We all need someone to look up to motivate ourselves in life. The people who
you choose as heroes,mentors or idol or anyone is a
reflection of who you are or who you want to be.When I was young my heroes were the firemen, nowadays they
are people who have succeeded inspite of difficulties. Someone who have become
successful like Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Donald Trump and many more.But one true hero who is close to my heart after reading the article above is none other then Dato Anthony Francis Fernandes.
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- He worked briefly in Virgin Atlantic as an auditor, subsequently the Financial Controller of Richard Branson’s Virgin Records. He is a Fellow Member of ACCA.
- At the age of 28, he became the youngest Managing Director of Warner Music (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.
- In 2011, he started the Air Asia with RM1 to purchase a highly indebted (RM40 million worth of debts) malaysian government-linked airline.
Everyone thought he was crazy and expected him to fail yet just in 1 year on his takeover,AirAsia have cleared all its debts and even made a huge profit.
He was recently named one of the 100 most creative business people in 2011 by New York-based business megazine Fast Company (June 2011 Edition). In addition, the online version of the megazine also named Tony as one of the 10 most creative in Twitter.
In 2010, he was named Forbes Asia Businessman of the Year 2010.
In 2009, he was named the Airline CEO of the Year 2009 by Jane’s Transport Finance Megazine in London.
and many more awards…
Factors that make him so special are:
1. His Air Asia Slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly”
2. He mission of serving the underserved
3. His personal belief to ”Dream the Impossible, Believe the Unbelievable, and Never take No for an Answer”
4. He believe to provide opportunities for talent to flourish, for meritocracy to reign and for people to realise their dreams.
5. He is determined to bring afforadbility in our other aspect of our life (such as Tune Hotel, Tune Talk and Tune Money, Tune Studio, Tune Tones & Epsom College of Malaysia)
1. His Air Asia Slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly”
2. He mission of serving the underserved
3. His personal belief to ”Dream the Impossible, Believe the Unbelievable, and Never take No for an Answer”
4. He believe to provide opportunities for talent to flourish, for meritocracy to reign and for people to realise their dreams.
5. He is determined to bring afforadbility in our other aspect of our life (such as Tune Hotel, Tune Talk and Tune Money, Tune Studio, Tune Tones & Epsom College of Malaysia)
I found all these great leader criteria in him:
- 1. He is visionary and a great business designer
- 2. Bold, brave and courages
- 3. Creative & innovative
- 4. Fast & decisive
- 5. Open and willing to empower his people
- 6. Smart in using technology to in operation, marketing and customer services
- 7. A busy man who knows how to build and have fun
" So, to everyone out there, dream on; put in the effort, keep the passion alive and one day, your fantasy will become reality. It did for Din and I. " Mr. Tonny This is more than just a words for me, People used to tell me dont dream too much....i never agree with that and always said that dream is something i can imagine...and if i can imagine then i can achive it....Your words gives me more confident to continue my effort for reach my dream. thank you
ReplyDeletesai:Dreams (hope) are one of the most important people can have. When we were small, we have a lot of dreams, but when we grow up, because of the environment and too busy with our daily lives, we forgot our dreams. This is possible to achieve dreams when we have goals and plans in our lives and know how to overcome fear. I am reading a book called - "Outwitting the Devil" written by Napoleon Hill. 98% of the people in the world have great fear to achieve what they want to achieve. But when we have fear, we also have hope. We can overcome fear by hope. Understand this, it is easy for us to know that dreams are achievable.
ReplyDeleteHi Tony, I am a Hong Konger lived in KL as my husband is a Malaysian. We run our business there for more than 10 years and fully understand the frustration you have been through when dealing with government. Your choice of moving AA HQ to overseas is a discreet biz decision, though I must say that this is a big loss to Malaysia. Malaysia, if she can be progressed, must first of all, get rid of the arrogant and bureaucratic entity like MAHB in the govt system. But frankly, I don't see Malaysia is going that direction. The bad culture is rooted too deeply and it takes an iron leader to turn it around. So far, no one of this quality is in sight among the ruling or opposition party. Enough for politics, please let me show my gratitude to AA by providing us chances of traveling at so affordable prices. Your recently introduced "Free Seats Option" is a beauty. Please keep up the good work and bear in mind the customers' well-being on top of your biz agenda. Cheers. By the way, we have moved our biz to a foreign country, just like you, and are now much more happier. The sky is bluer out there.
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