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Rule
#2: DECEPTION,
OBSCURITY AND ARROGANCE are the roads to economic downfall |
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These characters are present in all humans in our growing up process.
Today's international economics and in any industrial fields, these characters are not useful
and not beneficial. The Japanese in the 70's and Chinese in the
early 90s quickly taught themselves to change these practices and
since then, they have regained constant economic growth around the
world. US businessmen are now suffering from these problems since
2005's and continue to loose credibility. Vietnamese are not arrogant people but
have serious problems with other characters embedded in our culture
from the long years of
warfare to recovery. We must make a determination to remove
these characters from our professional mentality to be successful in
today's economy. |
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What |
Why |
How do they affect economic growth |
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NO CROOKEDNESS |
People assume that international businesses can be more crooked.
Experienced traders have studied our country a lot more than we do
ourselves. Crookedness causes a bad name for the entire country. |
Generations of
hardships have built in this habit for life in Vietnam. To many, it was the only way to survive so it became a way
of life. But in a world economy and international trade, crookedness does not work. It prevents business
growth, it will lead to distrust, disputes and discredit. Internally,
it causes delays, conflicts, and creates obstacles to a timing
operation in modern production. |
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The many years of
struggles during the war created many forms of cheatings among all
levels of social strata. In modern businesses, technology can cause
crookedness to be easily disclosed and it is not necessary |
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NO
OBSCURITY |
Obscurity is when one is evasive, unclear about himself. Businesses
often use fancy, science, legalistic languages to be deceptive. This
leads to disrespect distrust, and even costly revenge. |
OBSCURITY, indirect, unclear, elusiveness and indirectness, etc are not useful
in modern industrial setting as work process needs to move faster. We
can simply be FACTUAL, CLEAR, SINCERE but KIND in our work process with
honest communications and good intent. Never intimidate, never manipulate,
never threaten others as it will cause disrespect and creditability problems. |
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Business and
professionalism in today's information age needs consistent FACTUALITY
AND CLARITY IN WORDS, DEEDS AND IN PAPERWORK. |
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NEVER ARROGANCE |
Arrogance, if any, should be felt and never be known or heard.
Arrogance is a leading cause of failures among US businesses and
easily to cause weakness as arrogant persons easily become careless. |
Personal pride is different from arrogance based on the factuality of
the issue
whereas arrogance is the use of verbal or visual displays and
denunciation of others without much factuality or good intent. A
professional in modern economy needs no arrogance but to use his
performance, productivity, skill or intelligence to gain respect or
results. Arrogance often leads to complacence, assumption and
laziness. It actually exposes the underlying weaknesses in that
person. |
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ARROGANCE is a powerful
way to be disrespected in business and will also lead ourselves to
failure on our own. It also leads to complacent, laziness and
carelessness. Vietnamese are not arrogant but more like to be
opinionated due to the years having to struggle on their own life
alone. |
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To
be more effective and competitive in the world economy, we must
unlearn the old working styles and manners of our past. Deception was a style of the past; Obscurity is no longer useful with the
information age and arrogance is a psychological poison that can blind a
smartest man. Humility is one of the greatest
gift and teaching of the forefathers of Vietnam. It is a proven
successful strategy for many business and a most dangerous one for
other competing nations in today's world economy. |
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Rule
#3: RESPECT THE
IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN FACTOR IN MODERN ECONOMY |
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What |
Why |
How it can be used for
economic growth |
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RESPECT BOTH PEOPLE &
TECHNOLOGY |
Regardless of any economic theories, HUMAN FACTOR must be respected,
wisely supportive and included in our planning and growth strategies. |
Human factor is critical and is well respected in our economic plans.
Vietnamese grew up with closer friendship and family circles and
culturally more personable and sensitive than others. Western
management mannerism and style is not suitable. We must develop a
management plan that nurtures closer personal support system will be
more productive in many ways. |
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Science is a neutral
and dependable REFERENCE but HUMANS are still the OPERATOR of modern
economy but in a scientifically advanced way |
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HUMAN & THE ECONOMY |
Human factor are individuals with emotions and feelings that will
react to our own actions upon them. They must be respected, treated
with care. To be professional is to learn how to work with them - not
without. |
The
downfall of Western thinking is that humans can be
influenced by external means from the outdated theory of supply-demand
doctrines. Human factor, their culture, mind, nation, must always be
respected and considered, never be underestimated, shallowly thought
of as a tool to exploit. |
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We can never disregard the
importance of respecting humans and human emotions, feeling in
business. Any disregards will cause us to be much less effective and
even to fail. |
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MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS |
No
management effectiveness is achieved without learning SCIENCE and
knowing PEOPLE. Both of them are not mechanical matters and must be
well considered in modern economy. |
Western macroeconomic and management models mechanize both science and
humans as numerical values that interact with them via needs, money.
Once no longer needed, both are discarded. Such models are even
counter-productive. As professionals, we must never copy this outdated
management style if we want to be successful. |
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Effective management must
depend more on SCIENCE and a wise respect to HUMANS AND THEIR INNER
FEELINGS. Poor management are often a result of insensitivity to staff
and workers. |
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As Western-trained professional, we have learned and experienced the
greatness of both Western and Eastern culture. To understand and
respect the human fact is still a formula and theory that are much
more useful than any economic theories from any sources. Humans are not
to be treated as commodities or mechanical parts within a process. The Vietnamese people have a much
more natural sensitivity towards other humans and this is a good thing
to retain and to improve upon. |
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Rule
#4: SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY MUST BE USED WITH A HIGHEST SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY |
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What |
Why |
How it can be used for
economic growth |
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SCIENCE AND LIFE |
Western thinking allows science can be used to serve individual or
corporate interest or for any purposes including costly damages to
societal. We strongly disagree. |
We
must teach our future generations to use science and technology for
the common needs of society, of other humans and of global concerns.
If we continue to allow any irresponsible use, we continue to cause
conflicts of interests and make global plans much harder and costlier
for other poorer nations. |
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SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
must be guided towards peace, stability and happiness for society and
not solely for individual selfish goals as in Western societies today. |
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY |
Social responsible use of Science and Technology is a moral, national
and legal issue for each nation, we must prevent irresponsible
criminals. |
In
the name of "freedom" Western nations allow criminals to use science
for anti-social and even terroristic acts. We believe that it is both
stupid and wrong. Smaller countries may not have the means to protect
innocent people. As professionals, we must know and work solely for
the benefits of society and of humans. |
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SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY are
useful tools for us to improve life, protect humans and environment.
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FOR THE FUTURE |
Science and technology are important for future generations to learn
and to become useful to their people and their nation. |
Advocating responsibility and science/technology, we also take a stand
against technology criminals that do nothing but terrorize businesses,
governments, software companies, banks, etc. We must teach our future
generations to respect others and respect their society, their nation
and the international communities. |
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SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY are
important values and should also be transferred to younger generations
via education at home and schools. |
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HIGHER SENSE OF SERVICE TO
THE PEOPLE & THE NATION |
It's necessary
for developing nations to advocate responsibility for higher
productivity by self-responsibility towards products and productivity.
When individual services recesses, such aggregate decline in
productivity and lead to economic decline for that nation. |
Western nations uses
individualism to intensify consumers market. They blindly allow
supply-demand philosophy to govern society, industry and other humans.
This exploitation model increased high wages and self interest without
increasing productivity. When money supply reaches limit or stagnant
(when economy cannot grow), this philosophy breaks down their
industry, produces more poor quality workmanship and eventually
relocate their own labor services overseas. This is what happens to US
industry and they must remedy this problem. |
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No social or economic
institutions can exist on its own. It is a fallacy and a danger for
poorer society to follow the footsteps of individualism to an
excessive extent. To look at society and people as the end of one's
work. |
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Regardless of how other nations operate, we must develop independent
policy of our own regarding SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY. This is not only
to present a stronger and more respectable image of Vietnam and be
respected in the World, it will also develop a responsible,
respectable future generations and elevate the moral and ethical
standards of our professionals. |
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Rule
#5: MUST LEARN TO
OPERATE AS A SYSTEM, WITH A PROCESS, AND WITH CLEAR STRATEGIES |
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Vietnamese are highly individual in character and strength. They have
the ability to work independently and thrive for success
independently. However in a modern economic warfare with competitions
from other nations, individual strength alone is not a formula for
success. We must learn to work with an organized system, combining
strength with others; must operate with a pre-designed process of knowing
when, where and how the possible moves will be; and we also must have
a well planned strategies and clear objectives in every stage or
process to ascertain such objectives. |
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What |
Why |
How it can be used for
economic growth |
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SYSTEM |
The
first step in working as a professional in modern economy is learning
why and how we must operate as a SYSTEM, a UNITY, and a NETWORK.
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Vietnamese are great at the ability to work independently and
diligently. But to create a strong and competitive economy in the
modern world, we must be organized and work as a system with clear
operations, compartments and interrelated functions. But each
compartment must operate in cooperation with the others and never copy
the US style of fragmentation and in-fighting. |
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Professionalism means
that we must learn to organize, networking and cooperate to strengthen
ourselves as a team to accomplish more and to learn not to weaken each
others for the interests of society |
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PROCESS |
The
designed process within each department and of the whole organization
is essential for our success. |
Vietnamese never get used to working with a designed, written process and an
operation manual that mechanize and systemize the whole entity or
organization. Without a designed process, we are weak, fragmented,
inefficient, slow without knowing who is accountable in the event of
problem. |
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All professional working
requires an clearly designed process and not just work as it comes. We
cannot accomplish much with the old ways. |
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STRATEGIES |
Strategies are defined by the situation. Strategies in any economic
plans are highly organized but also highly flexible with
sub-strategies and alternatives. |
Again, to be professionals in modern economic organization against
strong nations, we must prepare ourselves with various sets of
strategic plans for each working process or phase. This is an
inevitable way that professionals must operate. It may takes a while
for Vietnamese to adapt to this working style but they will appreciate
it when they see the results. |
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As professionals, there
must be well designed plans and strategies to achieve these plans.
Strategies must be followed thru but must be flexible enough to adapt
to changes. |
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WISDOM VS. PROCEDURES |
Professionalism means the
WISDOM of achieve results using procedure is a guide. American styles
are slow and self-defeating when procedures are their goals.
Industrial production is a dynamic process with changes, adaptations,
movements. PROCEDURES are just guidelines for efficiency - not the
ends we serve. |
A weakness of US
administrative and management is their excessive use of rules and procedures
without using their heads. Their work process is heavy and cumbersome.
It creates hatred, conflicts and delays. Procedures are operating and
management means but not the ends we serve. Wisdom, Productivity and
Service are. We cannot use procedure to limit labor quality
and constraint production. Too much procedures is working like a
blind and brainless man: Eventually he will hurt himself or others.
This system is slow, stressful and not suitable for modern economy. It
causes smart workers to quit and bad workers to be worse. |
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Even though modern
industrial production must be pre-designed, professionalism means that
we still need WISDOM over PROCEDURES. Procedures are guidelines but
not designed to solve all problems or exceptions. US
administrative and economic engines are cumbersome with too much rules
that cause their work to be slow, costly and will continue to make
their industries inefficient and services are slow and poor. |
