Career

The reason we work. Learnings from a hearse driver ( read off LinkedIn ). "You could be professionally correct, but being right does not...

“All I ever wanted was the freedom to make my own mistakes.” - Mance Rayder Some years back when we got into the advisory business as a...

The concept of ‘retiring early’ has always eluded me. Only recently did I decide to look at this from a quantitative and slightly whimsy...

I have been teaching financial modelling for over 5 years now. But at the first ever class held in July 2018, the delivery was so badly...

During the initial years of starting IJK, we contemplated the option of moving me from Singapore to...

I have never been much of a waterfront-living type of person, but the view of the Victoria harbour can be quite addictive. Quiet mornings...

Ownership is usually a bust unless your company is being fast-tracked to sell for big bucks.

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

It was 2011. The government debt crisis in the EU had reached a stage that required the bailout of several countries long thought to be...

For many, it is that time of the year again for festivities and holidays. However, it is also the time of the year for many companies to...

[Adapted from something I saw off the Internet recently.]

The Lamborghini brand sixty years ago was not known as the luxury car brand it is commonly associated with today. They were actually...

Management is: Get it done, follow-up, discipline, planning, analysis, facts, facts, facts. It’s [getting] the right people in the room,...

Reaffirming point #36 in my forty takeaways last year: Most of the people around me keep trying to tell me what's good for me or how I...

The last few weeks had been a huge tailspin for me. I relate it to a multitude of challenges compounded upon each other - first, the...

This is true for many investment banks. And people pay for complexity. But it's an odd world: Founders chasing publicity on social media,...

“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.” "The problem is that it can be really easy to overestimate the...

in starting up any business or career, one needs to first understand your role within the firm - are you a small gear or a large gear...

IB isn't just about getting through the gruelling late nights and delivering on the number crunching. It was also about the harsh and...

For most part of our education and up to university, we have been conditioned to conform and succeed. We have been constantly told and...