To have an intensive immersion in a world class business school environment, in a timely manner for the aspiring top executive, is a useful intervention to ensure impactful and effective leadership. Timely, in the sense that the requisite conditioning...
The global energy market dynamics will see Asia rising as the primary driver of the global demand growth in energy into the foreseeable future, with liquified natural gas (LNG) playing a pivotal role in meeting that energy need.
As a...
On anniversaries, we tend to make heroic vows and promises which we can't keep. Perhaps our intent is sincere and magnanimous but more often than not, we’ll find out on the anniversaries that follows that we are more disappointed...
Probably not many Malaysians have seen, let alone held in their hands, the original copies of the Malaysia Act 1963 and the Independence of Malaya Act 1957 — both laws enacted by The Parliament of the United Kingdom which...
Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases? – TK Naliaka, author
Since March 2020, our world has been turned upside down, thanks...
I am somewhat bemused by the word logjam. Here’s the story that triggered this present dalliance with the word.
Last Sunday, August 22, a friend from Sibu forwarded some pictures of the massive logjam on the Batang Baleh. It must...
No one disagrees that good leadership is key to organisational effectiveness and social and economic prosperity. But the one-million-dollar question is — what makes for a good leader?
If you were to ask Top HR professionals in global organisations what...
There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway. – Martin Henderson, New Zealand actor
I once watched an old film clip of a group of indigenous peoples navigating treacherous rapids deep in Borneo’s interior.
It was amazing...
THE attempt to understand human nature or the nature of the human being, has been a central focus of thinkers and philosophers for centuries, and the subject continues to provoke lively philosophical debates, continuing into modern times.
The rather timely...
TAKE A STEP BACK
Since it’s the Hari Kebangsaan month, I’d like to make the point that showing our patriotic duty can take many forms. The idea of “flying the flag” is not just hoisting the Jalur Gemilang on...
