Innovation through Fusion by CJ Meadows

Author:CJ Meadows
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2019-11-23T12:05:59.348000+00:00

Talkativeness and Daring — Bad for School, Good for Life

With no chance for admission to higher education, his next step was vocational school, generally regarded as a “dummy school” back then. He learned about hotels and catering, training to become a receptionist or housekeeper. Instead, he became a site supervisor and salesman at a construction company. Three years later, he was their top salesman (see Figure 22.1). How?

Figure 22.1: Talkativeness and daring made Jack a poor school student but a wonderful salesman and entrepreneur.

He was talkative.

Unfortunately, since he didn’t have a degree, he couldn’t be promoted. He didn’t fit “the system.” So he started his own business at age 24.

In fact, Jack didn’t just start a business. Singapore was growing exponentially at that time under Lee Kuan Yew’s leadership (1959–1990), and over the years Jack founded 16 successful companies in a variety of fields — Malaysia’s biggest brick factory and biggest roof tile factory, Singapore’s Australian International School (co-founded then sold for $100 million), factories in Singapore, and more.

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