Forbes Global CEO Conference 2009

It was really insightful!

Personally, I prefer the Section XVII - Leadership: back from the brink the most.

"Everyone can be a manager, but not every manager is the leader..."

As a leader, you create vision and communicate within organisation to ensure every stakeholder works towards the goal and mission. You passionately implement your plans and apply your strategies effectively. You are the soul of the organisation who drives the vision. With the limnited resources and infrastructures that you have, you need to maximise your profit and efficiency. Obviously, you cannot walk away from responsibility.

To be a leader, you have to possess the ability for people to follow you. By achieving this, you can now be considered as a successful leader.

But, how to get his/her willingness to follow you? Undoubtedly, it is tough and it involves a lot of hard work. First of all, please be reminded that nobody is perfect in the world, even a CEO on global level. A leader has to employ people according to their ability. Besides that, a leader must realise how to serve problems.

Listening to people is another important elements that you need to own as a leader. Only by listening, you get to figure out a lot of problems around you and even foresee the potential problem before it arrives.

Lastly, people don't follow what you say, but what you do. Your action is the best way to get your employees to follow you. Your professionalism will inspire them eventually.


Thanks for sharing wth us, Dr. Fredrick Chan, Naveen Jindal, Dr. Helmut Panke, Admiral Bill Owens, James E. Thompson & Francis Yeoh.