Since our President Peter was not in the
town, our Vice President Tobias Doeringer
was the President of the Day. Welcomed our
visiting Rotarian Joyce Mak from RC Kings Park,
Mr. and Mrs. Lanz from Laufen, Switzerland
and Mr. Colin Fraser form South Australia,
and the guest from our President today Mr.
Gordon Chiu and also our guest speaker for
today, Mr. James Haybyrne.
PP Tom Sheppard declared that gardening
project would be held on 19th October
(Sunday). After the digging work on that
day, we will need volunteers for doing an
easy and pleasant task - planting the
trees. And we will contact the Interactor
for assistance. This function can provide
the children with a better life by planting
trees on the premises of the Home of Loving
Faithfulness, and to reduce noise and air
pollution.
Up till now, only few tickets for the Club
888 have been sold. As we have 600 raffle
tickets this year, each member has to sell
at least 30 tickets. If any member is
lacking the application forms of Club 888,
please feel free to call Grace (Secretary of
Bernie Ting) for the delivery. Please
enroll and return the filled application
forms now.
PP Nick Pirie will have a trip to Sichuan on
27th October in order to investigate the
construction work. If any member is
interested in the Leprosy Project, you are
welcome to go with PP Nick.
The Sandy Bay Fair, raising funds for the
children in need, will be held on 1st
November 2003. Michael Lam is so kind to
offer candles for this event. And we need
your participation in running our counter,
so please sign up and contribute.
Our speaker today was Mr. James Haybyrne,
and the topic was entitled, “Strategic
Thinking”. Mr. Haybyrne emphasized that
strategy is very important to business. He
said strategy begins by reconnaissance and
surveillance, creating a vision of the
future in terms of factors such as
economics, natural resources, existing
capacity, technologies, marketing methods,
products design features, and demographics
or just profits. He also pointed out that a
company can determine their future, within
that future they decide their strategy –
what products or services they should
provide, to which customers, and which
geographic locations. When the companies
have decided their future plans, they must
be consistent and follow their directions.
Last but not least, he indicated that in
the center of all this is strategic thinking
and learning, the essential ingredients to
building and leading a performance based
organization. At the end, it is the
capability of the senior executives to think
strategically, to think and act as if they
were living in the future, which will ensure
success
