Tan Sri Dr Lim Wee Chai

1. Human Life Longevity. In 2025, the average human life expectancy was around 75 years, and it keeps increasing from year to year. Based on Tan Sri Lim's Tiger Story, humans can live up to 150 years by 2125 due to the rapid development of medical science, technology and AI. Those who are under 50 years now have a high chance of living longer, even up to 150 years old.
2. Wealth Longevity. This becomes extremely important when humans have longer life expectancy. We need to become positive contributors by earning enough income to cover our costs and expenses.

Please continue to practise Top Glove's 5 Healthy Wells and keep learning. Do you remember what the three types of health are?

One person cannot carry 100 people, but 100 people working together can achieve much more. Teamwork is important for a company to survive, grow and succeed by utilising everyone’s talents.

When you put a carrot in front of a rabbit, the rabbit will run by itself. We need to use a merit and demerit system in the company. When we work hard, add value and improve performance, we all win.

When the company performs better, employees also benefit and share the success. If we are positive contributors, we are most welcome.

To do things well, do you remember how many percent depends on ourselves, and how many percent depends on others?

Customers want acceptable quality, optimum prices and excellent service. We need to buy smart, produce smart and sell smart. To understand customers better, we must get good market intelligence on market price, trends, competitors’ strategy and customer needs. Every staff should not sit in the office only, but visit more factories and meet more operation staff and workers to understand their problems and identify opportunities for improvement. Do you remember the weightage for quality, price and service? Quality 50%, Price 30% and Service 20%. The bottom line is: Are we positive contributors today and every day?

In the glove business, we must always buy smart, produce smart and sell smart. Every department needs to do its job well to ensure the company remains competitive in the world market and makes a net profit.

Purchasing and Sourcing need to buy smart by getting acceptable quality raw materials at the optimum price. Manufacturing needs to reduce mistakes and improve cost efficiency, producing consistently acceptable quality gloves at an efficient low cost. Marketing needs to have market intelligence, sell gloves at the optimum price and provide good service to customers.

Are we learning smart, thinking smart and working smart to achieve all this? Are we positive contributors today and every day?

We can choose to be a receiver or a giver. But why not both?

As receivers, we gain knowledge from teachers, salaries from employers, payments from customers, and help from others.

As givers, we share our knowledge and experience, pay salaries, support businesses, help others, volunteer, and give to those in need.

Life is not only about receiving. It is also about giving back.

When we balance receiving and giving, we create value not only for ourselves, but also for others.

This win win approach leads to a more meaningful and peaceful life: Wealth, Longevity, Peace and Health. 福寿安康.

Are you a positive contributor today and every day?

There are 4 types of learners:

1. Fast learners
2. Slow learners
3. Non learners
4. Wrong learners

There are also 4 types of people:

1. High quality, low cost
2. High quality, high cost
3. Low quality, low cost
4. Low quality, high cost

Do we know which type of learner and person creates the most value? Which type of learner and person do we want to be? Are we positive contributors today and every day?

Why do we make mistakes and perform poorly at work? Because our knowledge and discipline are poor or limited.

Why? Because we are not learning continuously and lack curiosity. Why is it some people work for 10 years but it is like they have only worked for 1 year, while others work 1 year but it is like 10 years? Because we do not ask enough questions every day.

Asking one or two WHYs is not enough. To identify the root cause of a problem, we should ask at least 5 WHYs. When we ask more questions, we will get some answers and knowledge which help us make better decisions and prevent mistakes. Curiosity drives learning. Learning builds knowledge. Knowledge reduces mistakes. Knowledge plus discipline is equal to wisdom, success and health. Are we asking more WHYs in our work and life? Are we positive contributors every day?