Friday, September 9, 2011

TWC Week 04

AHHHHHH! i'm almost done with my blog post but the moment when i accidentally hit on the "back" button, everything is gone! Now, i have to rewrite everything and i lost my thoughts! =(((( Most importantly, i thought the blogger has the auto-saved function yet i couldnt retrieve ANYTHING! This is technology.. anything could have happen..


I think "changes" is necessary and important. It help us to reflect on our current situation and seek improvements for the future. Hence understanding "Drivers of World Change" and "Change Management and Change Leadership" is very essentials to remain competitive.

To remain relevant in today's ever changing society one has to constantly seek to adapt to the surrounding. Companies who stick to old business models remain uncompetitive and forgotten over time. Governments who remain governing their country with decade-old methods remain stagnant and excluded from the growing economy. A fine example would be china who has effectively opened up its society to cultural and economic exchange. This has allowed them to be one of the world
s biggest power house at present. Even in Singapore, who long regarded Chinese as secondary and English as the preferred one has jumped onto the bandwagon of learning Chinese so as to assimilate into China's growing economy. As Darwin puts it, It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. In today
s context change is the only constant and it is only the ones who are the most adaptive that will remain relevant and non-obsolete.

It's very interesting when Tran Anh Dung introduces how social media changes the world because in today's context, social media such as facebook created an impact on the society. It changes how people communicate and sharing of information or even generate discussion. Hence recognizingly this change is relatively important because it's seems like a revolutionary change to me because it changes the way people communicate in the past and now. Just like how apple product is a good example of revolutionary change due to its innovation.


"The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader." Below is the video that Prof showed it to us and is really true! You must be daring enough to "CHANGE!" However, a leader can never be a leader if he has no supporters. =X




When you are the leader, are you proactive in the changes?




The main attention of the diagram is the ability of individuals to cross over from informed pessimism to inform realism. This involves the change management, ability to manage, lead and respond to changes which are traits to transit across. In conclusion, to be able to complete tasks or challenges, a good leader or entrepreneur has to be able to understand the drastic change being imposed while executing a task, and has to be willing to respond, react and alter necessary changes, which will bring led to a step closer to completion or success.


Overall, I would rate this lesson as 8/10 because when it comes to the last two presentation I was not paying enough attention.

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