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LEADERSHIP: THE STRATEGIES

8.30 am INTERACTIVE SESSION VII:
Developing Strategies for Leadership
Session Led by Hiru Bijlani
also found at: http://bbfld8.blogspot.com/2008/10/transcripts-interactive-session-vii.html.

life is about getting the man/woman right. everything in life is about getting ourselves right. we always think about how to change the world, and what’s wrong with life when all we need to do is change ourselves.

there are various forms of learning:
talking – transactional learning (nothing really retained despite excitement)
seeing
hearing
doing
sharing – transformational learning

hiru goes through the slides. these slides are found on the baba mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/buildingabetterasia/web/leadership%20ppt.ppt.

successful people have 3 main attributes:
1. are self motivated – habit of the mind.
2. have positive mental attitude. – habit of the mind. focus on sphere of influence (what can i do)
3. goal directed – habit of practice.
-written goals get done. thought goals don’t.

baba4 fellows then break up into groups to discuss their action plans:

maky – capacity building. nfsa (nippon foundation scholars association). i want to create a non-profit. going to small schools in japan doing motivational activities for high school students to go to college level. first goal is self education, which i will start immediately. second goal is transferring of education. i will make a full report of what i learned here to present to my group back in japan. this report to be done within weeks after baba. continue active participation in my scholarship. in 1 or 2 years, i will found an organization/non-profit and do it in japan initially. funds are very important. as baba, i would like to leave a link with my scholarship and contribute to the baba group.

ulzii – capacity building. i work for a training institution. i will work toward citizen’s participation in local leadership.
i will liaison with baba. i will design a training module.

don – governance. efficient administrative system in vietnam. immediate action is speeding up the process of drafting laws related to efficient administration system. with baba, goal is to contribute to all levels. immediate maintenance of connection through blogging, email, etc. replicate baba retreats in vietnam.

binaya – community development. promotion of traditional medicine. conduct study of traditional medicine.

tin – poverty. improved agricultural production system. 3 year program. for the first two months to form a group of farmers.

ju li – security. continue my phd studies in the field of anti-terrorism. pakistan issues – identify why this has happened in pakistan. contact the grassroots, to understand why they suffer from such poverty.

junbo – good governance. research on issues on asian governance, such as poverty reduction, international relations. influence the government on the importance of cooperation.

kamrul – human security. try to fight against corruption and terrorism in bangladesh. get various stakeholders to commit. once in a month he will communicate 1 month.

noaoki – effective education and training program for maritime society. need to collect information on population in each country. make teaching materials related to maritime. and to share this with baba.

marat – regional security in central asia. support this by writing scientific papers to define the real challenges in security. create a new think tank that specilizes in regional security. only 5 central asian countries in order to focus on the current security issues. on baba, i will popularize this program in kazakhstan.

madhu – how asian security as a whole could be promoted. ensuring how human security aspect, and its various challenges, have a commonalities. write research papers and share them with baba.

mathurana – efficient governance. keep every customer coming to my office happy and satisfied. deficiencies in administrative system makes our service very inefficient and makes customers unhappy. write procedures for each item of the administrative procedures, and the execute them accordingly. and share these experience with baba.

erna – human security. how to introduce “responsibility to protect” – by doing peace education to share knowledge and gain a mutual understanding about human security. do advocacy. baba goal: share my research results with baba fellows.

danaa – sustainable development. to develop an interactive training program for mongolian people. informal learning process for normal people to give them hope and to set a lifetime goal. this will take 3 years from now. for baba, join in the baba volunteer corps.

kamei – poverty. globalization and capacity building. share experiences of baba with my students. build confidence and awareness on the need for regional cooperation. encourage my students to write term papers. invite baba fellows to india. write a book on conflict by end of 2009. establish a school by 2015. build network outside baba because world is to big.

ito – form baba vc by december.

sayako – consumer awareness. their responsibility of being a member of economic power. to feel sense of connected to the world. on baba, to convert my blog in english and invite baba members to join.

peng – sustainable development. consumers have their own responsibility to sustaining their own life. i will reduce my own energy consumption. take only 1 shower every day. turn off all unused lights. recommand other young leaders to join the baba.

novri – poverty reduction. understand how to prevent violent conflicts. create an early warning and response system. for baba, join the vc.

sitthattha – human security. in laos there is no equality between men and women.

citra – poverty. develop an informal/formal discussion that will focus on poverty. examples on waste management needs to be promoted. get the youth to spend their time usefully.

these actions plans are signed and will be typed and uploaded to the baba4 mailing list.