by Lawrence Chong | Dec 17, 2013 | English, Ideas, Ideas for Organisation, Ideas for Strategy
(Đọc bài viết bằng Tiếng Việt) Profit is becoming the bad word of our age because corporations are seen as being obsessed about achieving higher margins at the expense of workers and society. Many people blame greed for being the cause of the corporation’s obsession...
by Lawrence Chong | Jul 30, 2013 | Ideas, Ideas for Organisation, News & Updates, Sri Lanka
These days, the Pope’s doing it and CEOs of major firms are all talking about it. The word is humility and it seems to be the new buzz word in business and management. Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric aptly sums up the necessity for humility, when he...
by Lawrence Chong | Jun 25, 2013 | Ideas, Ideas for Strategy, News & Updates, Press
The company is the basic unit of the free market economy so it has a direct role in shaping social norms and influencing change. If we want to see the rise of a better Asia, there is no better place to begin than with our companies. Large Asian firms such as TATA and...
by Consulus | Jun 18, 2013 | News & Updates, Press
(Đọc bài viết bằng tiếng Việt) The recent scandal about how the US government is conducting widespread data surveillance revealed another startling reality. From the incident, you can tell how far behind Asian companies are, when it comes to the technology of data and...
by Lawrence Chong | Aug 21, 2012 | Commerce, Ideas, Ideas for Organisation, TheColumnist
NASA made history this August when it landed Curiosity, the largest ever Mars rover, on the red planet. If just one thing had gone wrong in the ambitious landing sequence, which NASA itself dubbed the Seven Minutes of Terror, the mission would have failed, billions of...
