The International Journal of Professional Management - ISSN 20422341
Conceptualising the Words of Wisdom from the Four Speeches of Jack Ma – The Lead Founder of Alibaba
Volume 13, Issue 4, August 2018
K C Chan
wholistic_kcchan@singnet.com.sg
Introduction
No ordinary people in the world could receive four honorary doctorates from four prestigious universities in the world within a year. However, history needs to reinvent itself. This awesome lead founder of Alibaba, China – Jack Ma has shocked both the academic and commercial world with the unprecedented “Mission Impossible” becoming possible.
I was enlightened, enriched, and enthused by all of his four speeches. Each one is refreshing, reassuring, and reinforces common sense in its own way. His words of wisdom are the result of smart pc, and mistakes distilled into meaningful axioms.
Despite being inspired at the time, after a few days I found I had forgotten much of what Dr Ma has shared. Is it because I did not understand what he said or because I am getting older, now 63 years of age, and the memory begins to fade bit-by-bit? To counteract this, I have taken down the salient points that he made in each honorary doctorate speech viz:
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