Should a new trader start trading this year? Absolutely. Yes. Oh my god Why wouldn't you this year has been phenomenal in terms of the volume if you're gonna start now? I don't know when you're gonna start the time to start is always now Never procrastinate guys So that you can be prepared by next year try to get used to this YouTube life I see if I like it better than Instagram live I think the video out here. It's like Something different on what we guys do well today. Today's gonna be a Very good lesson for you guys on Monday flow Because we at the chat room Identified it very early as to what side has the event. It's today. It's weird I know football only basketball during the weekend Australia open man. Jokovic you guys watch that stuff. Oh my god He is the contender to be the all-time Grand slam Leaders soon man. He only has two more and he's just in his prime still Betterer man better could not win on clay within the doll. That's the problem better should have at least five more grasslamps He lost so many of these crazy matches in the doll trading is kind of like Tennis man, let me explain then we'll start so the doll versus Federer I've been big fan of tennis for a long time plays as a little kid The doll style does not match well with Federer because the doll has heavy heavy topspin and all the doll does is Topspin high to Federer's backhand and Federer is a one-handed backhand So it's very difficult for a one-hander to hit these topspin which is bouncing super high and So all the doll does is keep hitting it over and over and over to better his backhand and That's how he's been waiting all this time Same thing with stocks guys. There's certain stocks that just got your Certain stock setups. That's just you can't win for yourself because I don't know what it is It could be the fact that you are not technical enough to trade those things or it just gets you mentally or something like that So when you identify those type of stocks, do not trade them An example an example could be a stock that is Pumped by a chat room Maybe maybe you are not good at trading those stocks because you can have FOMO and you don't know when the chat room comes in So that's what we post within MIC Which stocks are being pumped by a chat room? We may not necessarily tell you who's with chat room doesn't matter. It's just a chat room So chat rooms are artificial it gets pumped up by volume and then when the guy sells All the sheep sells So you basically do this guys. I always talk about this go and review your trades go back to your trades go back to your trades and Determine which stocks type are you consistent with and which stock types you keep losing on? It could be a simple thing as a dollar amount Stocks are $20 above. Maybe you lose a lot or maybe you make money on them So even the chat room pumper knows that he's good at stocks that are like 10 to $20 range But I see him pump it all day long those kind of stocks is making money. That's because those stocks are lower float So he likes these lower float because it's a $20 stock and it's like a two three million float And so he pumps it and so you just like Nadal versus Federer.  Chatting up all the time. All chat messages are visible How many hours should you study as a beginner? I mean bro, I Mean, I don't understand why people ask those type of questions you study as much as you can possibly man What do you want me to say right two hours and 59 seconds? You gotta be I'm gonna give you some advice guys in life in life There's only so much hand-holding and spoon feeding something do to you at some point you become an adult And you start to think for yourself. You're not a baby anymore.  These things are just you know, I Have people asking me stuff like How do you join MIC and I tell them go to the website? And they go then what I?  He actually wrote the words Click some links No shit, man.   I? Mean dude, I Mean I'm gonna be brutally honest. There are some people that are not meant to trade Okay, I don't I wanted to do this rent today.    How many hours should I study?  Maybe go okay, right? But let's talk about the money flow. Okay, let's talk about why we're here My brain is not made for YouTube live today Tuesdays are my day. I'm still groggy.      All right, so how do we know? How do you know whether or not today is gonna favor a long or a short night? Okay, so today we actually identified the fact that when I woke up today, all I saw was a bunch of charts Bunch of stocks going up man, and they're all easy to borrow all All these higher floats. There's just so many just so many But there's no one real hot ticker We call those hot tickers major runners the hot chick of the day Okay, and then the minor ones are that the side that side plays right and so today We could not identify a single hot chick. It kept on going from one stock to another stock So we call that the money flow how the money is flowing So the fact that there's so many stocks running it took the attention away from most traders meaning when there's one or two obvious hot chicks Those those stocks just keep getting bought up bought up run up, but when there's so many of these Stocks that are running, but they're minor runners Money flow Doesn't it spread apart and so that's why these stocks kept going spiking up like ATIF CLSN RETO They spiked up and they tanked down. The problem is this guys At that moment in real time, it's very difficult to know The that we they would take How would you know you do not know that's the thing? Okay, but when they start to tank like that, you must be sharp enough to exit You cannot just say become overly biased because it's very simple when you look around you've seen all these new stocks Tickers come up and the money is flowing from one stock to another stock That's what we call the money flow and so identifying that we realize that today was a day to favor shorts Because the focus the attention is just too far spread. There's there's nothing to pump There's too many stocks, you know, there's no concentrated stocks And so you got to be very careful chasing all these stocks are super highs They go straight up like ATIF and straight down. I couldn't get a short on ATIF So it makes it very difficult for both sides of the stock guys It makes it very difficult is because I'm scared to long them they're way over extended and there's not a clear support line You know the deviation from VWAP is not there So we talked about deviation a lot in the room you can check it out later. It's basically there's no No conviction in my opinion on it on and long in the morning as well as there's no conviction on a short So it's very difficult to play. So how do you play that you go back to basics guys? So we made nice money today zero stress actually actually very very little stress I made over five grand and I was like, dude, I barely sized up anything All I did was I waited for the stocks to break and then bounce to short them Same process if you're a short every single day. So I go back to my bread and butter I don't guess these stocks is I really don't know these things could have gone up like see all that sand Could have went to the four bucks, but it did not or ETO could have went to four bucks But it did not and so a new stock came out our SVA with a chat with pump They went up to 27 28 dollars and they went right back down Because it's just so many different stocks for the money to flow and so what happened was at and then the days over You know for a short trader the zombie time comes you should really stop Stop and slow down at around 1030 the zombie rules. So that's why I did the days that That you feel as if you're not satisfied the days that You feel and you're not making up my or the most dangerous days and that's what I felt today. I was not Happy I looked at my results. I made over 5,000 in like half an hour. I Mean, that's a great day, right? But the problem is this man human psychology. I Made it too easy. Seriously. It's just too easy.  It's way too easy. I could have sized up The human nature is just weird man. We don't we don't value something. That's easy or free But when it costs a lot of money and so hard we value that.  We get in a car. We drive.  It's so easy and boring. And that's why teams like the Lakers where LeBron James is so bored He's always winning, you know, that's why it's hard to keep a lead in the NBA NBA because people get bored Everything with trading when we're young.  I wanted the action I wanted to trade because I wanted to be in the action, but now that I'm older I realized like shit, man. I'd rather be stress-free making money every day So today was a stress-free day. Maybe we're five thousand bucks within 30 minutes In my then I stopped because I did this IG of the YouTube live But I didn't feel satisfied.  You get so frustrated. You don't feel satisfied. You know, it's like I'm not satisfied man I could I keep thinking I could do a lot better because it was so damn easy So you have to be very careful when you see that and so I identified that for myself as a personal thing because I I do that all the time that I start to piss away money because because Trading some point, you know, it's not about the money anymore. That's a problem It's about the entertainment When when that happens you become a gambler and that's the danger guys, it's very very dangerous It's very dangerous when when you don't trade simply as a business and Start to treat it as entertainment.  Let's say I piss away a thousand dollars on entertainment That's twenty thousand dollars a month. I'm pissing away on entertainment That's twenty four thousand a year Pissing away on entertainment. You don't think I can entertain myself much better somewhere else So that's the problem people because that I tell everything I tell is from experience Reaching a point where I don't need the money this month whatever so you start gambling and then you feel so Stupid that you pissed away all this money. Now, you know my five thousand dollar cushion Has dropped you three thousand next year. I'm red on the day because I'm pissed. I'm chasing back That five thousand I had Trust me.  I should just walked away.   Hey, this is house money This is house money, it's not house money.    So so be careful, man It's like everything happens in patterns, right? It's like any sports athlete when you're doing well You know, everything's a flow. You just flowing in the ball or whatever But when things are struggling you start to doubt yourself So don't get to that point and this is where a trading accountability buddy a tab helps you guys Okay, this is what we always talk about Trading is not just about technicals. It's about emotions and psychological Same exact thing happens today, dude. I The reason I did this IG a YouTube like as I know myself.  This is it. I barely worked today I but then I looked at my P&L.  And so this is why we need a training accountability, buddy This is why we need a Community to check us. Seriously, some people would just love to make 500 bucks a day guys Making $400 a day is it's life-changing money Supplement your income. That's what we always say Okay, so I want to talk so this is a very simple topic today.  There's no more buyers. Remember the stock market is always about supply and demand So think about that There's ample supply all the time of these stocks because look at the float you can take a look at the float If the float has not been rotated yet, there is ample supply So that's another trick for you guys to look at right always look at the float Supply supply supply. How do you determine supply? Take a look at the float take a look at the volume And if the stock is not over-rotated there's more supply than demand And so that's what happened today There's not enough demand because there's too many different place out there and there's not concentrated on a few And when I see that situation When one stock starts to fail guys when one main stock starts to fail It becomes a domino effect CLSN RETO those I thought were the main hot chicks of the day, but then they started to fail the moment those failed everything else failed HIF failed everything else fell and then RSV a with a $27 stock that thing fell too, but But you know what? It's gonna be our rules. I had to leave to lock in the money That's how Alex makes the money Alex makes the money very unassumingly He's not gonna have monster days all the time We'll have a few monster days, but every day he's chipping away He's chipping away until those big days come and he's chipping away $4,000 $2,000 $5,000 that's a million dollars just chipping away and anything above that as a bonus And that's how you make money trading guys You know you chip away you chip away you stick to the process boring as hell and then boom one day You know when the size up because opportunities there Whereas everybody is always looking for the home run every day always anxious never happy And so what happens they Alex leaves makes his money.  I say a lot of stuff today, but let's take some questions and see if Any questions guys So today was a relatively basic normal day It's just we had a lot of different small cap plays to focus on and if you so the rule of thumb Is this I always say pick your top three? Focus on that because what happens is when a lot when there's a lot of stocks moving You have a tendency to want to trade them all and you will screw them all up It's better to nail one and to try to trade them all and screw up and lose So if you're new to trading Start with your top three list Maybe it's top five you research on it Will it down to top three top two top one? Okay, if you're new you should not be trading more than three stocks have your experience training more three stocks is very difficult as well We always say size the best forget the rest Okay, let me take some questions here Wondering why you shorted that opening spike if it was not broken yet. I Waited for this to be broken There are certain scenarios guys There's a whole dollar and half dollar scenario where you can take a little chance If it comes to $3 line for instance, I would short 307 some of that through 297 and and I just toward it and if it breaks I cover no big deal But there's a high probability that if it came from very low that a whole number is a Psychological resistance line because all the moms of pops of love what they want to sell the whole number who sells at $2 at 67 cents People are selling at $2.50 $3. No one's sitting around.  So Let me see So I hope that answers the question about why you short certain things whole number have the other that is a front side Yeah, and we we make a rule, you know, you do 30% very small in front side, and if you're wrong this cover Okay Shorts seem to have easier compared to longs in the market A lot of money behind shorts. I would not say that guys I would not say that this market has been killing killing those shorts. Have you not seen the stall market? Has not dropped in 10 years I don't know what you're talking about It's very difficult to short If you're wrong, you're blown up As a short seller the maximum you make is what 50% 80% you cannot make 100% doesn't go to zero But as a long buyer trader These stocks are going to 500% a day guys Shorting is hard not easy A good short seller Is usually someone that started as a long buyer trader yet. You need to understand both sides. I can do both In order to trade well You have to understand both sides And we do trade both sides in m. I see Let me see If someone wants to be a full-time trader, don't you think it makes sense to over trade?  Over trading is like overeating like over anything not good for you, man Should never over anything You trade when the opportunity is there.    Let me see Other questions, please You can use a trailing stop if you are position trading it We talked about this in the room a lot as well. There's many different types of stops We we we teach all the different types of stops There is an accelerator course which teaches all this stuff So if you knew the training guys, if you knew trading, I'm telling you this is the biggest thing There's not that much money. We have a course called the accelerator jump start it will In seven and a half hours jump start you from knowing hardly anything about stocks To being able to place your first trade you may not be an expert, but at least you will know What you're doing in seven and a half hours so Hit up toss toss it will give you a great deal on the accelerator guys I'm telling you man. If you lost more than like 500 bucks this week this month I don't know why you didn't join. I don't know why you don't get the accelerator Because you're just gambling you're asking all these questions. You're just gambling The best investment you can make is on education, man These guys they make money.  If you don't know what you're doing, man, you give it right back And chances are you're gonna give it right back to me and Alex and the guy that I might see How do you spot a halt coming?  If you have to ask that you're trading the wrong strategy Okay Yeah, the reason why you're talking about the halt is because you're in a chat room That's getting pumped their strategy is to use their sheep.  That's it Let me see deviation VWAP I explain it. They joined MIC. We made a whole thing on deviation VWAP. This is going to be a long discussion travel guy Hey, man, you're in MIC. Why yank this? We have a whole Go go into the MIC archive Look up deviation from VWAP It's all over the main chat, man We're not going to hear to talk this they should join MIC to learn the deviation VWAP is a very very powerful thing that We started talking about MIC that soon that everybody's going to start talking about it Deviation for VWAP. We have actually engineered Very new strategies and insight into the markets The markets are always evolving guys. I've been tracking these algos I've been doing all this and we're coming out with these strategies that are beating the algos Because I understand how these algos work. So join MIC to learn that man too much to explain here Let me see Yep accelerator. I'm telling you man.   You're hacking through trading Why not learn from a professional? Because you're learning bad habits.     That is pure gambling um Let me see I'm looking at this What percentage of stock price you usually stopped out?   I stopped out when I stopped out I mean what percentage how does that help how does these questions help your question should not be How often you stop out your question should be how do you stop out bow? When do you stop out? How do you know when to stop out? We have a whole video on the proper way to take on stop loss I think it's actually on our free youtube channel So learn guys.   I stop out all the time every day. I stop out. I mean, I don't know how that's gonna help you Uh, we I post my charts in the chat room. I show them my I stop out like clsn I stopped out things like that Sometimes I stop out is incorrect, but I'd rather be airing error on the safe side Okay, I'm gonna read more questions here Do you think you guys will ever give out the price you enter the stocks? I sometimes do Sometimes do The problem is this guys I'm not right all the time. I don't want to be or official.     And that's why we force you if you force to learn you will learn If you have a cheat way to get out you will cheat I am scrolling through the questions now Alex puts a watch list out The watch list is put maybe an hour guys half an hour to an hour before the market opens How the hell do we know what to trade?  M. I see is not for you.  I guarantee you man. You come back and go I'm out of money. I'm like, what happened to the money you made last year. I used to I lost it I'm so sorry.  And I'm like, bro, you were up a lot last month. Yeah, I joined this room. I jumped I I got dumped on and like dude Okay, the check the watch list is the stocks that we are looking at Someone may not work at the open. We give you the line Okay, we give you the trading plan of the watch list. I don't understand how much more can we do Should I just pull the trigger for you? The key of the watch list is twofold One is an education you compare your watch list to our watch list You can reverse engineer our watch list to learn how we got those trading plans and the lines When it opened you can watch if our watch list works It's not gonna be 100% but I guarantee you it's more than 75% accurate and we trade off of those watches Do you say that someone we don't trade with no shit man?       I just learned how To become the fastest sheep That's why you have these 10 room guys. I cursed them out already Remember they used to promote hotkeys They told you to mark it in mark it out.   I see learning from us guys They stopped using moving averages using lines.     I don't know Some someone should just block all these guys seriously, dude. I I don't really need to come here and say stop yelling You should you should just leave I mean, I'm telling you man today. It's not a good day for me. I'm tired and I'm hearing these questions like I'm getting I'm getting angry on purpose.     Why did you yell? I would love to do a meet-up guys Love to do meet-up waiting for the opportunity where the pandemic and the travel restrictions are lifted California is still restricted all these things.    No bodyguards.   The reason I'm still alive is the reason why we're doing this because we should educate you guys, man I could certainly make a shitload more money by pumping to you guys. I guarantee you You think that volume will carry on This is my opinion on the market guys. I think the market is becoming very top heavy um I think this Economics wise is always a cycle. It's been 12 years bull. It has to go down. It has to go down. Just be careful You're learning right now the guys are learning how to properly trade will trade well in every market condition I don't care.  Only if you're a female Are there edges going long or short? There's no edge all the time in any stock guys The edge comes in education to know when To short when to go long we identify today as too many plays money flowing all over To be careful because it will drop But we don't know the prices Okay, the way we know the prices through the lines technical analysis. We call this the lines Okay, that's what that's one of our bread and butter. That's the thing that we actually popularized that everybody's using right now And so having an edge to know that it's short bias doesn't mean to short right away You still have to know when to short Let me see I'm scrolling through this guys. Give me time. This is my first time doing youtube live All right caught up guys. I caught up all the questions So a couple more questions and we'll we'll leave it here Trust me guys.  What should I do give you $20 off?  No offense, but you know, man I don't want you to be broke learn that the reason you're paying to be mentored is not just to learn technical It's to learn experience I've lost probably millions of dollars trading to learn these things guys Alex lost talking a lot of money to to learn and so when you're paying is not just to learn strategies You're paying for the experience so that you do not have to go through this experience How do you know when to short? How do you know what indicators work? I want to tell you something.      I was down a quarter million I was down all shitload of money and then I had conviction.   You still have to use the proper technical analysis the lines that we teach you have to understand the VWAP deviation Things like that and that's why we're keeping members safe.   They can't afford to lose that They can't afford to lose but you cannot man You can follow the wrong strategy Wrong bad habits. You will not make it in trading risk management is the number one thing in trading you can be consistent 100 days in a row and then The 100th and one day That you do not cut your loss that motherfucker goes to 200 dollars a share And you are now bankrupt Happens all the time guys.   Are you guys good? Well, you guys want me to keep going up to you guys. What do you guys think? Let me keep answering questions I mean, you want me to stick around for another 10 minutes You guys want to stick around I'll take more questions for another 10 minutes I just want you guys guys. I have a you know, it's my my style. It's very different now.          It's not like a dog or something That says buy And then it'll automatically put a 20 cent stop That's the only type of hotkeys I would recommend Take take a look at that strategy guys join m.  They're all pumping numbers They're in a shitload, you know, man. I've I've I've welcomed the volume. I don't bash on them I just you know if you lose there you end up msc That's it.     I'm not here to judge I just do not do it for myself. I have a conscience. I cannot do it I make money trading already.   We're gonna give a great Uh, so what's your uh code would be tosh? Yeah, so hit up tosh and all cats and start yelling at him. I need to learn You know what so that'll be it man. If you do all cats It's gonna do tosh like you're screaming because it's very important guys The market right now is crazy If you don't know what you're doing, you will get demolished Both sides, okay So you have to learn to educate yourself. You imagine how much more money you'll make man The market is not going to be like this forever guys. So I'll see you hit up tosh and start to yell. Yeah I need help now. We'll give you a great discount today guys. All right guys Let's see you back in the room


The digital transformation has become a reality in our country and indeed we have the Digital India movement or the campaign that was started by the government of India six years ago has now come to real fruition as we see digital transformation being adopted in each and every sphere of our country. Whether it is small businesses, startups, corporates, everybody is seeing digital transformation landscape becoming part of the digital transformation landscape and today we are here talking to Mrs. Arundhati Bhattacharya who is going to share with us as to what is really the setup or this landscape getting towards and how is it that we have reached here and where are we going forward when it comes to the digital adoption in this country. So welcome Mrs. Arundhati, we warmly welcome you to the Taken Innovation Summit by Entrepreneur and we are looking forward to having your thoughts in the next few minutes about what do you feel the tech transformation and the journey is going to be all about. Certainly the pandemic while it's of course given us enough nightmares and made us sit at home but I think it's also done the work of many, many decades in just about one year where there has been natural transition for businesses to move towards digital for people to adopt digital very quickly. So what is your thought on how is the digital transformation really going and what is it that you look forward in by 2025 to be the digital landscape map of it. So first of all thank you very much and I'm extremely honoured to be on this platform today. Regarding digital transformation you know it's obviously migrated from being something that was good to have to must have and it is true that you know the work that we probably would have done over a period of three four years is actually now being done over a period of few months because this is something that I had talked about a number of years back maybe six, seven years back and I had said even at that time that you know unless you have a very strong technology backbone and a very strong digital offering there is no way that we are going to survive into the next 10, 20 years. It is especially true for India I think and it's true for India merely because you know the numbers of people that we have and the income levels of people that we have it's very difficult for us to deliver all services through the brick and mortar route and the brick and mortar route also has an issue in the sense that it doesn't leave the kind of audit trails that you wanted to leave. Now digital is something that actually enables you to deliver services at far lower cost with audit trails and with personalisation because again your demands will be very different from my demands. Your requirements will be very different from mine. Now how do you ensure that the offering that you bring is something that is suitable to you and the offering that you bring me is something that's suitable for me? This kind of personalisation, this kind of you know individual attention that is required to be given is not possible in the physical space. You can only do that for large customers, you cannot do it for the smaller customers and if you look at India, India is all about the small person. You know the much of the entire population rests on the bottom of the pyramid and if you're looking at that you know digital and technology are the only things that are going to enable us to have a more you know equal society and I give a lot of emphasis on equality on ensuring that nobody is left behind merely because the tensions that are caused in a social society where you know you have the haves and the have nots and the positions are bifurcating or you know they are becoming, the gap is becoming wider. If that happens then actually speaking that society is bound to have a lot of issues, is bound to have a lot of unrest. So for us you know if we look at it you know just imagine the area of education. I think in the area of education if you see the quality of education you get in the rural areas and the quality of education you get in the urban areas there's a big difference. However today because of digital the same quality of education can now be delivered even to the rural areas. There is of course a need for infrastructure in order to ensure that this material that is now available and capable of being delivered is actually delivered for that you need the broadband communication, you need tablets in the hand of every student but the fact of the matter is that the solution is now in our hands and we know that even as we give the right kind of education to our urban population we can replicate the same thing for the rural population that they need not really fall behind. As I said you know there is the need for this infrastructure that needs to become much better for the country and NASCARM as a body has been interacting with the government and the government has been reiterating its commitment in ensuring that this infrastructure growth is really going to be pushed and is going to pick up pace and as that happens many of the social services whether it be education, whether it be health, whether it be just you know the delivery of subsidies, the delivery of you know minimum kind of you know support systems all of these you will find will become far better in quality and quantity and therefore I think you know if you look at what has happened in the pandemic what has happened of course is extremely sad frankly speaking it's not happened in a hundred years and I hope it will not happen in the next 200 or maybe more years okay but the fact remains that you know while there has been a terrible experience that we've had on the reverse side of it there has been benefits and these are those benefits. Absolutely I think in that sense if if some good has come out of the pandemic it is the digital transformation and its adoption in the country. Now ma'am I understand that digital transformation requires a lot of technology infrastructure to go inside in an organization or in a state or in a village wherever it is going to happen and bring a change but also it's about human change and people adopting true technology in a way that they feel that it's a part of their life so particularly where do you feel in what sectors in what areas in this country do you feel that this human change has come to happen together with the technology infrastructure that is being laid out. So I think you know Eddeck has taken to it very well so for that matter is not the health services if you look at for instance the COVID app it sort of gives you the understanding of how much we have how far we have gone because the COVID app is extremely easy to register on you can get your appointments on it for your vaccinations you can get your certifications from it on vaccinations. It has a QR code so you know you take a print out of it or you just show it on your mobile phone and it can be immediately validated to see whether the thing is right or not. So you know health also has taken very well to this particular activity but if you look at all of the sectors so whether it be manufacturing whether it be retail whether it be media and communications I really can't find a single sector where you know this has really not been adopted. I have a 92 year old aunt at home and she is a person who obviously you know isn't able to go around much so the newspaper is her lifeline. Today she reads three newspapers on the net okay so something that I would not even have believed possible maybe even a few months back because you know we stopped taking physical newspapers on account of fears of infection and things like that and she couldn't stay without her morning newspaper so we taught her to read it on the computer and she doesn't know completely I mean she's quite independent about it and she reads it and in fact she finds it better because you know she can make the fonts bold enough for her to read it very comfortably. So you know the change that has happened whether it be for the youngsters or it be for the older people it's enormous and I really can't think of any particular sector that has not benefited from it it's very difficult to think of a sector that's not benefited from it even for that matter I'm on the board of a very large company and they are they have very large manufacturing manufacturing facilities now what do they do they even use things like drones now for surveillance to ensure that all of the equipment is working fine that there are no fires or no you know indications of anything going wrong similarly you know if you look at the oil and gas companies today for instance they can have entire 3d virtualizations of their platforms and those 3d virtualizations actually give you signals from ahead of time in case something is malfunctioning so that you know that particular stuff can be closed down and you can carry out all of the repairs even the repairs for that matter can be done virtually and as you know we are a software as a service company during this period when we were working we were working from home and we are continuing to work from home we have got into new negotiations closed deals actually implemented stuff and gone alive with those clients remotely everything has been done remotely so it's been an entirely new world that we have discovered that we can actually do which you know was never sort of even imagined earlier merely because there was no need for it but now that the need has occurred we find that so much more can be done and if you can do so much more remotely you can imagine what happens in the far reaches of our country if we only have the communication network going and the devices in the hands of the people so much more can be delivered to them than what has been delivered to them. Sure absolutely ma'am and given the fact that you know so many companies are adopting take on the business side small companies corporates startups you know what what is how do you envision the future of enterprise tech in India how do you see it growing in the coming years at NASCAR how are they envisioning the industry will grow as an enterprise tech in the coming years and particularly what areas I mean you know that sales force of course SAS is important but then there's so many technologies out there which are important for businesses so any any forecast that has been created towards it? No forecasts of course are there I wouldn't be able to give you the numbers straight away of the bat but you know there is going to be huge amount of of change especially on account of use of AI on use of ML that is machine learning use of robotics use of quantum computing use of things like blockchain so all of these things are stuff that are definitely going to make a very large difference to the way we do things from the way we do things now if you're looking at enterprise tech enterprise tech obviously is already you know changing pretty swiftly merely because they are now understanding that they need to be omnichannel you cannot only be either physical or digital and I think there at least in India where you have a pretty large number of people who are still you know not all that digital savvy and yet you have this younger generation that seem to be wired for digital even if they've not been taught it they can immediately you know they just sort of they are very intuitive about it right and I keep giving this example that you know if I bring a new phone home my daughter is able to find out far more functionalities on that phone than I ever will she does it within hours I take months and I still don't know those functionalities right so I've been using Google Meet now for the last 16 17 months and then just the other day she she told me why don't you whiteboard and I said how do you do it and she taught me now she nobody's taught her Google Meet right she's again learned on her own and they do it because they have some intuitive capabilities of doing it but because we have this very large proportion of the older generation like me you will not be seeing in India at least a total shift to digital right it will have to be a kind of a digital kind of a presence where there is a physical as well as a digital presence and depending upon times of when we can approach the physical for what purpose and when digital is good enough or when it's not possible to do the physical every enterprise now has understood that they need to own the customer okay owning the customer and not only the customer even on the supply side they need to have a number of channels to approach their supply side as well as the dealership side as well as the customer side having a single channel attached to any particular what should I say to any particular vertical is not going to work and that being the case enterprise is something that is really metamorphosing very very quickly as they shift towards ensuring that they are as good in the digital space as they are in the physical space so you will see you know even in retail many of the very large retailers who are totally physical now are becoming they're having their own digital channels and those some of those digital channels experiences really out of the world it's very good in the kind of experience that they are trying to give so the fact is they understand that you know you can't close down all the stores you don't need to on the other hand you also need to have this other outlet because at any point of time you will have different classes of customers different environments which you will need to continue to address in order to ensure that your business is not going through dips and ups and you know so that you have a consistent growth in your business as you would have in any normal times. Sure and ma'am you know it's with the adoption of digital transformation that is taking place we are also seeing another situation which is a tech talent crunch that is coming to happen in India there is you know and with SMEs corporates everybody sort of looking for more tech talent and of course you know enterprise tech itself looking for more tech talent there is overall a great crunch in at least in the short term that we are beginning to see how do we address that as a nation because you know now that we are stepping forward we don't want to step backward just because you know they're not enough fans who can manage it so what could be a solution to this? So you know we are already working pretty closely with the national skill development mission we are also working with various other academic institutions NASCOM has something going on the skill side where again we are partnering so most of these companies the tech companies they have their own platforms which enable skilling in a very gamified manner so it can be done from within an organization it can even be done from outside and many of these are free for people to use but it is a fact that there is a terrible tech crunch and the tech skills crunch I'll say and this is something that needs to be addressed as quickly as possible see just as China was the manufacturing sort of backbone of the world India actually can be the talent backbone for the world we have enough say close to a million people graduating as engineers every single year there is no other company no other country maybe other than China that's doing that now out of these quite a large number of them can easily be re-skilled in the right kind of technology that is required for this digitization effort to go forward also you know in respect of your own employees we have found that it is six times cheaper to re-skill an employee rather than to sort of do a lateral hire right so you know within the companies themselves there is a lot of skilling efforts that are going on so we have huge amount of enablement exercises that we do on a monthly quarterly basis to ensure that our workforce is kept up to speed at the same time we are working with the ecosystem because today you know a lot of people are hiring people who are implementing these applications they are hiring people who are actually buying these applications they are hiring because they want to have centers of excellence within their IT departments so as to be able to make the best use of the applications that they are actually putting out money for similarly you know companies like ours that's the OEMs they are hiring so there is a lot of hiring going on for research and development for engineering for even for support functions because after you've taken something you know you do need to have a support function to troubleshoot any issues that might come up and issues come up all the time you know that so you know you need people for the support function you also need people the tech industry itself is finding so much of requirement that you know you need tech people even for the selling motion so even the pre-sales piece needs technology oriented and enabled people so that you know they can actually demo to you put together demonstrations as to what this particular application can do for you so there are there are requirements at various stages of the entire cycle for tech-skilled people and there is a crunch for that there's no doubt about it but I think you know it's also a huge opportunity because none of this is really rocket science right just if you have already been a techie upgrading yourself is not a problem right even if you have not been a techie today the way the technology is happening you know there are various as I said various kinds of jobs that you can take up in the tech space and not all of them needs you to code in fact today most of the platforms have clicked not code so they are all no code no code platform right right so to that extent you know people from other areas can also get in and actually start understanding how how these whole thing this entire thing works you know me for instance even at my age I have come to work for a tech company with a Finns background I don't have a tech background at all but at the end of the day there are people that are coming from various other areas and they are coming into the technology industry because they find it interesting and because it is not all that difficult for you to at least understand the rudiments of what is being done and I would say that you know for all those people out there who feel that you know the end of the world is coming it is time for them to reskill themselves right reskilling is not such a difficult matter it can be done similarly for the youngsters who are coming up they need to be up skilled with the kind of skill you know the kind of things that we are looking for in the market and again that means that we have to work in partnership with government with industry with academia in order to get there sure and ma'am you know on a larger level how do you sort of advise a company which is getting into digital transformation mode to you know how do they plan this transformation I mean you know if one was to just sort of give them give an overview about a digital transformation roadmap for an organization which is let's say a mid-sized somewhere between a mid-sized to a large-sized organization how should they sort of do it in the right way what should be there they need to do it seamlessly because obviously they need to manage the consumer experience in a digital environment with their physical environment and then they need to sort of also budget things right you know what kind of cost for tech talent or for the actual technology proposition that they need to put in place so how is it that they should plan themselves better so you know there is a Mackenzie study and this was of course I think just as the pandemic was starting that said that almost 80% of companies had started the digital transformation but only 3% had finished it right so that shows you how difficult it is to do this transformation unless you have the right methodology for doing it now I would say one of the first things that is required is the CEO buy-in unless the C-suite is completely bought in and completely committed to this exercise it's very difficult to get it down the first and foremost is the CEO buy-in the C-suite buy-in but once you have that you've then got to extend the buy-in to the rest of the organization right because unless the rest of the organization also welcomes the change because it is a change it is a change of humongous proportions for very many organizations now unless and until you have an open mind towards the change you are then actually you know sort of pushing against the tide and that's not easy okay that's not easy to do so if you have tailwinds instead of headwinds then you know getting there becomes much faster the second thing I think that you need to understand is how digitally mature is your organization if you see the goal could be the same for everybody but you may need to climb two steps to get to the goal or you may need to climb 20 steps to get to the goal you have to be realistic about how many steps you need to climb and then you know you need to set your expectations accordingly right you will still get to the goal but instead of getting to it at one leap which a company that has two steps to climb can do if you are at the one of those companies that has 20 steps to climb you need to break it up into pieces to see what needs to get delivered at which stage and then still do the transformation but do it in a much more orderly manner and do it in a manner where your expectations are not getting constantly sort of you know belied or constantly you know not met so that you know a disappointment sets in that should not happen so when we are taking up a project it is important both for the customer and for the seller to do a very clear understanding of where the customer is and then what will be the effort required in order to get to another place right that is the third thing that is very important to do and the last but not least thing I think is the ability to really do the change management because you know the implementations of technology is not really a big challenge it can happen but once it has happened if I don't have adoption then the whole thing is wasted so I need adoption and for adoption what I need is for people not only to have the buying but also to take the trouble to understand how to do it and then get on with doing it initially it may not be very comfortable okay it never is but then subsequently once you have got over that first inertia you know as per the laws of physics the inertia is something when the car starts moving it needs maximum power to get to the first movement after that movement becomes much easier right it is the same with these transformations the first move out always needs far more effort once you are past the first block thereafter you will see things falling in place so if you are looking at what should be the roadmap for a company in order to do this they first and foremost must understand the requirements secondly they must be convinced that yes this is the right way to go about it thirdly they must create buying from the entire organization and fourth they must do change management in a proper way only when this happens then only you will find you know successful implementations and successful implementations are always joint efforts they are not efforts only by the company or the customer or only by the seller or only by the implementer they are all joint pursuits with everybody understanding that this is the goal and this is how we get to it if it is done in that manner there is no reason why there should be any disappointment sure no man that's so well put in I think it's a journey that one has to do in a digital transformation and therefore it's important that it's a together exercise instead of then first doing it and then trying people to put them on the job and getting them sort of be woven in into the system thank you so much for talking to us ma'am it's been such a wonderful session with you and you know so many ideas and so many takeaways that have come out of this session for people or organizations who are today looking to get into technology and for startups who are there and growing out there in fact subsequently we're going to move into the entrepreneur awards where we'll recognize some young startups and organizations who are doing really well so any message that you want to give? Yeah of course I think the startups are now turning out to be the backbone of the country you know I really and truly get excited at some of these startups and the ideas that they have brought to the table the amount of work that they have done in order to actually you know get that idea to be live because you know I believe that the law is very clear that is if for an entrepreneur if there is anything that can go wrong will go wrong the fact that all of these people have overcome that and they are still here and they are qualifying for these prizes it just tells me that you know these people are outstanding guys outstanding people and the thing is they are not only creating value for themselves they're creating value for the company for the country they're creating value for others you know so to a great extent I would say that you know they are really and truly contributing to the making of our nation our nation is one such where you have to be you know self-sufficient you have to be there out there getting your own thing done because there is not too much of a support system to enable you to do it the fact that these guys have been able to really you know still rectify the ideas they had and put the business on the ground they need huge congratulations for it so my congratulations to all of the people who actually won the prizes but also to the people who competed for them it's important to compete and even they are creating great value in the ecosystem though they may not be actually recognized by prices over here but they are recognized by society as doing something which is really very important so my best very best wishes to all of them. Thank you very much ma'am and it's been wonderful speaking to you here today. Thank you.


Welcome. Aloha from Honolulu. Welcome. Thanks all of you here in Hawaii on the mainland wherever you may be for joining us. Good afternoon, good morning, whatever time it may be for you. These are how pre-recorded and streamed later and then put on YouTube and Vimeo and available for viewing at your convenience. And we hope you'll do that and share these. And today we have with us our birthday girl, Judge Sandra Sims, retired from the bench of the state of Hawaii, well-known author and like the rest of our panel, very active in community service in many respects, just back from a really moving and intense trip to the mainland, to the south and other areas. We have Rebecca Radlev in Atlanta or near to it. And Rebecca has just watched her son graduate from college. So this is a really memorial time and week. Louise Ng, partner at Dentons, winner of many awards this year, including from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. And David Larson, chair of the American Bar Association's dispute resolution section, professor at Mitchell Hamlin in St. Paul. And so today, folks, we thought we'd talk a little bit about leaders and leadership. What we need, what may be missing, what might help us the most. And as our birthday girl, Sandra, Judge, you want to start us off? What would you look for in leadership? And are there people out there who exhibit some of the things you're looking for in leaders now for these times? That's actually kind of a tough question to ask in these times, but the things that appeal to, that impress me the most are the ability to empathize with people and certainly to have some integrity and character to begin with. Those don't seem to be all the qualities that we're seeing in people who are at least professing to be leaders at this one. That's just my take on it right now.  You certainly check in the work that you're doing in bringing so many issues to the forefront in this community and around the nation and bringing together folks that you encounter to discuss these issues. That's a component of leadership, which is certainly going to your character and integrity, but there are others. Rebecca, your thoughts? Are there people out there now who have some of those really valuable qualities and attributes? There are still some. Because the world is evolving in a different space now because of COVID and all the other issues that we are dealing with and that our next generation is dealing with, I think there are some. We are seeing servant leaders rise because of the changes that we're seeing, but also what we're seeing, I was thinking, as Judge Sims was talking, we're also seeing audacity and allyship. I was explaining and published to say that ally is a verb in the dictionary. It's a noun, but when actually in practice it's a verb, but you have to be uncomfortable to be an ally. Leading efforts in allyship, it can be tough because it's unpopular work, but if you are not uncomfortable, you are not an ally. So you want to tell us a little bit more about what you mean by servant leadership? And Louise, I know you have some thoughts on that as well. Yes. By servant leadership, I'm referring to the ability and the willingness to put others first and to serve where you see a need without having to be asked to step up and it's somewhat self-sacrificing, but it's being a good steward of the talents that you've been given and being willing to share your gifts for the good of all. Louise, your thoughts? I think that was beautifully said, Rebecca, and I think that we're currently seeing some really bad examples of leadership that hopefully will lead us to a place of improving leadership. I also think that as we get more diverse with the profile of our leaders, more women, people of color, the next generation, whatever that we're seeing, a different model. And I agree with what Rebecca and Sandra said about maybe qualities coming out that maybe weren't so important or overlooked or overlooked before, such as the empathy, the emotional EQ, as well as being able to balance that EQ and being able to motivate people, but also knowing when you need to lead and set the role and set the path for people and kind of let them know what your mission and goal is. But I also think that the idea that we should be moving away from an autocratic, I know everything top down style of leadership to one that is more inclusive and, as you say, recognizes the value not just of the person on top, but the people that enabled them to get there and are supporting their work. Collaborative leadership, yes. And this is a group of four people who all of whom have faced, overcome, worked with, and navigated their way through exceptional challenges to get to the leadership positions, the respect, the admiration that you've earned. David, what worked for you in becoming a leader as you have in the ABA section of dispute resolution? We're going to get to that question. I just want to congratulate Judge Sims on her 39th birthday. I'm actually a graduate of Jack Betty Juter High School, if you remember him, and we were the 30-liners, was our team. So 39 is a number that I'll always remember. So congratulations. The other thing I wanted to say, Chuck, just to pick up on that earlier question about the characteristics of leaders, I got to put courage in there. Right now, I'm watching Liz Cheney on a literal comic-cosm. And the phrase, nation before self comes to mind that this is somebody putting nation before self. She is just being attacked ferociously by her party for what she's doing, but it's clear. She's putting the Constitution and the nation above herself, and she's just unflappable. And even though, historically and traditionally, I don't really agree with medieval policies, I certainly admire her for what she's doing now. I think she's just doing wonderful things. I think just in terms of overcoming obstacles, it takes a certain persistence, dedication and optimism that you really just have to not to be too naive, but I think you have to be a little bit of a glass half full person sometimes, that even though things are looking dark, sometimes you have to focus on the positives. And that's, I think, to give you strength in darker times. That's always been helpful to me when I've had some of the challenges I've faced. So circling around, are there people out there now who are exhibiting the kinds of character, conscience, courage and charisma that might offer us some hope for future leadership? Rebecca, any examples? I'm trying to think of an example. I'm drawing a blank. I started in my mind since David gave us the great example of Liz Cheney. I was trying to think of who who else in our government I'd like to name that immediately comes to mind. Ranking, Jamie Rankin. Yeah, and I'll also name that senator from, I forget whether he's a state rep or senator from Illinois. Yes, his family has turned on him, because he's taken a stand to do what's right. What's right for the country, what's right for humanity, for humankind. There are some members of his family who have turned against him. That's uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah. There was a, I think it was on one of the late night shows, they contrasted Liz Cheney talking in the prior House hearing about Ukraine and really putting down the Ukraine hearings contrasting to what she's doing now. It shows how fluid the situation can be, where you may totally disagree with her approach and the first time. Then when something like the insurrection happens, it really shows, it draws the line between people who are showing up with metal and principle versus those who go along for expedience and trying to win their party's vote. So I agree with David. Yeah, that's, you know, she deserves this. And it's interesting, you know, watching her go through this and remembering a time when, you know, strong leadership could, what did mean that you stood up for the principle of people, we didn't have to agree with you, but we could respect what you stood for. Because we knew that there was some integrity to that position. And I think that's kind of what we're seeing with her. There's so much of her other points of view that I can't agree, but I have a tremendous respect for her integrity and standing up. And that's another piece that we really don't see a great deal of in these times as we once did. This trip I was just on kind of brought to mind another person who I thought, Brian Stevenson, who, you know, headed up that Equal Justice Initiative, and been so involved in working in the South with, you know, with wrongfully convicted folks throughout time. And the work that he's done is certainly not very popular now in many circles. But it is such a necessary work in order for us to really kind of come together at some point. I think he still believes that we can come together as a nation and find peace. Otherwise, he wouldn't be doing this. And he's doing in the middle of Montgomery, Alabama of all places.   And that takes courage in certainly in this state and a state's tremendous courage and a tremendous amount of optimism. David, you alluded to that. We talked about you have to still sort of see things as half full that there is the possibility of change. And obviously going through what I saw at the museum there, it is very, very easy to just sort of put your head down and say, this is a lost cause. We're not going to get through this. But for this leader to just say, we can do this, I'm going to keep pushing and I'm going to keep talking. I'm going to keep sharing and I'm going to keep showing this to you. There has to be this perspective that it's possible. I guess we saw that in, you know, certainly the clearest example that is, you know, Nelson Mandela.  Yeah, I think in Hawaii, and that's a really good point, Sandra, and, you know, sort of the persistence to get through and keep your eye on the prize. And I'm thinking in Hawaii of two, maybe three people based on a film I saw about women's sports at the UH and how it developed with Donis Thompson as well as Patsy Mink. Both of whom were kind of, you know, maybe polarizing characters during their time. They were very strong women, but their legacy, you know, their focus on just women's rights and equality is really something that, you know, we hold up today. The quotes they have from Patsy Mink on her statue in front of the State Library are beautiful. And Maisie Hirono is another one who, you know, has long been underestimated, but during the Trump years just said, you know, I need to speak out and we changed her approach and is saying what needs to be said. And as we talk about leaders and what qualities we think are important for leaders and we'll go down with integrity and honesty. And then we look at former President Trump and we say that way to edit. So I'm putting X's of all these desirable characteristics, then you have to ask the question, is that how is he maintaining so much power? When we have our list of ideal characteristics, and we're X-ing out so many of them, how is this happening? It's just a, I think, a really important question. And, you know, it goes to kind of the future of the Republican Party if there is one. But I think it is something worth discussing is how is it possible that this man is retaining as much influence as he is even now? When we're learning his role in January 6th, there are still people saying that he's our guy, he should be the nominee in 2024. I mean, I'll just put it out there. How do you, why do you think that's happening? Yeah, well, we talked about emotional intelligence. And, you know, it's important, but I think he has great emotional intelligence.  And he was a master at tapping into that. And, you know, I think that's one explanation for his success. He has, he does have great emotional intelligence in kind of a very dark way. And he was able to kind of harness that. And I think that's one reason why he retains that kind of influence that, that people are falling behind him for all the worst reasons of humanity. Well, I have a feeling that his supporters would probably come up with a different list on what leadership means. I have heard some people say that, you know, what seems to appeal to folks about Trump is this strong man idea, you know, you need strength to lead. He's kind of the qualities that lead to, you know, autocrats like Putin and Hitler and Mussolini, which kind of leads him to the other side of, you know, I'm still trying to get my arms around why Biden's approval ratings are so low because I keep thinking, okay, so, you know, people don't approve of him. I mean, did you just remember who was president before that? You know, should we, you know, also value the fact that he was able to win and hopefully change many of the directions of the country? Yeah, I'm still trying to unpack why there's that. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not getting this. And sometimes I'm wondering if, if, if, if I'm that out of touch, or if, or if, you know, this whole notion of how we fold and how we get that information is now kind of flawed and maybe not as valuable or as, as useful as it once was. But I go back to, to Rebecca's point of a fear. I think there's a, there's a fear as well among, there has to be a fear among some of the powers that you're going to lose some of the things that we courageous people that we've talked about, who've made these changes, who've gone out, you know, you know, push for change. Like, like Patty was a great example, because during her time, she was, people hate, I mean, she was not, well, among those who, us who cared about what she was doing, but in, in, in Congress and the nation and even some places here, people didn't like the things that she, she was pushing too hard for many people. And so we see that when people are really, really, really pushing her, there's that fear response that says, you're going to take something away from, particularly in the area of Title IX sports, you know, my goodness gracious, the whole, all of college sports just almost railed against her. It's like, you can't do this because we're going to have to, you know, shut down the football team. Come on, please. But, but still she persisted. I mean, I guess that's the quote is on her statue too. She persisted. And people who are in that position of, or persist, they do strike fear among those who feel that they may lose out. And then you have a Trump to come along. And like you say, they tap into that fear and bring it to the forefront. I, I, I, there's no, I can't, I can't think of any other possible way to explain that.  But, and that was a good thing. I mean, in a good way, I don't mean that bad, certainly. And then, you know, to think that there was this sort of maybe there was this sort of backlash, like, oh my goodness, what's happening? Is this, is this a harbinger of the future that we're going to have all this diversity? Well, we're living in this, we're living in this era of partisan loyalty, where we have people seeing their whole worldview is shaped by their partisan loyalty, and their ability, you know, their willingness to accept things as facts, as shaped by their partisan loyalty. So that's, that is kind of frightening. How are we going to shake people out of that? That, you know, you just don't fall into line with either CNN or Fox News. How can you come back and have more of a, you know, more of a balanced view? And in terms of that approval rating, you know, is there have we lost appreciation for the fact that it's a, you know, the executive can only do so many things that there is a, there is a Senate that you have to get through, that there's a Supreme Court that can make decisions, the President over has no control over that. So, you know, I think a lot of things are put on President Biden's shoulders over which he has no control, and the Republicans are more than ready to attribute, you know, the responsibility for everything to him.  I'm not Biden's fault. So, you know, this, that one of the dangers of that partisan view is this unwillingness to take a more holistic view and think about what could be the possible causes beyond maybe the President of the United States. And let's think a little more globally. And you might find some global solutions. But I agree with everything I've heard. And the other thing I'll add while we're thinking together, because obviously none of us have the answers, if we did, maybe, yeah, we wouldn't need this job. Exactly. But like-minded people have been emboldened. And so, and we know that even in our personal lives, people have very short memories. People have short memories and fear can be a positive and or negative motivator. So, you know, all of the things that you all have stated, I think, apply. And it's human nature to be fickle if we go back all the way to Bible story. Moses got Israelites out of Egypt. And what did they do? Yeah, you know, they got away from the Pharaoh if you believe that story.  You just can't please them. It took them 40 years to make a two-day journey. The journey to the Promised Land really two days, but it took them 40 years. And so, and the reason is you can't get towards freedom. You can't move towards freedom with, you know, a mentality and bondage.  Do we see, can we name anybody that we think can bring the nation together and could be a viable candidate for our next presidential election? Can we think of any names that we would say, boy, I hope outside of Michelle Obama, who I wish would be a candidate? Who has told us she and has no intention of running? I know, which is just so bad. Yeah, the side of the day, but is that if we could think of those persons that are being that viable given the climate that we're in and the one you just referred to, who would want to take that role? Who would want to do that? I mean, we could, we could think of those. So why would you subject yourself, your family, your friends, and that's the, and that's the really kind of dangerous part of it now is that this leadership vacuum is so, it's so vast, it's hard to even bring in those people that we say have those qualities. They're not willing to necessarily do that unless you're, you know, kind of pushed against the wall, like Liz Cheney is, and you're in a position where you got to do it. On your product, some really important insights, the fear approach and attack, it depends on cultivating a bias that is really dehumanizing to a whole sector of people who at least according to our beliefs should be equally treated as human as everyone else. And you've also pointed out that what we might call inspiring resiliency may be one of the elements that enables people to survive that and to even overcome it. Are there people out there like Stacey Abrams or Cory Booker or others who are exhibiting the kinds of strength that might offer a charismatic alternative to that fear and bias, fear and loathing approach? Well, you named a couple. I'm from Minnesota, and I was a backer of Amy Klobuchar. I still think she would be a great candidate, but as Sondra was saying, you're going to get attacked, and she was attacked. It's for one thing that happened. It really wasn't something she did. It happened in a prosecutor's office when she was ahead of it. It wasn't her doing it, but nonetheless was attacked again ferociously. So I don't know if she would even be willing to do it again. I think of stuff like some of our city leaders, because I think those that are mayors of large cities, you're probably in a good position to just sort of get more. I was thinking of like a Gavin Newsom or something, but then again, it's San Francisco. And so while he may have these qualities that we think of in terms of leadership, is that going to translate to some Midwestern towns? Although I did really appreciate him deputizing people to bring lawsuits for violations of the gun control in response to, yeah. Legal model, that was just pretty cool. It's like, okay, this is what you want to do. Okay, we can do that. Yeah, I loved it. I thought it was great. And what about another factor that the media doesn't even address and we never see in campaign is we know that leadership really has to be an effective, collaborative, collective team exercise. And we never hear candidates for leadership talk about what kind of teams they might offer, what kind of teams they might put together. So maybe one of the answers is find those people with inspiring resilience, courage, character, conscience, and charisma, bring those together and present them as a team and move away from partisanship in the team building to the leadership qualities in the team building. People have the courage. Because, oh, sorry, go ahead, David. I'd say people have the courage to trust other people. You know, in that sense that if you're going to be a true collaborator, you have to be willing to trust other people. And if you do that, they'll trust you. Yes. Which is the other mark of a good leader to begin with, is assembling those people that you can work together with and having that trust between them. And so that's another piece of it, too. Exactly. Now, who are they and who are these people that we can pull together and trust? That is a hard question. I can think of leaders nationally, state or local that have really assembled the effective inspiring teams. That's been a while. It's been a while. Louise, I started talking the same time as you. I'm sorry. I was just thinking of the fact that, you know, we're very used to thinking of a leader, you know, sort of one person leading. And that's been our model through, well, monarchies, presidencies, and the like. And I think, you know, it's important to have that figurehead. But what, you know, what we're learning is that it's the people around them, as you say, it's the ability to collaborate and how strong your team is that also helps form that leader or makes that person effective. And, you know, maybe we need to rethink of leadership being not just about one leader, but as you say, David, you know, a collaborative approach, maybe we will not, we won't get away from that model of wanting to focus on one person as sort of being the person who envisions and can articulate the mission.  The great point, because yeah, usually a leader is also a great manager. It's not necessarily the other way around. But if you have the right people around you and you can manage their talents, then you can be very effective as a leader. Yeah. Hey, and in our last minute, some final thoughts. Leadership. What's the direction we really need to see? I'm gonna stay with courage. Integrity. Persistence. It's a marathon. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I do agree with optimism. Yeah. And maybe all of those and the patience, persistence, and resilience of those who have managed to do that, the Mandela's, the Gandhi's, and those leaders historically. Thank you for joining us today. Yeah, go ahead, Luis. I have to say, using your powers for good, not evil, you know, having EQ.  Absolutely. Yeah. And you guys have all done that. That's what you do. That's what you guys all do. It's cool. Come back and join us again in a couple of weeks. We will explore more of the things that help will provoke thoughts and bring people together. Take care. Have a good week and a good weekend and happy birthday, Sandra. Thank you. Thanks, Chuck, for bringing us together. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. Today what we have is something I would say resembles more of a rant than anything else and it has to do with every One Piece fan's favorite topic, the Toei anime adaptation. Now I want to make it clear that I am not here to bash the anime. Hating on the anime is a very very easy thing to do and it's quite a popular practice amongst the One Piece fan base. But my goal here today is very simple and it's to make you think critically about the One Piece anime through one very basic rule of storytelling. A lot of people will pan the anime for a wide variety of reasons from pacing to filler to just plain horrible aesthetic quality. I'm not interested in any of that here today. My criteria is much more basic. Here is the one rule of storytelling that we are going to examine. Do not tell your audience something they already know. Every shot of every scene should tell the viewer something new about the story, a character, a location, a concept, anything so long as it is new information to the viewer. And that consistent intake of new information is what makes watching film and television so compelling. It's a journey and a lot of the time when people complain about poor pacing and stuff like that, it's because they're not taking in new information at every available opportunity. And to examine how the One Piece anime fell so spectacularly in regards to this rule, I am going to analyze episode 868, a feature that was so widely praised by the fan base. And I'm taking the time to analyze this recent episode recent as in at the time of this recording because I've gotten a lot of comments on various videos of mine saying that the anime has improved significantly since the days of Dress Rosa. And while that may be true, it's still a failure of storytelling. And to show you why, let's get into episode 868 with the mantra in mind of never telling your audience something they already know. Every time this rule is broken, I will be adding time to this here filler clock, according to how much of our time was wasted by conveying information we already knew. So let's begin. First up, we have the Toei logo. It goes on for about 10 seconds and yeah, whatever. I'm not going to fault them for putting their logo at the beginning of a show, even if it is a bit long. Next up is the Super Powers opening, a song that I've grown to greatly enjoy. However, the opening is 2 minutes and 30 seconds. That is far, far too long. Considering most anime intros it at about 90 seconds. If you don't like Super Powers, this is torturous. And even if you do, look, it's taking a whole minute of content away from your episode, which is exactly what it's designed to do, so it's going on the clock. Moving on, we then launch into about 50 seconds of recap. And now that's not too bad at all compared to what we've seen in the series in the past. There are legitimately episodes out there with anywhere between 5 to 7 minutes of recap. So 868 is looking all right in comparison. That is until you remember that recap is not needed at all, and the prime offender of the one rule we're looking at. It gives us information that we already know. At this point, on top of the Toei slide card and the Super Powers opening, this episode has now run for a whole 3 minutes and 30 seconds, none of which has conveyed any new information to the viewer and has essentially wasted their time. Finally starting the actual episode, we have 1 minute and 16 seconds, cutting back and forth between Luffy struggling to get up after being hit by Katakuri Strike and Flampe laughing maniacally with her gaggle of troops. This cut happens 5 times over this minute and 16 seconds. We watch Luffy struggle, then we cut to Flampe mocking him. Then we cut back to Luffy struggling and back to Flampe mocking. 5 times in a row, the bit of Katakuri inserted for flavour. That is 4 more times than we needed to convey the necessary information, and in fact in the manga this entire sequence was dealt with in 3 panels, one of which was just Katakuri staring quizzically. So given that the anime told us the exact same information 4 times more than we needed, that's almost 61 seconds of wasted time during the sequence. We then begin a sequence of Katakuri putting these events together and realizing that Flampe is behind everything. And this portion here takes 14 seconds of our lives away to convey something that we as the audience already know. We do not need to see these inner workings of Katakuri's mind, flashing back to an event that we saw twice in the previous episode, especially when he is quite literally about to state everything anyway. But before we get to that, Katakuri then begins a very slow walk to Flampe. As we proceed to waste a further 30 seconds dwelling on Flampe's infatuation with her big brother, something that has been made exceptionally clear at this point. Katakuri then says word for word what is in the manga in regards to what happened with the blowgun, which is accompanied by what I would describe as technical filler. As we continue to see flashback sequences of Luffy being hit, and while in the manga there was no such flashbacks, I think this is a rare example of the anime filling time in a constructive manner, because it is a nice sequence to watch Katakuri going through these things, but at the same time we are now flashing back to a sequence that we have seen a total of four times in the past two episodes, so it certainly counts as information we already know, which takes up half the sequence, so half of the total 59 seconds will be added to the clock.  The reason why this portion stands apart though is because it actively escalates Flampe's infatuation with Katakuri, so it does present new information, it just doesn't seem like it because by this point in the episode the audience is Flampe fatigued. Katakuri then stabs himself pretty good, but it takes a whole 9 seconds from him grasping his Trident to actually committing the action, and you might think I'm being really petty by pointing that out, but it is just filled with information we already know. There are several shots of the Trident being pointed at his body, as well as a cut to the exact same shot of Flampe and her cronies just prior to this, and I mean this could have been a beautiful and fluid 5 second motion at most, but instead we had to add roughly 4 seconds of nothing to benefit the sequence. And a lot of people might make the argument know it's to build tension, but it actually does the exact opposite. The whole point of this scene in the manga was a shocking reveal that Katakuri would stab himself. And this effect just doesn't happen in the anime because everything happens so slowly that the audience puts together what's happening before they actually see it and you do not want that in a visual medium.  I think this could have been a tiny bit faster, but overall very well done. The only criticism here is a section where Katakuri spends 3 seconds on screen just breathing heavily, like so… before speaking. Now this is a Toei trademark, they absolutely love a nice breathing shot whether it be panning or still, and 3 seconds might sound like I'm being extremely nitpicky, but let me ask you, what exactly is the point of showing us these 3 seconds? Is it to convey that Katakuri is now in an extreme amount of pain? Well, we already knew that. Because we just had a brilliant sequence that gave us that information and now we're wasting 3 more seconds of an episode dwelling on it rather than just moving on with Katakuri's line. Not only that, but Toei would go on to show us a still shot of Katakuri breathing 2 more times shortly after. No dialogue over the top, no information of any kind, just a combined 5 seconds of nothing new. And Toei does this a lot. Over the course of hundreds of episodes I can't even begin to imagine how much of our time has been wasted watching characters breathe. So Flampe berates Katakuri for not being her ideal, says he looks like a pelican eels, bits in his face etc and we get a brief Katakuri flashback, all of which is fine. It could be done a little faster once again, but hey, at least every shot is continuing to tell the story rather than dwelling on it. But Katakuri then walks away and we probably have the billionth shot of the episode of Luffy struggling to stay upright and oh yes, breathing heavily. 13 whole seconds of it, nothing new to the audience, so when the clock goes. Katakuri then walks towards Luffy while Flampe's dude bras swamp him like paparazzi. Great, except that we keep cutting back and forth between Katakuri and the paparazzi for a whole 11 seconds after the audience has well and truly got the idea of what's happening. And that does keep happening for a while afterwards, but luckily Flampe's monologue over the top does start providing new information, so I'm happy with that. Katakuri finishes walking over to Luffy, an endeavour that saw several still shots of them looking at one another, but I'll give the anime the benefit of the doubt here and say that we could interpret this as the two of them continuing to size each other up. However once Katakuri stops, this stare down just continues for 13 more seconds, nothing new happening whatsoever, just padding. And now finally we get to the moment that everyone went mad for when Katakuri and Luffy both released their conquerous Haki proceeding to completely wreck the mirror world as well as Flampe's forces. I personally think that it does go on for a bit too long, but hey we can take some time to indulge in this moment because it's taken an awfully long time to get here, but before it seems like it's done we have a break. 14 seconds of break and we're going to count it because it provides nothing new to us, just bounty posters of two straw hats who aren't even in the whole Cake Island arc. Back from the break and we are now elsewhere, Bage and the firetank pirates are transporting the cake, talking plants etc, all as well until we get to a painfully lingering shot of Big Mom who eventually starts spouting her catchphrase, Weddingoo Cakey, and tells of how desperately she wants to eat it several times. And now if there's anybody out there who believes a Big Mom wanting to eat the wedding cake as new information at this point, then just get out. In any case this little pit stop devoid of content takes 40 seconds to complete. Bage and Chiffon strategize a bit more and they have a lovely moment where Bage just shows how much he cares for her, more good stuff loving it. Cutting to the straw hats bought the sunny and this scene didn't actually happen in the manga, but it is giving us something new at least by showing us that Sanji is leaving the sunny with pudding. But there is a total of 14 seconds spent on puddings infatuation with Sanji which is nothing new at all. And granted this sort of thing happened a lot in the manga as well and I very much criticized it there too, but when it's happening and what is already for all intents and purposes filler content, it's getting added to the clock because it adds nothing new. Then Carrots awake again, we discuss the soolong stuff a bit, and then Smoothie attacks the sunny. And here is probably the most frustrating sequence of the entire episode purely in terms of conveying new information. So we initially see Smoothie strike and then Jinbei steers the ship to dodge. That one is fine. But we go on to see her strike in exactly the same way three more times. And we see Jinbei dodge in the exact same way three more times. 22 seconds of utterly pointless action. Smoothie then powers up a super strike and fires it. That's fine. What's not fine is wasting eight seconds on showing how Smoothie powers up her attacks once again. And then another 10 seconds with Jinbei telling the straw hats that he's counting on them for their directions. After that's exactly what he's already been doing for those previous three unnecessary strikes. The sunny makes a dramatic escape and we are now back in the mirror world in the aftermath of the conqueror's hockey clash. From here there are a total of four slowly panning shots that go over knocked out enemies. Beyond the first shot do you know how many of them give us new information? One actually, which shows us that Flampe is also knocked out. But we did waste eight seconds on those other two shots which provided us with nothing. Luffy and Katakuri have a chat. Katakuri slowly and seductively removes his jacket and things are about to get serious. We then engage in another trademark towing staring battle for a should you not 36 seconds. There's a bunch of cuts from close up Katakuri to close up Luffy to full body Katakuri to full body Luffy and so on and so forth. None of it provides us with anything. After those 36 awkward seconds Luffy and Katakuri finally put their fists up to fight and they begin running towards each other. But it's not enough to show us two separate shots of them each beginning to run because after Katakuri's shot we need another four seconds of Luffy running followed by quick cuts of them both running at each other for three seconds until we finally come to something. Which is a nice punch and once again while I really hate how slowly everything happens here that isn't the point of the video and at least you know something's happening. Sadly after Luffy gets punched we have what feels like being frozen in time as we cut to a still of Katakuri then we get Luffy continuing to be punched exactly as we knew it and look at this Katakuri again. We know Luffy got punched and we know Katakuri did it. However for some reason we spend the next 22 seconds re-showing us these two ideas before we reach the next point of substance which is Luffy punching Katakuri and then we get the old to be continued so stop the clock we've landed on 7 minutes and 54 seconds of content that we simply did not need. To put this into full perspective the runtime of episode 868 is 23 minutes and 50 seconds. Onto that 7 minutes and 54 seconds we are going to add the standard 90 seconds of anime opening that I didn't count earlier the 10 second to a credit sequence and the 40 seconds of to be continued and previews for a total of 10 minutes and 14 seconds. That is roughly 43% of the episode spent not really doing anything. Some episodes have more of this dead time some have less not many though I actually do feel like episode 868 was quite good in comparison to a lot of them but even if we take this as the best case scenario in the last 100 episodes of One Piece you will have spent just over 17 hours of your life in anime purgatory not actually engaging in the show itself but waiting for the show to parcel out some more information to you and that's just a mere 100 episodes I mean we were like halfway through zoe 100 episodes ago just trying to quantify that into the entirety of the series is mind boggling the amount of days of their lives that loyal viewers have spent giving to this series the makers of which want nothing but to generate as much money from it as possible no matter what the cost is disheartening to say the least and an absolute disgrace at worst and once again I just want to remind you that I haven't even taken into consideration shots that present new information and just take far too long to do it if I did then this number would grow exponentially One Piece is in a terrible terrible place right now it's not the fault of the animators or the writers or the staff in general it's the fault of the decision makers who mandate that a new episode of One Piece has to be produced every week for the sake of their sponsors viewer enjoyment does not come into the equation toei animation is a leech sucking everything it can from the One Piece IP so please just stop defending them if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the grand line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible also do check out my teespring store if you're interested in shirts hoodies and other miscellaneous items with the proceeds going directly to support the channel as well and if you'd like to join the fun then do head over to my discord server where a wide array of shenanigans takes place on a daily basis and finally please do comment with your thoughts on the One Piece anime adaptation this has been the grand line review and i'll see you next time