to work to feed many retirees. Vietnam can
focus on building this young population for the world market--focus on
English, Internet, IT skills, communication skills, analytical and
critical thinking. Very soon this young population will stay in Vietnam
and do work (over the Internet) for domestic or multinational companies
serving customers in New York, Toronto, Paris or any other major city of
the world.
I can go on and on for another 200 pages but I won't have time to do
that. I hope that these two examples are sufficient to present the
idea. Thanks again, Thu Huong, for such a wonderful question.
Have a great day!
Hoanh
On 10/25/07, huong dang thu <hdangthu at gmail.com > wrote:
[ Vietnam Business Forum ]
Dear bro and sis,
Thanks anh Hoanh, your explanation is very persuasive and deep. I am
especially fond of the idea of "perseverance to protect our
independence". Brilliant! But I have to use more time to absorb that idea.
BTW, to talk a bit about the '-ism'. In Vietnam, where the official
theory is Marxism, though now people recognize that we should be more
opened to learn the new ideas all around the world, most of my teachers
in school think this way: Marxism is not wrong at all. The wrong point here
is that people use the theory (the tool) in the wrong way.
Compare with Buddhism, Catholicism, we usually say that: the teaching
of Buddha or Jesus are not wrong. The only wrong here is the
application of human.
The thinking of "the theory is not wrong. It's wrong for human" make
us very persist in the old theory. Like my grandparents, who were the
soldiers in the war, have a strong belief in Marxism theory. Like my
grandparents, I think a part of nowadays Vietnamese really do believe!
So, the people can think that Marxism, Uncle Ho teaching and VCP
leading are our country's positives.
Anyway, based on what we have achieved today, I think we might go much
further. Thus, our positives may lie in other points. So, come back to
the question "what is our positive?', I feel excited about bro Hoanh's
message "Everything you have is your strength if (1) you think
positively that it is your strength and (2) you engage in activity where
your strength can be most effective". It's a very strong idea. Anyway, I'm
still so young. My experience is definitely limited. In case of Vietnam,
what do you think that we have, we think positively in that and we engage
in activity most effectively?
Just a question if bro and sis have interest in sharing...!
Thanks!
Wish my bro and sis wealth!
HeO
--
Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
Washington DC
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