A sybmol of Aspiration and Inspiration

IPM 2006

posted by Gary Wong @ 6:38 AM 4 comments  

Looking beyond the obvious

While enjoying my wonderful Christmas holdidays, I sat down , looked very deeply into the organization and came up with a thought and an approach to create growth in the organization - Strategic Innovation.

It comes two seemingly paradoxical mindsets: expansive, visionary thinking that imaginatively explores long term possibilities; and pragmatic, down-to-earth implementation activities that lead to short-term measurable impact. It is a holistic, systematic approach focused on generating beyond incremental, breakthrough or discontinuous innovations while continuing to build our CORE.

The upcoming months must be very amazing, which create room for me to generate ideas and re-visit my life philosophy.

Gary

posted by Gary Wong @ 2:27 AM 3 comments  

A Worldview Phenomenon - Blogging

Friends across the globe, while you are twirling your thumbs, what are you going to do next? Riding? Smoking? Drinking? Chatting? Gardening? All are not the answers.

It's BLOGGING!

"Blog" is a virtual platform for over 10 million people stamping ground. It makes no sense you shut your eyes to this trend and have ever not been a "blog" owner.There is no denying some of you may hold "blogger" (here means people who blog very often) in contempt as they go with the stream and follow the fashion blindly. But, to me, it is not only carrying us off our feet, but most importantly, changing our habits when it comes to information acquisition. This is a worldwide phenomenon surprises even the most sophisticated professors.

Here I'd love to share how I was impressed by blog, a voguish online journal.

In the past, I used xanga basically to write down my anecdotes and share my thoughts with local buddies. But one day, by clicking links unconsciously, I was turn out to be connected to "Blogger" where there is an entry about the future roles of United Nations. Frankly, at that moment, I immediately knocked my eyes and am in a brown study and screamed "awesome!" This entry hooked me up with deals willy-nilly. It motivates me to start BLOGGING, no matter how busy I am.

Right, as an Arts undergraduate with translation major, I believe producing some compositions to share my impact and voice is what we should do although it has already been a very minimum commitment.Luckily, I found a community of Blogger called "nomadlife" especially for @ers around the world. You know, one thing which consumers much of my attention is I can re-visit my friends from Keyna to New Zealand and hear their voices. Only spending 30-min in this "Ocean of Knowledge", I caught a glimpse of issues related to philosophy, culture, history, science, politics, business and my beloved AIESEC. All of these make me thank for the scientific breakthrough creating this platform to connect all the great minds and for me to start my virtual world discovery with ease.

That's my little piece of my story. How about yours?

Dudes, if you are still wondering what the hell a "blog" is, I think connecting to my friends' links is the best resource to date on the blogosphere.

Gary 26/5/05

posted by Gary Wong @ 2:12 AM 14 comments  

Leadership in Hong Kong

Leadership in Hong Kong

When we are talking about the tenure of the next Chief Executive of HKSAR, Donald Tsang, our Acting Chief Executive, always acts as hearing the grass grow without making any formal announcement of his candidacy. Maybe it is a way to keep his nose clean.

Meanwhile, Democratic Party chairman Lee Wing-tat and Chim Pui-chung, from financial services sector, are determined to become candidates. To be honest, both of them, despite serving HK for a longer period of time, make no figure at all. It is nearly 0% for them to ring the bell. Of course, they are not dull to make a scene get no advantage; they simply believe their bids can exert pressure on Donald Tsang, so that he can do better. The current situation, without strong and widely recognized leadership, gives me a big hump! I always doubt whether it is British privilege to develop political and public administrative leaders. How come there were John Chan, Michael Sze, Yeung Kai Yin, Anson Chan, Jack So, etc. as AOs in the seventies? But now we have Stephen Lam, Arthur Li, Patrick Ho, etc. to be our top government officials? As BusinessWeek says, “Hong Kong. It’s back!” , I really hope it is not only pointing to the economic side, but also the political side.

How about AIESEC? Can AIESEC itself be a solution to the above? Athought time will bear out, allow me to pore through a while.

We are holding a mission to develop global leaders with passion, integrity, commitment and excellent drive. As a MCP in Hong Kong, my dream is to see all 89 MCPs in the world can start from themselves being role models and shell out the most to develop their new generations. @XP is a truly life-changing exchange that speaks volumes. But without excellent individual, who can proves his mettle; AIESEC will stand pat and never be par excellence in the world. Hence, everyone should lead by example, move, shake and rock!

Hope you all agree the brightest future is yet to come.

Gary 23/5/05

posted by Gary Wong @ 11:54 PM 4 comments