“Know how to do” - the keyword for the new term

On the eve of the 1st Congress of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, term 2025 - 2030, in an interview with Saigon Giai Phong Newspaper, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang emphasized: "I hope that every cadre and party member of the city must truly imbue the motto of daring to think, knowing how to do and daring to take responsibility."

In that motto, the phrase “know how to do” has a profound meaning. If “dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility” demonstrates courage and dedication, then “know how to do” is the condition that guarantees that dedication goes in the right direction, hits the target, and achieves real results. Because to “know how to do”, cadres need to have sufficient knowledge, thinking, skills and methods, especially in the new development context - when the orientations and strategies of Ho Chi Minh City require multidisciplinary thinking, deep expertise and global access.

“Knowing how to do” is not only a criterion for advisory and policy-making groups, but also a criterion for selecting, retaining, and developing personnel in the entire management system. At the executive level, when “real authority” is given, officials must demonstrate the ability to operate and make effective decisions, based on knowledge and practical understanding.

In the context of Ho Chi Minh City expanding its integration and aiming for a global urban status, this requirement becomes even more urgent. “Know-how” officials not only need to be good at their profession but also need to be fluent in foreign languages and have the capacity to participate in negotiations with international partners.

For example, with the Hyperscale Data Center project worth about 2 billion USD in phase 1 and the ability to expand to 6 billion USD, the person assigned the task must be able to understand and handle cross-disciplinary issues: electricity, telecommunications, cyber security, data science , cloud computing, data regulations and technology infrastructure. Negotiating, planning policies and laws with global corporations cannot rely solely on pure administrative management thinking, but requires a real "know-how" ability - understanding the job, being proficient in the profession, knowing how to coordinate and know how to anticipate.

Similarly, in the strategy of forming a Free Trade Zone - a model that helped Dubai, Singapore or Shanghai become leading economic centers - Ho Chi Minh City is researching the development of a Free Trade Zone associated with Cai Mep Ha Port in the period of 2025-2030. This area has all the conditions to become a center of green logistics, digital economy, circular economy, sustainable economy and international cargo transit port. However, to implement it, policymakers cannot stop at understanding land, infrastructure, and tariffs, but need a multi-sector integrated vision - from trade, finance, technology to environmental protection and international standards.

Thus, from an individual who “knows how to do” to a collective that agrees and protects what “knows how to do”, the role of the leader becomes increasingly important. They must have the capacity, ethics and vision to recognize, encourage and protect the factors that know how to do, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility.

From that reality, it is necessary to form a "market" that values and rewards "know-how", coupled with a system of training, retraining and upgrading of staff capacity in the direction of practical learning and practice, meeting the requirements of comprehensive innovation.

With just two words “know how to do”, if placed in the right position and spread in the leadership and management culture, Ho Chi Minh City can completely restructure the thinking habits, training system and human resource utilization mechanism. That is the sufficient condition for the motto “dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility” to truly become the driving force for innovation - creating real, sustainable effectiveness and development confidence for the new term.

NGUYEN QUAN CAT

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/biet-lam-tu-khoa-cho-nhiem-ky-moi-post818064.html