- Assalamualaikum and a very good evening to everyone!
- First, I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate all graduating students.
- You should be proud of yourself.
- I know how hard it is to reach this point in your life.
- It’s a job well done!
- In previous years, I talked a little bit about the virtues of working hard and dreaming big.
- This year, I'll briefly discuss the virtue of working together.
- In a highly competitive world, compounded sometimes by our Asian values, our world is thrived with competitions.
- We could easily get trapped into the thinking of zero-sum-game; if someone else gets all the pieces of a pie, we'd get nothing.
- In fact, if we work together, we could actually expand the size of the pie.
- We could get a larger amount, even if the percentage might be lower.
- For example, 1% of 1 million dollars is bigger than 10% of 1 thousand dollars.
- I'd like to close by sharing some key ideas from a bestselling business book from last year entitled "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success”:
- Helping is not the enemy of productivity or success
- Helping others could increase our productivity, creativity and innovation.
- Last but not least, nice guys can indeed be number one (I'm putting my bet on Shao Shen)
- With that, congratulations and all the best!
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Give and Take: A 3-Minute Speech for 2014 Malaysian Graduation Dinner
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