The Future Mind Transformasi Minda - Pemudah

Tiang Utama Ketiga 93The three essential areas the country needs to improveon if it is to achieve Vision 2020, are human, privateand social capital. They are so essential that there is noway we can achieve our ambitions without them.The best organisations challenge their workers to givetheir best and provide them the resources that theyneed to meet those challenges.Industry players have to understand that complaints anddemands to be shielded from competition will get themnowhere. Whether or not we like it, the global environmenthas changed fundamentally and unalterably. If Malaysiansdo not do what is necessary to survive and thrive, and doit faster and better, we run the risk of being left out andleft behind by others who will.PM: Malaysia Needs More Intangible AssetsNew Straits Times9 February 2010Malaysia must be prepared to face the removal ofsubsidies if it wants to become a more competitivecountry equipped with a high ratio of intangible assets.Subsidies for industries, the public and consumers mustbe restructured and phased out while greater domesticcompetition must take place.There must be better allocation of national resourcesand efforts made to address the misallocation of theseresources due to subsidised domestic prices. Giving freerrein to private initiative and market forces, however, hasimportant consequences. We may not be able to affordover-subsidised and under-priced energy.