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July 2017
What’s Your Dawn Wall?
It was still dark when Alex Honnold stepped out of his van dressed in his favourite red t-shirt and cutoff nylon pants. He slipped on a pair of sticky soled climbing shoes, fastened a small bag of chalk around his waist, found his first toehold, and at 5.32am on that early Saturday June 3rd morning, began inching his way up toward climbing history. At 9.28am – a mere 3 hours 56 minutes later - he pulled himself over the rocky summit of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and became the first solo climber to scale the 914m vertical granite wall without ropes or any safety harness. A feat known as free solo climbing.
May 2017
Products have no loyalty
There is no loyalty in products. We might think that a creatively original feature or perhaps some revolutionary technology would be needed to attract such a large number of users to a medium or platform. “Extraordinary achievements require extraordinary effort” is the principle we default to. In the digital media ecosystem, there isn’t a structure that prevents the mass movement of users between different mediums. Computers and mobile phones can store hundreds of apps which can be downloaded within seconds over high-speed internet. There is virtually no barrier for users to use multiple apps or migrate to a new medium altogether.
A concerted effort to address youth unemployment
A concerted effort to address youth unemployment Articles • May, 2017 Globally, youth unemployment remains a concern with youth unemployment rates surpassing national unemployment rates. [...]
How La La Land’s 3 Rules of Value Investing Just Overturned Everything We Know About Value
Is value investing all down to cold, hard science? It appears not when one looks at the success of the movie “La La Land”.
April 2017
Leadership: 3 keys to organisational success
A quick search on Google will bring you to a myriad (and possibly innumerable amount) of articles from a wide range of publishers. One thing in common that these articles highlight, which I believe is the crux, is of the subject of 'Leadership'. Of course, there are many models of leadership and there is no universal leadership go-to-solutions in leading a company. But of all things definite or indefinite, the effects of leadership can only go two ways: The success or eventual failure of your organisation.
With great power comes great responsibility
With great power comes great responsibility Articles • April 20, 2017 Too Fast Too Furious One of the biggest appeals of using technology is [...]
March 2017
What businesses can learn from the best game of 2017
What businesses can learn from the best game of 2017 Articles • March 29, 2017 As a long time gaming enthusiast, it is refreshing and inspiring when a [...]
Is scoring a string of As that important?
Is scoring a string of As that important? Articles • March 29, 2017 Students across the country received their 2016 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) results on 16th March 2017. [...]
FastCompany – 10 Lessons From 10 Years Of The World’s Most Innovative Companies
FastCompany - 10 Lessons From 10 Years Of The World's Most Innovative Companies Articles • March, 2017 Call me a sceptic. I admit [...]
October 2016
Productivity and the Ills of Slow Growth
Productivity and the Ills of Slow Growth Articles • October, 2016 Recently at a series of talks held jointly with Deloitte, I pursued Robert [...]
August 2016
Bloomberg: There’s No Such Thing as an Economic Miracle
Bloomberg: There's No Such Thing as an Economic Miracle The story of the tortoise and the hare has inherent moral lessons for kids. Perhaps what is less talked about is its application to corporate [...]
July 2016
4 Lessons from Underdogs
4 Lessons from Underdogs 4-lessons-from-underdogs I admit I get a thrill when minnows cause an upset. Although the Icelanders’ fairy tale eventually ended with a defeat to the French this morning (but the Welsh continue on [...]
January 2016
Business Insider: Top banker warns of looming wave of worldwide bankruptcies
Business Insider: Top banker warns of looming wave of worldwide bankruptcies This is perhaps one of the clearest article I've read on the issue that's on everyone's lips. In it William White, Chairman of [...]
December 2015
Bloomberg: OPEC Unity Shattered as Saudi-Led Policy Leads to No Limits
Bloomberg: OPEC Unity Shattered as Saudi-Led Policy Leads to No Limits The truth is “Size matters”. Small players with no real competitive advantages find themselves buffeted by macro-economic, tsunami-scale forces created by players that hold [...]
January 2015
The Gist of Leading Innovation: Problem Solver vs. Problem Finder
For the longest time, society has placed a high value on problem-solving abilities. We see this especially in our education system where students receive a problem statement and are asked to solve it based on [...]
August 2014
Effective Succession Management
Facing a business environment of continual change, succession management needs to be an integral part of the organisation's overall business strategy. It is no longer only the human resource strategy; it is critically connected to [...]
June 2014
How beer broke the bank
Despite the tough economy and rising living cost, Malaysia’s credit card usage is on the rise and there seems to be no stopping it. This is also in spite of the recent Global Survey of [...]
May 2014
Securing Our Socio-Economic Success
A recent study comparing economic growth in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) member and non-member countries found cognitive skills of their populations a significant predictor of socio-economic success. It also found that inadequate [...]
April 2014
Revolution of Assessment: Situational Judgement Test
A pile of CVs and interview notes spread across the table in front of you. You would need to spend time (shortest possible) to review each piece of the data, deciding who to process to [...]