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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 10:45 AM
All,
It is sort of a survey and not a joke at all.
The question is who can make the best Chief Executive Officer in Nepal who can bring solidarity and economic prosperity? I prefer someone between 30-45. Anyone older than 45 not allowed. Anyone older than 45, I consider an older generation in the present day Nepali context. We should get rid of'em. If you know one, why and how s/he can make the best CEO?
Prerequisites:
1. at least Masters level of education
2. Well travelled (around the world)
3. experience in Corporate world
4. Must speak Nepali fluently and must have a good command of English Language
5. Must be older than 30 and younger or equal to 45
6. No past history of criminal records (Corruption!!!)
7. have personal wealth of $500K - Million US $ earned by good measures.
(The reason I think this is necessary is because it gives financial security to his/her
family in case things don't work out or for any other reasons)
8. Must have experience dealing with more than 10-50 million dollar projects.
9. Knowledge of high Tech experience (Telcom, Comp, etc ??)
10. Must exhibit an exceptional degree of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness and
be able to apply and develop highly advanced technical technologies, scientific
principles, theories and concepts.
Maybe more.....????
SMSainju
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 11:00 AM
Whoever had wide exposure. I mean a person with following Hahoo!Features (all):
1. who had industrial internship.
2. who worked in government office for atleast 1 year.
3. who worked in other's company under some good boss. a kind of training.
s/he also dealt with outsiders: in various projects, how his boss deals with peoples.
4. A person who was able to bring projects starting a proposal right from scratch and to final completion report. Lead a group of people.
5. Has some taxation and book keeping knowledge.
6. A person who handled budget: purchase of items under his own project, and minimized the costs to bring more saving. (budgeting work).
7. A person who had some idea in general affairs depatment or welfare department, i.e. he should know what his employee expect in order to work for the company i.e. to feel company is for me too.
8. A person with masters degree, and in masters degree s/he must have done some research work, and knows the importance of research. At least knows basic of optimization technique: shortest path methods.
9. is agressive towards wrong doers.
10. appreciates good doers.
11. listens to his subordinates, and reports to his boss.
12. has meeting on friday (backups: what happened in the week and what are the plans in next week from his employees) , and gives a short speech on monday (reminds his goals set on last friday: so that the employees can catch the things forgotten in weekends).
Last but not least reads business news papers and reads first share market section and foreign currency rates.
HG
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 11:04 AM
This idea is for small scale business.
Small Business house want to: Grow into the business.
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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 11:07 AM
HG,
CEO to run the Country (NEPAL)....
SMSainju
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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 11:11 AM
HG,
... and was looking for a Name....
SMSainju
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| rabi |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 01:07 PM
A noble undertaking, but you seem intent on importing to Nepal a relatively young MBA with some history of success in Corporate America, perhaps somebody who rode the tide of the the 90's tech craze.
What if the Immigration hakim at Tribhuvan Intl Airport deports him (her) on charges of treason ("Ta Bideshma 'moj garera' aaera, ahile yahan desh chalaunchhu bhanne?"), or if the Customs Officer confiscates his(her) laptop, steals the PDA, and demands a cut of the $500K fortune?
Pardon me for being less than serious above. But my question is: do we believe that a smart, well-intentioned Nepali MBA with a global perspective, who has made a small fortune running a complex multimillion $$ operations in a western multinational tech firm--if installed as the "CEO" of Nepal--will be the miracle we all have hope for.
Will (s)he be able to (1) bring Nepal out of the brink of full-scale civil war, (2) provide leadership to help Nepalis charter a course for self-governance (despite the '90 constituion, I believe we still haven't figured this one out fully) (3) strengthen/clean up the political process and ensure stability (4) improve the standards of living of Nepali masses (5) guide the Nepali society
IMHO, running a multinational as a CEO is vastly different from running a country, especially one with as much complex problems as Nepal. There are no rules and any kind of education or experience, though helpful, can not teach you all. The kind of superhero we wish for are born once in a few generations, and do not fit any mold.
Great leaders are made of stuff such as: deep commitment to and understanding of local culture and society; unyielding honesty and genuine compassion; strength to take risks, endure and persevere; strong political instincts; tendency to challenge and uproot the status quo; ability to envision, articulate, inspire, lead and transform societies.
SMS: I don't want to prematurely derail your quest for an ideal leader, but I just want to point out that "market conditions" in our beloved motherland appear wildly un-ideal compared to a western free-market economy. Just a disclaimer intended for any CEO Sajha may end up exporting to Nepal from North America. ;)
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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 03:03 PM
rabi ji,
I'd lay a wager my two cents on someone who can bear out at least some sense of ingenuity and decency of human being OVER those political pundits who solely enjoys the gratis ride as a result of, what I call, lack of education, ignorance, fear and most of all true lack of leadership.
On the hindsight, we could have done it better. Lets face it, Nepal does not have a true leader. Nonetheless, I still see "SMALL LIGHT" at the end of the tunnel.
Benevolent Dictator is what I call a true leader that Nepal needs at the moment to govern and to what extent.
It is a "catch 22." Those who know ins and outs of the nepali politics, culture and etc don't have the leadership and decency to govern. And some of those who do have the decency and maybe some leadership qualities may not have the guts to govern.
You gain experience by doing it. So, do you think we can find some alternatives?
SMSainju
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| Logical Sense |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 03:35 PM
SMSainjuji,
Good thoughts, but, before I name a person, let me tell you one Management story which is very appropriate here:
One laborer, one supervisor and one LEADER was given a task to cut a THICK Jungle. The laborer was sweating out by being busy using his tools while the supervisor was very laboriously finding best way to increase the PRODUCTIVITY by applying all the theoritcial knowledge PERT and CPM etc. But the LEADER was doing nothing and whistling around. At one point he climbed a tree and looked around and then said, 'wait a minute guys, we are in the WRONG JUNGLE'.
Moral of the story? A technical savvy or a highly educated person may not make a good EXECUTIVE. Good executive is one who is 'BORN LEADER', a Visionary who can see where things are going. A leades by EXAMPLE. Who can quickly get a BIRDS EYE view on Complex problems, who can think 'OUT OF THE BOX'.
You should immediately strike off 'BOOKISH' person, SLC fail person. Fluency in English (Chinese leaders can deal with G. Bush without talking in English), being business executive, having money, dealt with 10/15 million dollar projects, and younger than 45 are just bonus.
Rather this executive must be a:
TEAM player,
extremely knowledgeable,
very pationate,
extraordinary negotiator,
genuine narrator,
high on common sense,
very intelligent,
high on moral grounds
Above all he has to be VISIONARY. (Had our leader's seen what would IIT do in India 40 years ago and created a NIT instead of asking for a Janakpur Churot Karkhana from Russians - Nepal would have been a different place....)
So, do I have a person in my mind other than Myself? :-)
Really non, but if I had to pick one then I will vote for Sanjeeb Rajbhandari (I am pretty sure he is more than 45 though). He is a business guru and Visionary. He lacks lots of my other requrements, but those can be 'TAUGHT'. Hey, if Condleza can teach 'Foreign Policy' to G. Bush, anybody can learn......
- iti
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| hard_ |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 03:42 PM
Have to agree with Logical Sense's nomination. Had the privilege of working under him for a considerable amount of time.
He sure has vision and always a step ahead in his thinking. An implementor. But the downside is, he seems to lack a bit of managerial skills and employee management skills.
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Just my one cent.
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| rabi |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 05:39 PM
SMSainju:
Now you really got me cornered. :) It was easy for me to find fault with your criteria, but now you are asking too much of me:
"So, do you think we can find some alternatives? "
Kidding. This doesn't have to be an either/or question. You can have a person with innate abilities to dream, articulate, inspire, lead and transform our society. At the same time, this person can be educated, globally aware, of sufficiently modern ourlook, and have ample organizational and managerial skills.
We can at least dream about the existence of one in Nepal, or measure leaders-to-be against these standards.
It is my personal opinion, however, that the first set of criteria is more important, and much more rare than the second set. Effective leaders don't control, dictate, or get bogged down in details and they certainly don't know it all; they influence, inspire, delegate and make effective use of other's ideas and abilities. As long as our ideal leader can unite Nepalis, articulate to all Nepalis (beyond Kathmandu khaldo, much much beyond) a clear vision of more prosporous and peaceful Nepal and inspire all to work on achieving that vision, (s)he can as well be Thulo Kancha's grandfather/mother from Gulmi who doesn't know much English.
Lastly, I must say that I do understand the presumption in your original post that given the absence of any other reliable guide to scope out the one leader who will make all the difference in Nepal, a person with qualities you originally mentioned may be our best bet. My point is, may be, ... but this savior may also be lurking in someone who may not be so exposed to the western world.
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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 11:18 PM
Rabi,
It is easy for us to loose touch with reality when we see so little of it. You may find it hard to believe, but an effective leader indeed do dictate and must dictate (command) otherwise he/she is not a leader. A leader is, in fact, angled for his/her belief and set of principles. An effective leader has two As, i.e. Accountability and Authority and last but not least Responsibility.
A true leader must know what the hell he/she is doing. This is the root of all problems in the present day nepal. We've got many of those leaders, what I call them Murkatta (Head cut off) Leaders.
World today is not the same as it once used to be. One no longer becomes the master of ones own domain. It is a conglomeration of many entities which have symbiotic relationships. Vision, influence, inspirations and yada yada are not new things as they have been invented and tested many many times in the fiery furnace of history. I can assure you there are plenty of people with such exceptional abilities in Nepal. Don't be surprised, you might be one of them or your Thule Kancho from Gulmi, for that matter. But, then again, they lack something else to move forward rather than backward.
It is not a question of where you import or export a true leader from but merely a daunting task for ourselves to find one among ourselves if and when we can rely on this soul and may look up to do some little soul searching and many many other things..........
SMSainju
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| ashu |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 07:39 AM
SM-ji,
Long time, no guff-suff.
Let's do so one of these days.
Our mutual friend, as you must know, is in Japan these days.
That said, you wrote:
"Vision, influence, inspirations and yada yada are not new things as they have been invented and tested many many times in the fiery furnace of history. I can assure you there are plenty of people with such exceptional abilities in Nepal."
If this is true, how come we don't really find these people in today's Nepal?
Or are they all living outside of Nepal -- in the US, the UK and Australia and elsewhere?
Besides, I happen to be wary, even suspicious, of charismatic CEOs -- Nepalis or Americans or anyone else -- for whom everything is effortlessly easy and everything is decided through PERT and CPM and who look great on paper and who have never failed at anything nor have made lots of mistakes.
I like these guys; I just don't want to be governed by them.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 08:24 AM
Hey Ashu Raja,
Its been long time. I did not know she was away. Will call you one of these days. A friend of yours who you once worked with (now in Boston U) stayed with us for a few days. He spoke highly of you. We talked and talked and talked. I thought he is pretty smart and liked his demeanor.
On the note, I think we do have people with such exceptional qualities in Nepal or outside Nepal. We don't have to go far to fetch 'em. They can be found among ourselves. We just have to look hard...
You maybe incredulous about some high profile CEO goverining, but I think, given the opportunity, they can make better govering body than the oxymorons we currently have.
I strappingly advocate for a dictatorship of a benevolent leader in the Present day Nepal.There is a small price to pay for this and I bet lot of people are willing to do just that. Democracy is not what we need. Afterall, it is not for everyone anyway....
SMSainju
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| Jame Bonds |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 08:27 AM
How about we nominate Mr. SMSAINJU himself? What do you think Mr. Sainju?
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| SMSainju |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 08:43 AM
I sure can understand your tone of voice. I scored 36 in the earlier survey. It says, I don't make friends very easily. Maybe, I can't make friends easily.
What is your rationale on such statement anyway??
SMSainju
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| Jame Bonds |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 08:52 AM
Sainjuji, I sincerely apologize for my earlier statement. I did not read ALL of the requirements you wrote. I realized now that you were sincere in your writing - and that it was not an ego boosting trip that we are so used to by certain politician wannabe that we know so well. These days sajha is so full of egomaniacs that I mistook your post as one of those, but as I said, I realize now that I was mistaken.
My apologies again for writing the above statement SainjuJi.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 07:48 PM
SM-ji,
Actually, many people in Nepal too call for a some sort of banevolent dictatorship.
Given the political mess created and sustained by the so-called democratic netas, I understand why many Nepalis seem to be sayings aying that they want just such dictatorship to provide order, security, predictability and stability, but I am not sure whether such dictatotship would be in the LONG-TERM interest of all Nepalis.
More later,
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Logical Sense |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 08:01 PM
There is nothing called 'Ideal' dictator who can be sworned in when we have disgusted netas and who will 'hand over' the power once we generate back Visionaries netas!
That is wishful thinking!
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| rabi |
Posted
on 13-Nov-02 09:34 PM
SMSainju:
"Benevolent dictator" can be a contradiction (or an oxymoron, if you will) or not, depending on what you mean by a "dictator". Mostly a dictatorship implies not only an autocracy (one man rule), but oppression and exploitation as well. A case of contradiction, won't you say?
Instead, if by "dictator" you simply mean somebody who acquires and maintains absolute power without a formal "democratic" process, "benevolent dictator" may not be an oxymoron. Such a dictator with even partial benevolent tendencies would be a miracle in Nepal today.
Having such a "benevolent dictator" in Nepal means: somebody with the best of intentions is able to grab and maintain power in Nepal. (or the converse, but I haven't seen anything yet to have much hope for a change of heart in Mr. G) I would gladly forgo my trips to the voting booth and live under such a "dictator" for years.
The problem is that dictators tend not to be benevolent. They and their cronies mostly live merely to perpetuate the autocracy, exploitation and oppression. Conversly, the benevolent folks tend not to be dictators, or tend not to have the the desire or the ability to be installed as a dictator.
So we are stuck with "leaders" who either do not have good intentions, or can not stay in power, or, worse, both.
During the Victorian times, Clough said:
"Alas, alas! O grief and wrong,
THE GOOD ARE WEAK, THE WICKED STRONG;
And O my God, how long, how long?
Dong, there is no God; dong!"
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:_QHAN-2NPBAC:www.wwnorton.com/nael/noa/clough_a.pdf+%22The+good+are+weak,+the+wicked+strong%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Until and unless we Nepalis have an actual sakchatkar with a truly "benevolent dictator", I am not pinning much hope on this one.
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| rabi |
Posted
on 14-Nov-02 10:11 AM
SMSainju:
I see that I have indeed helped derail your quest for the ideal leader in Nepal. Let's get back to business. The question still remains, who will be the best leader in Nepal today? The criteria I suggest is: somebody who can rise to power and maintain it by whatever means (the dictatorial factor) , and can mobilize all (the strong wicked, and the weak good included) to work towards bringing lasting peace, stability, justice and progress to Nepali masses (the benevolent factor).
The easiest way out is still Mr. G, because like it or not he is already sitting there. If only he would rise over his and his henchmen's petty interests (well, on second thoughts, may not be so petty) and seize on the truly unique opportunity he has to leverage his ancestral prerogative for the good of 24 million people in misery. He can choose to be mortalized in the luxury and decandence of the present, or to be immortalized in the 21st century history of Nepal. Short of a heart transplant, are we chasing a mirage? My take is, he can be my king, if he can show he is working on earning it. Ditto for his descendants. The bus to free-ride left the station the last century.
I don't really have much idea of other star candidates. Does anybody? Somebody not merely benevolent, but with the potential to be a "dictator" (sans the negatives)?
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