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Dave Chu

EMBA

Knowledge World Ecologist

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1260 Nyon
Switzerland

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Personal information

Wants

Business opportunities, acquire, act on, and share knowledge, and contribute to common good.
Haves

Strategic vision and pragmatic realization, integrating people, technology, and information in knowledge processes, international and global experience, appreciation of multiple cultures.
Interests

Improve my French, learn Spanish, leadership, knowledge management, learning organization, philosophy, strategic planning, emerging technologies, technology transfer, professional networking, Asian community networking, international travel, wines, skiing
Organizations

IMF Staff & Alumni, Mensa, Beta Gamma Sigma, GLE, KM Cluster, UCLA Varsity Club, Claremont Graduate University Alumni Association, Drucker Alumni Association, Top Executives Net, Alumni Associations of the University of California, Global Worker, Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network, New York Academy of Sciences, 80-20 Initiative, America Center of Geneva Association.
Groups

Professional experience (16 years, 7 months)

Jun 2005 - present
(7 years)

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Jun 2002 - Jun 2006
(4 years, 1 month)

Sr. IT Officer

International Monetary Fund, http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

Industry: International Affairs
Feb 2001 - Jun 2002
(1 year, 5 months)

Directeur GMBH, Corporate VP/CIO

Effecta Technologies GMBH

Industry: Biotechnology
Nov 1995 - Jan 2001
(5 years, 3 months)

Global Head, Consumer Health, Knowledge and Collaboration Technologies

Novartis

Industry: Medicinal Products

Employment status

Freelancer

Educational background

Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

Drucker School of Management
Corporate Management, EMBA

Leadership and strategy
University of Southern California
Electrical Engineering, MS

Power Systems
University of California Los Angeles
System Science, BS

Systems, computing, electronics

Languages

English (First language), Chinese (Fluent), French (Good knowledge)

About me

Introduction: David Lawrence Chu [朱大昕]

In life as well as in business, one must have a mission. My mission for life is, How may I contribute to the success of humanity? I joined the International Monetary Fund on this mission and I took early retirement from it because I found it inadequately inefficient in executing its own mission. And, it was not alone as there has always been some missing key elements in every organization in which I belonged, including Novartis.

Having been educated in the Western tradition, I noted its individual-centered approach. And, having been raised in the Chinese culture, I noted the stress on collective action. I searched for the golden mean and the middle path that would integrate West and East. I found many hints in the opera of Peter F. Drucker's writings and that led me to the Drucker and Ito School of Management in Claremont, California, where I obtained an EMBA.

At a personal level, I learned from my father that I would be part of the 26th "土" generation descendants of 朱熹, from 菱湖, 浙江. I have lived in many parts of the US and in the Suisse Romande. 我的中文還可以. Et, je ne parle pas encore le francaise couramment. I've visited most of Europe and even Saudi Arabia, but I have only visited China twice.

Finally, I was so full of it, hubris of having achieved something in knowledge management and the learning organization in the 1990's, before it was in vogue, until I found out that Drucker had written about the knowledge worker in the 1950's.

As Confucius stated, some two and half millennia ago, I see three people ahead, and I see my teacher. We are all students and teachers to each other. Let us learn and teach, together.

Dave

http://knowledgeaction.blogspot.com/

Contacts

Roman Retzbach, Ramil Cueto, Min(敏) Cao(曹), Michael Feng

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