This mind map of Tun Dr Mahathir's keynote speech on "Asian Leadership" at the 14th ICOT on 23 June 2009 in Kuala Lumpur is the second of four mind mapped keynote speeches that I promised to post. The viewer is invited to Prof Howard Gardner's Keynote speech in my earlier post.
As usual Dr Mahathir's speech is always covered with interesting anecdotes. One of the things he emphasized is that DEVELOPMENT requires able LEADERS who has the ability to also THINK about DEVELOPMENT. This inevitably covers one of his best remembered achievements as PM of Malaysia where he stood his ground during the 1997 financial crisis to steer the country towards economic recovery.
Dr Mahathir also mentioned that once LEADERS (e.g. GEORGE BUSH, TONY BLAIR, RICHARD NIXON, MAO TSE TUNG / MAO ZEDONG etc....) are in POWER, it is very difficult to remove them. (These remarks drew laughter from the audience). Yet they, the LEADERS, are important in the development of the country.
I leave viewer(s) with an interesting interpretation for the rest of his excellent speech, that was delivered to a pack audience at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).
I am very fortunate and thankful that Dr Mahathir was very kind to autograph my mind map of his keynote speech that I did during his presentation. This is the second time that a Prime Minister has autographed my mind map. For the first, viewers are invited to view my mind map of former PM Goh Chok Tong's keynote speech given at the Singapore Quality Award (SQA) presentation ceremony in 1998 [CLICK HERE]. Please enjoy.
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As I was an SQA Assessor for 1997/98, I was invited to the SQA Awards Presentation and Dinner ceremony at Shangri la on 15 July 1998.
I was very excited when I learnt that the Guest-of-Honour was going to be the Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong himself. I have made up my mind to try to mind map his speech. Mentally, I prepared myself by thinking about what he would say during the SQA Awards Presentation. The occasion was just after the 1997 financial crisis. So I read as much information there is about it.
At the same time, I prepared the Central Theme for mind mapping his speech. What should be the image that would best associate this occasion with the PM? Since, it would be delivered by the PM himself, so I decided to draw a portrait of the PM next to the SQA Trophy.
The night of the award came. I was a bit nervous as I knew I have only one chance to mind map his speech. To my amazement, I managed to surprisingly summarise most of the key points of his speech on my mind map. I believe, it was due to my preparation for this important real-time mind mapping of the PM's speech. I subsequently went up to the PM and requested for his autograph on my mind map. PM was very obliging and I thanked him.
I was indeed very happy to be the owner of the only real-time mind-mapped speech of a Prime Minister.
