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from Asia's leading thinkers

"Today, Asia is a major exporter of ideas, in a position to teach the West vital lessons in leadership and the management of corporate change."

While it is obviously too early to tell if the 21st century will indeed become "The Pacific Century" that optimistic pundits in Asia were proclaiming a few years ago, there is little doubt that there is much the West can learn about leadership and corporate management from the great thinkers of Asia, both past and present.

Asian Words of Wisdom - over 500 motivational quotations and phrases on leadership, marketing, and personal development from Asia's leading thinkers

The 21st century

As the 21st century gets fully underway, markets are changing at an accelerating rate, industry boundaries are blurring, and customer needs are becoming more specific and customised.

The forces reshaping the world economy today are more numerous, more interwoven and combine to be more powerful than any other combination of economic and political change since the Industrial Revolution.

Change is happening so rapidly that the countless reorganisations, restructures, down-sizings, mergers, break-ups and new business start-ups make the business community seem almost out of control.

The customers of the 21st century will continue to present a vast array of challenges and opportunities. However, these challenges and opportunities are unlikely to be as apparent as in the past.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.
Tzu-Sun

Asian Words of Wisdom

He who rides the tiger can never dismount.
Chinese Proverb

Leadership

Though it may be hard to craft a universal definition of leadership, it is not hard to identify and define the skills of leadership, especially as these apply to business: capacity to provide vision, ability to identify opportunities, "big picture" perspective, ability to plan and manage change, results focused, proficiency in motivating others, inspiration, and confidence.

Managers do things right.
Leaders do the right things.

Asian Words of Wisdom

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

Coaching

Leaders produce change.

Leaders produce change by establishing a vision and a direction, and then by aligning, motivating, inspiring, and empowering people to collectively desire, seek, and attain the shared vision.

Most importantly, helping people feel good about their accomplishments is the secret to effective leadership.

Sharpen a knife-edge to its very sharpest, and the edge will not last long.
Lao-Tzu

Asian Words of Wisdom

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese Proverb

Asian Words of Wisdom

Personal Development

In the business world, the need for personal development has never been greater. The skills needed for career success and advancement are changing rapidly, and no longer include just the "hard" technical skills required to perform tasks. So-called "soft" skills such as influence, leading others, working in teams, cross-border communications, cultural diversity, developing others, and conflict management are all required for success in workplace.

If your mental attitude changes constantly under the pressure of tests, you are losing the battle of life. He who is undefeated within is a truly victorious person.
Paramhansa Yogananda

When you look for truth outside yourself, it gets farther away.
a Kung Fu master

The Asian Words of Wisdom

The words and thoughts of Asian leaders - both past and present - can teach both the West and the East vital lessons in leadership, the management of corporate change, and the cultivation of solid corporate cultures.

Within Asian Words of Wisdom you will find over 500 motivational quotations and phrases from some of Asia's leading thinkers: Buddha, Confucious, Mohandas Gandhi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Konosuke Matsushita, Lao Tsu, Sun Tzu, and others.

For more information please visit Asian Words of Wisdom

About the Author

Steven Howard is a positioning specialist, marketing consultant and author whose 22-year marketing and sales career in Asia an dAustralia has covered a wide variety of fields, ranging from consumer electronics to publishing and from a national airline to personal financial products.

Ron Kaufman is an internationally acclaimed innovator and motivator for partnerships and quality service based in Singapore and serving clients worldwide.

Asian Words of Knowledge

Words and thoughts are often the great seeds that lead to personal change. They are the building blocks that touch, provoke, arouse, and stir the individual passions and desires that stimulate personal motivation.

Within Asian Words of Knowledge you will find over 600 motivational quotations and phrases from some of Asia's leading thinkers: Buddha, Confucius, Dalai Lama, Mahatma Ghandi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Lao-Tzu, Paramhansa Yogananda, and many others.

These quotations will provide the reader with a wealth of benefits on spiritual guidance, understand ones' self, life, living, success, caring, service to others, and the pursuit of knowledge and learning.

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  • Gee_Matthews Jul 19, 2010 @ 10:55 pm | delete
    Barking dogs seldom bite.
  • aesta1 Jun 4, 2010 @ 1:02 pm | delete
    I enjoyed reading the words of wisdom you have included in your lens. Very profound thinking.
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    I love the book!
    thanks for your lens
  • SGwebdesigns Mar 13, 2010 @ 1:51 pm | delete
    It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
  • allymay Jan 22, 2010 @ 4:27 am | delete
    leaders are made, not born
  • shinhwa Jan 11, 2010 @ 9:37 pm | delete
    "Great things start from small beginnings"
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    I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
    Benjamin Disraeli
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