Stan Shih Visits Japan to Launch New WangDao White Paper, Advocating for Taiwan's Global Thought Leadership

To advocate for Taiwan's intellectual voice on the global stage, Acer Group founder Stan Shih visited Japan today to deliver a speech and launch the New WangDao White Paper in Chinese, English, and Japanese, aiming to promote the New WangDao initiative internationally.

Through his Chi-Yun Foundation, Shih released a press statement emphasizing that true leadership lies in balancing explicit and implicit benefits to create sustainable total value. Truly great leaders, he stated, are those who can generate long-term total value.

Today, Shih attended the 'Global Innovation Reimagined Conference: AI Resilience,' an international AI forum hosted by the Asia-Pacific Resilience Research Foundation in Tokyo. During the event, he shared his New WangDao vision and officially launched the trilingual white paper. He will deliver additional speeches to Japanese corporate leaders and alumni of Thunderbird School of Global Management on the 18th and 19th.

Shih positioned New WangDao as the leadership philosophy for the 21st century. He noted that humanity faces major challenges, including the rise of AI, geopolitical realignment, climate change, aging populations, and capitalist imbalances. The industrial-era management model, centered on efficiency and competition, is increasingly inadequate for addressing future demands for sustainability, trust, co-prosperity, and long-term value.

In response, Shih introduced 'New WangDao'—a 21st-century leadership philosophy integrating Eastern wisdom, modern management, sustainable development, and human-centric values in the AI era. The core principles of New WangDao are value creation, balanced interests, and sustainable development.

Shih emphasized that true leadership must generate both explicit and implicit value. Elements such as brand, talent, culture, trust, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), ecosystems, social impact, and long-term competitiveness, though difficult to quantify in the short term, often determine long-term success. Therefore, true management is not about short-term financial accounting, but about long-term total value accounting.

New WangDao also emphasizes resilience—not merely the ability to withstand crises, but the capacity to continuously create value amid change. True resilience stems from trust, co-creation, and balanced interests. New WangDao seeks not only efficiency but sustainable total value.

Shih concluded that future great leaders will not be merely efficient managers, but civilizational leaders capable of creating long-term total value. True leadership, he asserted, lies in balancing explicit and implicit interests to generate sustainable total value. (Edited by Lin Shu-Yuan)