I have been studying and practising, the dynamics of leadership for the past eighteen years. I am fortunate to have been associated with some of the most talented teachers and practitioners of leadership dynamics in the world. They are the sort of people who to this day continue to inspire, teach and lead me to practise that which makes a difference. I consider myself an ordinary person with pretty much an ordinary life. I have a wife, children, bills and all of the everyday circumstances we all must deal with. In other words, I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like you.

Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people. The leadership coaches in my life are the type who teach, coach and learn from the background. It is almost as though they are invisible. But, when all is said and done, the task completed, they have disappeared. The one being led, having achieved his or her goal, is left with not only their results but the experience of accomplishment and responsibility. We at AsiaWorks call this “empowerment” giving power to others.

As leaders of our future we look to you to continue striving for excellence in all you do. Excellence in personal performance is important to us, yet it is meaningless and even dangerous without good leadership and a sense of purpose. The development of good character is at least as important as personal achievement

Vision and AsiaWorks
According to Peter Senge, few if any forces in human affairs are as powerful as a shared vision. At its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question, “what do we want to create?” It is a picture we carry in our heads and our hearts. A vision is truly shared when you and I have a similar picture and are committed to one another’s having it.

But having a shared vision is only one facet of the question. Without governing ideas such as purpose or mission and core values, vision appears more as a good idea, a fantasy or just a catchy slogan. It is purpose or mission and core values that bring vision into everyday practice or our everyday life.

These governing ideas answer the critical questions: “What?Why? and How?” Taken as process, all these governing ideas answer the question: “What do we believe in?”. When AsiaWorks staff graduates say: “We are responsible as people to foster togetherness, to promote the general welfare of society, and to devote ourselves to the further development of a world culture of cooperation and understanding” we are describing the purpose of AsiaWorks. When we say “having the maximum number of people wearing the AsiaWorks pin and holding up four fingers for one another, we are proclaiming our corporate vision. And when we conduct the Basic, Advanced, Mastery, LP and our weekly staff meetings and cover topics such as win-win, openness, honesty, contribution and responsibility, we are practising and teaching AsiaWorks company values.

At AsiaWorks we recognise our responsibility to the community at large. The biggest contribution that AsiaWorks can make is to commit ourselves, without hesitation , to provide the most powerful transformational curriculum yet devised. It is to ensure a state-of-the-art technology that has people standing in a new relationship with themselves, their families, colleagues and community. A relationship in which a new world view emerges that says, “if I am not part of the solution, I am the source of the problem.”

And if AsiaWorks does its job, when our work is done, our aim fulfilled, you will all say, “we did this ourselves!”