By Wing Chan on January 30, 2007


CHILAB LIMITED Managing Director Bruce Stinson was asked to give a presentation to the MBA Students at HK PolyU in late January 2007. The topic was:

IN YOUR RIGHT MIND
DOES LEFT BRAIN THINKING LIMIT ASIA’S MANAGERS?

ChiLab Limited Managing Director Bruce Stinson was giving a presentation to the MBA students at HK PolyU.jpg

A few weeks prior to this event an article (and some letters of reply) appeared in the South China Morning Post – Hong Kong’s leading English language newspaper. The article was written by Professor Ali Farhoomand of the University of Hong Kong and made the point that although Hong Kong workers were spending longer in the office than those in any of 61 other developed countries surveyed, The Special Administrative Region of China was, in fact only 27th in that group in terms of productivity.

The stifling of innovation and creativity was seen as the cause of this anomaly.

The Hong Kong Dilemma.jpgIronically the article was accompanied by the following illustration.

The Hong Kong Dilemma Illustration.jpgThe point being made was that Hong Kong’s education system and work practices were behind the stifling of innovation and creativity.

From the feed-back letters published in the newspaper it was obvious that the opinion expressed by Professor Farhoomand in the article was shared by many in the local community.

This thinking aligns neatly with the reasons behind the development of the IN YOUR RIGHT MIND program and was the launch point for this presentation.

Mr. Stinson focused on:

  • Concept of Left and Right Mind Skills 
  • Impact of Generational Change and how it differs in West and East 
  • Need for managers to encourage training in Right Brain Areas 
  • The four modules of the IN YOUR RIGHT MIND program

The presentation was very well received by around 150 MBA students with evaluation forms producing the following sample of comment.

Feedback.jpg
More comments from MBA class:

  • "Very clear presentation. Very useful for the workplace."
  • "Thank You. The presentation was interesting and funny." 
  • "I found the part about using the subconscious very helpful." 
  • "The idea of changing habits as you suggest is very useful." 
  • "As well as at work, I am going to use what you showed us for money management." 
  • "Good. Very clear presentation. Can help us a lot with thinking." 
  • "Very interesting, very helpful for working with other people."

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