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Leadership principles for meeting planners and convention organizers - lessons from the Asian classics by Dr Seamus Phan If you have lived with a traditional Chinese family, you might notice a thick red volume known as the “Tong Sheng” (通勝, roughly translating to the “all pervasive winning book”), which provides a family encyclopedia for everything ranging from agriculture, acupressure points, divination, philosophy and much more. Inside the “Tong Sheng”, there is a portion dedicated to the Three-Character Classic (三字經, or Sanzi Jing), written in the thirteenth century and usually attributed to Confucian scholar Wang Yinglin (1223 to 1296 AD). What Wang did was to compress the essence of Confucianism into a mere 1,200 characters running in three-character verses. Most teachers and parents of old would teach their children these classical values and philosophy with the Three-Character Classic. How then, would meeting planners and convention organizers benefit from the likes of the Three-Character Classic? Plenty. Building trust with wisdom for kids From the Three-Character Classic, Wang mentioned four verses, “曰仁義, 禮智信, 此五常, 不容紊”. We can roughly translate these verses to “The five virtues of Benevolence, Duty, Etiquette, Wisdom and Trust are constants that must not be compromised.” When meeting planners and convention organizers work with professional speakers, content experts and academics, it is important to see beyond just dollars and cents. Yes, it is a business after all, and meeting planners and organizers might be hard pressed for resources, finances and time, and the competition is deafening. However, if we subscribe to a long-term business model and intend to stand as long as the pillars of business, much as many classical businesses that last till today, then it is important to look beyond short-term results and cut-throat practices. With the five virtues of benevolence, duty, etiquette, wisdom and trust, let us see how meeting planners and convention organizers can better work with the speakers and experts they represent.
The Feng Shui of collaborative success Christopher Reed, a writer in Los Angeles, wrote an article "Feng shui craze hits American corporate suites", on the 27 March 2004 issue of Business Times Singapore, a national business daily newspaper. In the article, Reed mentioned that businesses ranging from NewsCorp, DirecTV, and even the State of California, are all looking at Feng Shui, or geomancy, the art and science of building and fixture positioning, to enhance wealth. Feng Shui is not just physics and mysticism, but about harmony. It is really about how your location can BLEND harmoniously with its surroundings to bring you prosperity. That is why the best Feng Shui often means that your neighbors and the surrounding ecosphere must be successful in order for you to be successful as well. So the next time you sit down and chat with your speakers about events, think about what kids of yesterday learned from the Three-Character Classic, and see what the classics can do to not only improve your bottomline and outreach to speakers and experts, but how it will spread by positive word-of-mouth for you and your company to other speakers, as well as corporations alike. Dr Seamus Phan is a leading author, keynote speaker, trainer and naturopathic philosopher. Seamus is one of Asia抯 early Internet pioneers and bloggers. Seamus consults and speaks for international companies, governments and emerging enterprises around the world. He is the bestselling co-author of Dot ZEN \, a business leadership book, and This Body This Life , a holistic health and fitness book. Copyright (c) 1990-2005 Seamus Phan. All rights reserved. END | |||||||||
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