TRAITS : TIME COMPETENCE

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TIME COMPETENCE

           Competence indicates sufficiency of knowledge and skills that enable someone to act in a wide variety of situations. This include of each level of the responsibility that has its own requirements. Competence may occur in any period of a person's life or at any stage of his or her career (Dictionary : Competence, 2007). Meanwhile, time competence refers to the ability of a person managing their daily time, the ability to manage time and appreciate the nature of time. From the aspects of entrepreneurship, high time competence is important because it is one of traits encouraged in person to be successfull.

( Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong )

            A successful entrepreneur and one of the richest in Malaysia who have a sense of time competence is Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. He were very strict when it comes into time. Tan Sri is the founder and former president of Genting Group lifetime. He died in 2007 as Southeast Asia's richest person with assets worth RM 421.8 billion. Lim Goh Tong was the fifth of seven children of Lim Shi Quan (a seed merchants in China) and Goh Ban.

He had a brother, 3 sisters, a brother, and a sister. His father died when Lim Goh Tong was only 16 years until he was forced to quit school and took over his father's business. With the support of her mother and brother, Lim Goh Tong began working in Malaysia at 19 years old. He started living in Malaysia by working as a carpenter. It continues with the strategy of start trading tools and machinery used, to invest their profits in the mining business and small plantations.

Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, is a man that adopt timely made. He will arrive 10 minutes early from time that has been promised. He himself never breaks a promise that he made. Due of this attitude,it affects to a positive relationships that have been built. Tan Sri also practice wake up early and went to sleep late, said his workers (Tribute : Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, 2007). Overall, many chinese people successful in  intrepreneur because they work 18 hour perday. Same goes to Tan Sri. He only have a limited time to wind down. That is why he strict about time because he appreciate every single time that he had.

( First World Hotel, Genting )

            Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong ever worked two shifts throughout the week in order to save costs. He and his friends had experiences lived in forests and caves . He was the first to work on shifts 24 hours a day throughout the week to ensure his ambition achieved. He will also be the first to get to work and be the last man to come home from work. He is always taking care of its employees and assumes that all employees are his most valuable asset (Rahsia Kejayaan Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, 2013). Now, First World Hotel is one of the largest hotels in the world build by his hardwork. All about him is time. He manage his time in a day to be a successful man as he achieve today. To conclude,he is very suitable to be label as a time competence entreprenuer.

Bibliography

Dictionary : Competence. (2007, September 16). Retrieved from Bussiness Dictionary: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/competence.html

Rahsia Kejayaan Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. (2013). Retrieved from usahawan.com: http://www.usahawan.com/tokoh-perniagaan/rahsia-kejayaan-tan-sri-lim-goh-tong.html

Tribute : Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. (2007). Asiatic Development Berhad - Annual Report 2007, 2.