New World or Quantum Leap

Days 26 - 974 days to go

I attended an urgent meeting for rate race. Our new CEO want to have a Fun and "new" Rat Race that is much better than previous year. In the meeting, I mentioned that if we really want to have a new rat race, we should not be constrained by any factors that hold us back. In this regards, it is our building as we always want to ensure that the race is held in our building or at least runners have to pass by the building.

If we decided that we can change to a new venue, there is a lot of changes that we can do. We will have a much larges space to create a fun-filled, carnival-like event. We can add more categories to the normal route, add a relay category for short distance, have hot-air balloon, create a "slam-dunk" management staff to raise fund, engage a clown to cheers the participants, have a mascot race, and the like. Another main constrain is our partner in the race. Due to various considerations, some of the proposals were rejected by our partner. As a result, we are not able to make big changes or improvement to the race.

Therefore, in order to have a quantum leap to create a 'brand new" race, I propose to challenge each of the major items for the race such as to change the venue, postpone the date as we need time to make a major change, bring in more participants from different areas of the capital market such as fund management, insurance, will writing, banking and so on. We always focus on public listed companies from different industries but did not really promote rat race as a race for the capital market.

Of course we have been making improvement to the race in the last decade which include changing the registration fees to have a big jump in fund raised, creating more categories, having cash and non cash sponsorship system, bringing in celebrities, expanding the venue to the open parking to house beneficiaries booth, added cheerleaders competition, creating photography contest, moving the dinner venue from indoor to outdoor and so on.

Rat Race is only an example to illustrate that if we always lock ourself to a wall or frame, we will never have a major breakthrough. In other words, if we do not let go something, we will not be able to get more thing. Imaging you close your fist and try to grab more things. It is almost impossible or yield very little results. Only when we let go what we are having, then only we will see a new perspective in life or in our action plan. As long as we are working within an old frame, we will not be able to expand our horizon to a new perspective and hence will not be able to find a new world like Christopher Columbus.