GLOBIZATIONS - LEAP

THEME LINE: Need Gs PULL, just LEAPs.

We are living in an ever-changing competitive environment. We need to re-invent ourselves for global challenges and be responsive and be adaptable to the fast-changing world.

In today's rapid changing business world, business practices constanly evolve and change. How fast can we adapt in the market place ? Who are the big players and competitors ? Where are they located ? When are they going to launch the next product ? What is our next move if we want to go into another new market place ? All these questions are constantly in our minds. Singapore is just only a tiny red dot. We have a comparatively small population. Our market size is rather small. How then can we plug ourselves into the GLOBAL world . " GLOBALIZATION " IS THE NEW BUZZ WORLD.
Everybody wants to jump into the wagons of new oppourtunities. Frankly, we just need to change that Gs PULL in our mindset by just Doing the LEAPs.

1. Life Learnership and Leadership
2. Experiencial,Experimental, Excellence
3.Aspiring Accelerated Actions.
4.Pre-plans, Planned Programming
5.Strategics, Schynorise, Strategies.

1. Life Learnership and Leadership
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We must idnentify what we really want in the first place. The simple theories of " 4 WIVES, 1 HUSBAND " THEORY exploring these questions - Who, Where, When, What and How to GO about it. In anything we do, the most challenging barrier we face is the constant changes in plans and surrounding environment. Most of the times, we tend to lament, and complain. We gives lots of excuses for ourselves to be negative. We seem to be living in tghe negative G's Pull. We feel so pressurised in our mind. It is just like flying a fighter plane. Suddenly there is a change in the G's pull, and we feel our blood pressure pumping up.Well, in life, we must understand about

learnership and leadership. What do we mean by learnership ?
First we must learn to un-learn.Then, we re-learn to learn the BASIC. Often, we forget our BASIC. Learnership is not all about academic theories, but it is all about simple basics. Simple common sense applicable in our daily lives. The more we share our little success with others, the more we create new ideas in our learnership. Learnership also comes from Leadership training skills. Leadership often comes unnoticed. Leaders are not born, neither are they trained. It is their natural talents that they are aware of . From there, after taking notice,they learn to and take on leadership roles. Every learner has to do some form of a soul searching. We seek advice from
our Mentor, Coach or any Business Consultant.We alone cannot see our own self. We need another person (mirror) to see ourselves. Thusthree is so much to learn about life alone. The world changes especially in the new e-era. We are living in the e-world. Everything is interconnected - all through internet and electronic media. We are
connected electronically.

2. Experiential, Experimental, Excellence
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They say, experience is the best teacher. Often times, our past personal experience help us realise our mistakes and takes us through the learning phase. We are all fearful of making mistakes, we are afraid of our own doing. We are too protective of ourselves. We refuse to accept others viewpoint. We tend to be self-centred. From experience, we learn that by experiementing, we can uncover the real talents within ourselves. We can pursure futher with excellence, and move ahead with the experiential excellence that we have discovered. It is all about learnership through self-discovery.
Look at WALTER DISNEY. Who would have thought that DISNEY LAND is so popular everywhere today - in USA, JAPAN, HONGKONG and many parts of the world. He created a huge CARTOON empire through just one CARTOON icon-MICKEY MOUSE.Initially, everybody was very skeptical of his invention and even laugh at his work. Buthe persevered and continued relentlessly. The same scenario for HONDA - ' THE POWER OF DREAMS '. Honda was only a small medium entrperise dealing in the manufacture of Motorcycles in JAPAN. At that time, HONDA had decided to go into cars, while dealing with motorcycles. I could still remember back in 1970s, nobody want to buy HONDA made cars. People said it was made out of TIN cans. Today, if you really possess one, it reflects one's prestige and status. In the past 10 years, HONDA has again created History by creating ASIMO- a HONDA self -propel ROBOT. These two examples showed us how these pioneers became successful through

perseverance, risk-taking and experimentation. They did not re-invent the wheel. Instead they invent new products with innovation and experimentation.

3. Aspiring Accelerated Actions
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Most of us dare not have DREAMS. Instead, we tend to be followers or copycats. We want to make life easy by looking at other. Here in our local situation, whenever there is something new, you can see replicas within the same month, or within the same vicinity. It is sad to know that we are just followers. Just take a close look at the
COMMUNITY CENTRES. In Tampines alone, we have 5 different zones: The Tampines - NORTH,SOUTH,EAST,WEST AND EVEN CENTRATL. Can't we change and have new creative ideas of the names.Instead of Tampines Central, why not rename it as North Trendsetters. Or we can create names which reflect local flavour, yet
retaining the same affinity within the residents.
If you ask me about Buangkok MRT, the " WHITE ELEPHANTS " will always imprint into my mind, because they have made headlines. We must have creative aspiring ideas. With this, we can dare to challenge ourselves by taking on new innoviative project. The world renown Action Coach, ANTHONY ROBBINS ALWAYS has this to say : " If you want to unleast yourself, TAKE ACTION ". Most or half the time, we have our own dreams and passion, but we fail to take action. We often do analysis and by then, we breed paralysis. Even before we leap, we are already ' paralysed ' by our own action. SO the more action we take,the more we can be inspired to achieve our dreams. WISDOM often comes from experience by aspiring accelerated actions.

4. Pre-Plans, Planned Programming
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Whenever any plan fails, we tend to point finger at others. It is so easy to pick on others. If we have planned well, we certainly would not have failed. If we have pre-planned what we want to do ahead, we will be able to plan and do well. Thus, when we plan well, we will do well. The chance of succes is above 50 % . But our local "kiasu " mindset tells us that we must hit 100 %.

In the real world, there is no 100 % full proof success. From analysis, if we are able to plan well, and if we have already accomplished 50 % of the said plan. The next 50 % depends on several factors, such as the environmental changes, cultural differences, communications, mindset thinking and many other unanticipated issues. No matter how we plan, we need to do some soul-searching. When the AMERICANS first sent APOLLO 13 up to the moon, there were many trials and errors before they
succeed. The Planned course of actions was there. They just focus on the target, while the focus of the compass that they pointed was off angle. SO the key word here is FOCUS : Fast-forward, Observe, Concentrate, Utilise, Synchronise.

When ever we set new goals, we must pre- plan, planned and program ourselves just like a neurolingusitics program. We must have the ' worst case scenario ' in mind - that is, what happen if the worst comes to mind. At least we have tried and with that comes the positive mindset and motivation. We learn from our life's lesson. There is no right or wrong. Take for instance, SARS and, TSUNAMI - WHo knows when these calamities would take place. IF we can focus, we will definitely take careful steps to plan. At least, we are more mentally and physically aware of our past happening. SO even when the next calamity comes, we would be ever ready to face it. SO pre-planning is very important.

5. Strategies, Synchronise, Strategies
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There are many renounced strategies in doing business. In GLOBALISATION of the world today, with new technologies, things are evolving very fast. We need to do a lot of critical thinking, and apply new strategies in our daily lives. Nowadays, there are so many books, coaches and School of Thoughts. Using the past history,Military idas are not new in the present world. I always admire the Finaland company call NOKIA. This company is not in the Telecom business, yet they are the world leaders in the current handphone market. SO strategic ideas with strategic strategies must comes in handy. The Americans managed to win the Gulf War because they were able to apply their new technologies and synchronise them them well with strategic strategies. They plan it so well that they minimise the number of casualities. In fact, there are many golden oppourtunities in the world. With the upcoming of Dragon and Phoenix,there are massive opportunities. If only we can learn from our own strengths and weakness, then we can do the GLOBAL QUANTUM LEAP. GLOBALISATION is not all about technologies. It is about how we dare to dream, apply learhership and leadership skills, pre-plan with strategic strategies and plug into the world market. So are you ready to make that move ?

Article contributed by Edmund Chew, a E-actionpreneur , trained coach, and trainer with Astrans (s) Pte Ltd. He does conduct weekly seminars on business topics. He also conducts monthly group coaching programs on Entrepreneurship programs. Visit www.merlington.com/edmundchew/ or contact him on 96317749 or email edmundchew888@gmail.com / coachedmund@gmail.com