Tuesday, April 26, 2016

CONTENT NO 4

4.    Visionary

Visionary means someone who can virtualizes the future and also can be said as supernatural. By extension, a visionary can also be a person with a clear, distinctive, and specific (in some details) vision of the future, usually connects with advances in technology or social/political arrangements (Anon, 2015). As the successful entrepreneur, they have special characteristics that include openness, imaginations, persistence and conviction. 
A successful entrepreneur has a short term and long term vision. According to Osman (2007), an entrepreneur can make predictions about the practice, opportunities and threats that exist in the organization and its business. Entrepreneurs who have the high attitudes of vision able to see the future based on existing opportunities and are able to produce something new. They never looking backward and more focus for the future. The successful entrepreneur has bright vision that they want to achieve based on the objectives and goals. 
This attitude of visionary can be seen as Tan Sri Dato’ Loh Boon Siew (Johari, 2016) where he was the person that responsible for bringing Honda motorcycles in Malaysia. This is so because he has high vision that Honda will be well received in Malaysia in the future although it not at the first. Not only that, he also the person that who create the first Honda motorcycle factory in Malaysia, namely Boon Siew Assembly Plant owned by Boon Siew Sdn Bhd at Industrial Estate, Penang. This factory can reduced the production costs and increase the sales when the production of the motorcycle made in Malaysia. With the high vision, he has been particularly successful in the field of motoring. 

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