Malaysia have nowadays many Award Schemes like CEO of the Year,Top Brands,Enterprise 50,Malaysia’s Billionaires’ Club and etc…actually what can we learn or what have we been able to learn from this “Winners”?here’s the stories..

Ramli through many years of working as an employee and later as a self employed person running his own small business,always want to aspire to be the best or in Ramli’s word “to unleash the hidden talents to infinite possibilities or world class results”

When we want to be the best we must seek first to find some good examples either in a person,company or a combination of both.

Ramli is fortunate enough that he started work at the age of 20 with Matsushita Malaysia and with Matsushita Philosophy,Ramli learned a lot about the responsibilities as an entrepreneur (in Matsushita’s thinking) and what are the values and good practices of a socially resposible company which Matsushita was so early in her history committed to perform and excel ie.since 1918 when Matsushita was incorporated in Japan.

No wonder,FORTUNE magazine have announced Tan Sri Konosuke Matsushita as the Greatest Entrepreneur in the World.That is no understatement or poor decision on the sides of the Fortune Magazine Management and Editors but based on what Matsushita have contributed to the World by way of his business philosophies,products and services,employees’ assessment and loyalty,customers satisfaction not just locally but globally and his coaching of his people and his business associates have made him so important,a model figure,a mentor and most important a good man to learn new knowledge and best practices that really work!

In Malaysia,we too have many AWARDS SCHEMES and many prominent people,Billionaires,Top CEOs and important Top Managers and their respective companies have been accorded with Awards and Recoqnition as Malaysia’s Best!

What have we learn from them,actually?

Many of these companies or CEOs have shown that they managed to make huge profits by changing their business models or leadership styles and strategies  as well as many have taken their companies “out of the reds to be in the black” and making great business turnarounds and transformation to be Malaysia’s Top Companies in terms of profits,market capitalization and shareholders returns etc..

How do they managed to get all these wonderful results?Is it a continual basis or a one-off affair?Is it because of the Government Bailed Outs or Political Patronages…tell Ramli pleased…

Are the CEOs or Executive Chairmen really Great?Are they people like Matsushita or Bill Gates or even Steve Jobs?

Are their companies offering jobs as many as they can create everyday or are they managing their business by “hire and fire” or

“management by fear” ?

Are they  making real profits by their smartness,best strategies,excellent teamwork and innovative products and services?

Many Malaysian businesses still rely so much on the Government to give them projects,subsidies,tax discounts,overseas projects and personal attention!Why?

Just imagine if Malaysian businesses are put on the same playing field as the foreign companies that are freely allowed to invest in Malaysia and no special treatment to anyone,maybe Malaysian companies will easily lose out and only get the crumbs while the best are “eaten up” by these foreign world class companies who are always ready to “harvest” the marketplace with all their best practices,great leadership and ability to stand alone without much outside help especially from their governments!

These are the type of success stories  that Malaysian must learn and understand so that learning from these Annual Award Winners will be as good and satisfied as winning the awards by the Winners concerned!

To Ramli,a  Winner is one who can create or develop as many winners like themselves,thats a Great Winner or Champion!Agree or Disagree?

All Governments must ensure their Pension Funds are well managed and providing good security to all pensioners be it at age 55,58,60,62 or maybe older!Read this recent article on Retirement Age and the impact on France’s Economy and Financial status!

France launches bill to raise retirement age

AFP – Tuesday, July 13,2010

PARIS (AFP) – – The French government was Tuesday to officially launch plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, in a sweeping overhaul of the pensions system that labour unions have vowed to fight.

The plan is a centrepiece of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s reform agenda as he eyes a reelection bid in 2012, but it has been overshadowed by a huge political funding scandal that hit his Labour Minister Eric Woerth.

Under the plan, French workers will have to pay contributions for a longer period and some new taxes will be imposed on high-income earners and on capital gains to help plug a gaping hole in pensions funding.

The most controversial parts of the plan will be pushing back the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018 and bringing pub sector pension plans in line with those in the private sector.

Talk of raising the retirement age has been taboo in France, where the right to stop working from age 60 has been enshrined since 1982, one of the main legacies of Socialist president Francois Mitterrand.

Sarkozy said Monday he was ready to discuss some of the measures in the bill with the trade unions, but that the 62-year target and the extension of public sector employee contributions would stay.

“I’m telling you: 62 years, that we won’t touch,” he said in a major television interview called in an attempt to move beyond the Woerth scandal.

“I’m telling you: The equality if public and private contributions, that’s a question of justice. On the rest, we’ll be open to hear what our negotiating partners say,” he declared.

The plan prompted mass street protests last month and labour unions have vowed further action when parliament debates it in September.

“I’m expecting demonstrations. I know that people are suffering. What will make a difference will be our idea of what is just. Not the size of the protests,” Sarkozy said.

Woerth’s presentation of the bill at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting comes at an especially delicate time, after a scandal linked to the fortune of France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt.

A government report cleared Woerth of accusations that he helped Bettencourt evade taxes, but other probes into her affairs are pending and he has also been accused of illegal campaign funding and conflicts of interest.

On Tuesday he is to formally present his pensions bill to the government, which is expected to approve it and pass it on to parliament to debate in September. Sarkozy predicted it would be voted into law shortly thereafter.

The reform is aimed at helping the government meet its announced deficit target of three percent of GDP in 2013. Woerth says it aims to balance the books and achieve “zero-deficit” in its pensions scheme by 2018.

France’s biggest union, the CGT, has told the government to go back to the drawing board and come up with another plan, calling it a “flagrant injustice” that puts the burden of reform on workers.

Jean-Claude Mailly, leader of the Force Ouvriere union, has branded the draft legislation “socially unjust and economically inefficient”.

Like many other European countries, France is facing a funding shortfall in its pensions plan due to a growing older population and fewer working-age people paying contributions.

The deficit is on track to reach 45 billion euros in 2020 and could reach between 72 and 115 billion euros by 2050, according to France’s COR pensions advisory council.

French workers on average retire at a younger age than most of their counterparts in Europe and the proposed changes will still leave them with one of the lowest retirement ages on the continent.