Be Bold & Risk It!
Today is a very special day for me, and all Awesome Humans in the team,
because,
it is our finals competition day for Deloitte Risk Intelligence Challenge Trophy!
It is such a random combination on how 4 of us came together for this competition.
At first, we were closed books, so shy and fearful of each other.
There were times that I thought we really couldn't go through & it is so hard to get 4 of us to sit down & even discuss about things, not to mention to come together as a team and have a common goal, which is to win this competition.
But for now, I am so glad that things turned out the other way, and even rounder than expected. :3
For this competition, we really trained very hard. weekends were always fully packed with practices & all the homework.
Wishing to be the cream of the crop,
I really put most of the things and commitments aside to concentrate on this competition.
This round, the debate topic is about innovators vs followers.
We are the opposition team which supports followers over innovators.
To be honest, we were so scared off when we were to oppose innovation.
But as we moved on,
We found that, there are a lot of statistics supporting our arguments.
After all, in this world,
How many businesses are truly innovative?
From our research, there is super risky for businesses to innovate as there is 90% of failure rate.
With this direction, we have come across so many examples to support our points.
In fact during the debate,
we really started off very strong by painting a wide picture on the whole country's economy,
and the disadvantages of being the innovators.
We are not to disregard innovation, but to deliver the message that,
it is not worth the risk & effort, businesses can be successful through other ways such as branding, quality etc.
From biz point of view, we shall let others take the risk & try out their experience.
But,
the whole idea started to be blurred during Q&A,
where we started to rebut badly about innovation.
Even when the judges were giving examples & asking questions that have in fact directly supported our points,
we were all messed up and didnt get the message across the plenary.
The main role of Q&A is to in fact, re-emphasize & linked back to the points that we have mentioned earlier.
But, we didnt do so for the second half of the Q&A, and lost confidence & momentum.
Even though we started with a bomb at the beginning,
we lost the main focus of our points & weren't much assertive at the end.
The ideas that opponent team have given, were general,
but during Q&A,
they were at the upper hand of being confident to rebut & question back at us using what they had. On the other hand, we were the ones who started panicking.
We had indeed found a lot of facts from all reputable sources (Forbes, The Economist, Harvard Business Review etc),
but most of them are yet to utilized.
The content wise, we are really much concrete with back-up facts,
but we failed to deliver the message to the plenary,
with suitable argumentative points.
It is really disappointing & heart breaking to be very frank. Even through had some failed experience in competition and other aspects, they didnt hit me so badly until this came.
It is okay to fail the experience, when you know that you still have a distance to go.
But it is not justifiable to fail due to the mistakes that you have made despite all the preparation.
Nonetheless,
It is a miracle that
We have come so far.
I am really glad & grateful to meet this bunch of people,
friendship
thanks to Eugene :)
Life still goes on no matter what, and life itself, is a gift.
Smile and stay strong no matter what happens :')
What it needs, is a listener, in case of poisoning death
Two months ago :)
Today :))
Thought of the Day that I came across yesterday before sleeping:
You have to accept whatever comes,
and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
to be continued....
