Asif Osman, General Manager at Middle East Infocom, argues that action beats desire in professional success. He cites the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Bear Stearns to show how institutional failures ripple globally.
Let me introduce our first speaker. Our first speaker is Asif Osman, is currently the general manager of at Middle east infocom.
More than 90%. Okay, so this next question, if somebody gives me the right answer, except two people in this room because I've already asked them a question so they know who they are. So if I ask you this question and you know the right answer, what you have to do is not sit there and shout out the answer. You've got to come here, stand next to me, give me a kiss. Now don't give me a kiss. Stand next to me and say the answer to everyone else. Okay, so the question is, you're using Google all the time. What color is the G and what color is the O? You know that it's all different colors. So our desires should be justified with action. There's no use having a desire. What is it called if it's a desire without action? A dream. So are you going to live on dreams or are you going to live on action?
When a giant like Lehman Brother fails, everybody was taken aback. And that follows a series of lots of organizations falling with the likes of Freddie Ma. Then we had AIG calling him, Then we had Washington Visual, we had bear stems. All these big organizations failed in, in US and Europe. People say that when somebody in US sneezes, people around the globe catches cold.
Is everyone awake? Yes. Usually my wife falls asleep by now when I speak about this. Okay, in the beginning, in a galaxy far, far away, in the year 1990, web page was ever launched in the world. It was in the CERN headquarters. This is a sample of that page. Doesn't look like a weapon. So you've got content and people generally would create, consume or curate content.
If these are God's chosen people then God chose them to test the rest of us.
